5th Birthday Party!!!

We celebrated Wyatt's 5th birthday on Friday with a little party at our house. This was our first experience doing an actual party with kids. I was a little nervous about figuring out how to entertain 15 kids, so we decided to host the party outside where there was plenty to do.

I hired our babysitter to come over and help out with the party since John was going to still be at work. I bought a face paint kit and Emmy spent almost 2 hours painting the kids faces. She did a great job too, especially considering that it was her first time doing any kind of face painting and her subjects were so pumped up on sugar and candy that they could barely sit still!


I also organized a cookie decorating craft project for the party. I made a few batches of sugar cookies and had the kids decorate them. We set up picnic tables outside and gave each table a jar of frosting, some knives, and cookie decorations and then sat back and let the kids go to town. They LOVED it!


Then we had a treasure hunt. I bought gold foil covered chocolate candies and Emmy hid them in the green space next to our house. Then she took the kids to find all of the coins. It took forever! Finally I went and asked Emmy why it was taking so long and she told me that after she threw the coins all around on the grass it got really windy and the leaves were making it very hard to spot the candies! The kids all loved the treasure hunt.
For dinner we had pizza and bread sticks and a veggie tray. And then we enjoyed the Costco cake that Wyatt picked out himself (it couldn't be more girly if he tried!). When all of the kids were singing Happy Birthday to Wyatt he acted really shy and embarrassed. Then the funniest thing happened. As soon as all of the kids got done singing, Wyatt's friend Quinn blew out the candles on Wyatt's cake before anybody realized what was about to happen. Wyatt was sad, but the rest of us couldn't stop laughing! We re-lit them all and he got to blow out his own candles the second time around without any help!

Finally we opened gifts and sent everybody home with a treat bag full of goodies! It was a lot of fun and I LOVED how all of the mess was outside and I didn't have to worry about getting it all cleaned up immediately!

The kids went straight to bed and were literally EXHAUSTED beyond belief! They didn't even hear Grandma and Grandpa arrive later that night! Actually, I was exhausted beyond belief that night too! It was all worth it though when I got to see my little 5 year old boy with a big smile on his face and I knew that I helped put it there!!!