What May Be Boring To You Is Life To Us: Xavier turned 4

I'll write about it tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, well finally for a birthday party that was on the 9th to celebrate a birthday on the 8th, tomorrow is today.

This little boy of ours sure loves himself some dinosaurs so what would make more sense than to have a dinosaur birthday party. It was something he couldn't quite decide on for a while. I would let him look around pinterest with me at times to see if anything looked like a fun birthday party theme. For the most part all I think that did was make the decision making process harder. Everything was cool & that made him change his mind more & more. Finally mommy had to put her foot down & say, Son, you like dinosaurs so I think a dino party would be great. His response, "ok."

So simple I don't know why we as parents stress about these things that we are teaching our children to stress about. It's a party to celebrate your birth it's not suppose to be stressful it's suppose to be fun & that's what I tried to make it. Thank the Lord that he gave us amazing weather to work with for the second weekend in March. We had his birthday party all set up at the local boy scout camp. They have the most amazing pavilion & playground for the kids to run out all that energy. Since we were having it somewhere that wasn't our house this year I knew I couldn't do much with decorations so I decided to try my best to stick the dinosaur theme to the food. Wandered around pinterest some more & found some great ideas. His original cake was going to be in the shape of a dinosaur but mommy made the cake a little too moist & the icing just didn't do anything except make the cake crumble. I started to stress out about it but Skip reminded me that they were kids and that Xavier never knew about the dino shaped cake so he'd be just as happy with cupcakes. Luckily I had picked up some small dinosaurs to stick on top of cupcakes in case that was the route I decided to take in the first place. I guess deep down I knew cupcakes were the easier, kid friendly way to go :)

So trying to stick with the dinosaur theme through the food worked out pretty well I believe. Everyone seemed to enjoy it especially the birthday boy. Here are a few pictures of the food but of course I know you want to see more pictures of the party & you can do that over here at our photo page

And what kind of party would it be without
some awesome dino hats for the kiddos

some yummy chicken wings disguised as "pterodactyl wings" and
some grapes , uh I mean "dinosaur eggs" and we washed it all down with
some "swamp water" which for some reason the store calls hawaiian punch