8.2.11: Taylor's Birthday Party

So we had to drive from California to Utah on August 3rd, Taylor's actual birthday, so we had a little party on the 2nd. We've decided to do 'friend' parties starting at age 5 and having them only on the odd birthdays (5,7,9...) so this was our first experience with a friend party. I think we pulled it off.

I baked a chocolate cake and thankfully my MIL decorated it for me. I did make the superhero little flags :) Taylor thought it was awesome!


We raided my MIL's closet and found a crown for him to wear. Lara made all the kids black superhero masks to take home- they were so cute!

Playing a velcro superhero game.

'The girls' One of Matt's good friends from high school still lived in the area and has three girls.. all about 6 months older than our boys. We hung out with them quite a bit while we were there.

L* taking her turn at the spiderman pinata

the loot

blowing out the candles

L* and Taylor

*most of the kids at the party showing off their Iron Man stance*

I didn't get a picture of one of the games we played but I had 'bad guys' send all the kids a note that said the superheors were captured. They had to run around adn find the clues around the yard and finally the last clue said the super heros were 'frozen in time.' So we ran to the freezer and there was batman, 2 spidermans and iron man frozen in water. The kids got to break them free with a hammer. Everyone wanted to play that one over and over again- not easy when it takes a while for water to freeze.

Taylor got the Iron Man mask and repulsor from his dad and I- it was a big hit!

Bray being Iron Man and L* wearing the spiderman pinata's legs

Tay refused to take pictures without the mask on. We sure love our little Iron Man!