Batman Party!

Blake's 4th birthday!

A couple of days before his birthday he got this headband at preschool.

I worked a long time on this cake even though it doesn't look like it. Blake liked it so that's all that mattered.

He is really into riding bikes lately so Bryan and I got him a new bike. He rides it all the time.

We had a friends party for Blake this year and counting Ty and Blake we had 11 kids here. A lot of my sister in laws and Bryan's brother Cory stayed around to help besides having Bryan and I. I know for sure I couldn't have pulled it together without all their help.

Each kid made a superhero mask when they got to the party.

Musical Chairs

Bryan and I stayed up the night before blowing up (don't worry we had a air compressor helping) about 150 balloons to fill in this little storage room. I put prizes on the floor and let them go in and find a prize. We invited some of Blake's younger cousins which was way fun but it's hard to explain to them to wait a turn or let it be someone else's turn so instead of having them take turns with other kids I had a few kids that really never left the room. I didn't care though because the little ones just wanted to play in the balloons so it didn't really matter anyway.

I think the hightlight for a lot of the kids was shooting the "joker". We dressed Bryan up as the joker and let the kids shoot him with silly string.

Blake getting the "joker" with silly string. Some of the little kids were a little nervous at first but when they knew it was Bryan they went after him.

Ok so I know that isn't batman but Blake was excited about the spiderman pinata we found so we went with that. What kid doesn't like a pinata?

Lily with her superhero mask on. She had it on the whole party!

Blake is really into blowing out his candles- what 4 year old isn't? And my little nephew who is 2 1/2 isn't old enough to understand that he doesn't get to blow out the candles and started going to town on Blake's cake. I saw it coming but thought Blake would beat him to it and it wouldn't be a problem, but it was. Poor Blake started to cry so we lit them again and he got to blow them out.

Opening presents

He did get to blow out his candles at Grandma Palmers house later that day with the whole family. I didn't feel like making another cake so we just bought one.
My parents came Sunday and I loved this picture of my boys with Blake's present. Stockton really wanted to get in on the action.