Gavin Is Growing UP

Our oldest turned 6 Saturday and lets face it, a birthday would not be a birthday with out birthday cereal.
In preparation for the obligatory cereal picture Gavin prepped to make sure that all things were in order.

Look alive Gavin!

Trix is fruitalicious. It says so on the box.

We used the movie UP for our theme this year.

The house, while it is functioning and was put together by yours truly, was annoying to make.
However, it is loved by the kids and they are super excited to play with it.
I think it will probably last 3 days until they break it.
Time well spent. (insert sarcasm)

We also made Ellie pins for all of the kids.

Gotta show my support.
It helps the kids feel better about us coming at them with sharp objects if we can smile after we have put one on ourselves.

An UP cake. Not made by me.

We decided that we would have the kids pop balloons in order to make a sentence...kind of like hangman. In retrospect this may not have been the smartest thing. The kids were already loud and then add popping balloons to the mix and we had a mad house. On the other hand though, it took about 30 minutes for them to do it.

They also got to make their own Kevins. I would like to believe that Canon's Kevin in no way reflects on his personality, four eyes no feathers no body and all, but I think I am out of luck on that one.

There was a blowing out of a candle.

Wait for it....

wait....

wait....

Huh. That was anticlimactic.

Penny was a good sport.

The presents were opened.

Kids have an uncanny ability to not know what "personal space" is.

Look at them all jammed into a little corner.

After the party was over we went outside to let balloons go.

With all the fun going on outside we forgot to unlock the door. So when someone closed the front door we realized much to our chagrin that we were locked out of the house and that Penny was sitting in the kitchen. So Blake did the only thing he could think of.

He went all sorts of Jean Claude Van Damme on the back door.

It was still a good birthday.