Birthday Parties

Well, after the dilemma and search to find a place to hold birthday parties for both Caleb & Joel - we had HUGE SUCCESS! On Saturday morning we surprised the kids when they came home (they had spent Friday night with Grandpa Billy & Jo at the hotel!) with a Play Station 2. (I know most of you are saying are you kidding - why feed the addiction - to which I can say talk to my husband!!!) Although it was a refurbished system and used games the kids were SO excited and loved it!! (As you can tell from the picture).

Now for the parties - we started with Caleb. We had his party at a park that had a spray park and a playground beside each other. He wanted a "Transformers" theme complete with a Transformer's Pinata! (I don't know why because he doesn't own a transformer nor has he seen the movie but that is what he wanted!) The only "hiccup" we had was when we got there the water was not on. Now I had researched and new that the water was supposed to be on until September 30th and we had the party on the 20th. After several attempts to get it to turn on, I hollered at Craig and he found a number and called the city. Now we had a spray park in Sugar Land and you rubbed the post to get the water to come on - but in Frisco you just hold your hand down on the post and sure enough the water comes on - YEAH. The kids had a great time in the water, playing in the park, and with the pinata! Caleb had 10 kids come (8 boys and 2 girls) which we thought was an EXCELLENT turn out since we had only been in Frisco 5 weeks and only in school for 3. (Poor Christian was not allowed a hit because he demolished Joel's pinata last year with one swing! But he was a GREAT help at both parties!).


We then headed over to McDonald's for Joel's party. We had a little harder time there because our party was scheduled for 5:00 but when we got there at 4:50 there was still a party going on. The management said oh they will be out in 5 minutes. But at 5:00 we saw the cake and ice cream go back so we knew it wasn't going to be over real soon. (It really bothered me because when I booked the party they said 5:00 was the earliest we could book a party on Saturdays.) But the staff came through and cleaned another area and got us going. Joel had the majority of his class come to his party. He was very confused that his teacher Mrs. Hodges was not there since most of his class was! I tactfully explained to him that Mrs. Hodges could not attend all 18 of their birthday parties plus she has a family of her own. I don't think he liked it but he FINALLY quit asking why she wasn't there. This was Joel's first kid party (not just a family party) so he had a GREAT TIME!

It was a VERY LONG day for the adults and the kids as well as you can see from this picture of Joel sleeping on the way home!

Stay tune we have our first Green Gator Flag Football game this Saturday so I am sure I will have many great pictures and FUNNY stories to tell!

These are just some additional pictures. (I love this one of my mom and Joel swinging - Christian took it and I think it is cool how you can see their shadows as well.)