Happy Birthday Austin

Austin is 5 years old! 

Birthdays are the BEST!  We love birthday parties in our house (who doesn't), and we spend days and weeks planning out the details of the anticipated event.  Austin has been telling me for weeks that he wanted a lego birthday party and his big idea was to invite LOTS of friends and spread legos out ALL OVER the entire house so everyone could play.  

We did something like that.

I've thrown a lot of birthday parties over the years.  With 4 kids 13, 11, 9 and now 5, I figured out that I've planned and put on 28 kid birthday parties.  I'm no expert, but I've learned a few tricks.  Things like scooping out the ice cream before the party and storing it in the the freezer like this.

There always needs to be a little activity or something for kids to do once they arrive, this coloring page was perfect for this group of 4 and 5 year olds.

Jared decorates amazing cakes and has done some really cool ones over the years, but lately I just use my cup cake stand and do something simple like this.  

Hunter made this super cool for dispenser for the party.  I love the creativity.

Here's another trick I learned this year while working at the preschool.  I had a stool in front of the sink which was filled with soapy water all ready for the kids to easily wash their hands after playing with play dough or when they got sticky from their ice cream and cupcakes.  

We played some fun games. 

And here they are playing legos.  It may not be quite what Austin had in mind, but he looks pretty happy.

When you have a lego party, everyone knows you like legos and that seemed to be the theme of the gifts.  Good thing Austin really likes legos.  He was thrilled!

Austin spent hours after the party putting together each lego set.  This was the first time he had a chance to follow the instructions step by step and make cool cars and ships and lots of other cool stuff.  He was in heaven.

A few fun Favorites:

Favorite dinner:  Homemade Macaroni & Cheese (That would be yours Tara!)

Favorite treat:  Spittle Babies (Sugar Babies)

Favorite thing to do:  ride bike around the block and ride on the teeter-totter at preschool.

Favorite movie:  Frozen, Olaf is so funny!

Favorite toy:  Legos and Hot Wheel cars and tracks

Favorite day:   Thursdays - He loves preschool and skittles math.

When I grow up:  "I want to be a taxi driver, til I'm tired of that and then I will be a train driver."

Austin predicts that someday he will have 6 kids, I kitten, and a pug. 

He also wanted me to write down that he thinks Emma is nice.