Noah turns 6!

Friday July 1st

My little boy turned 6 years old!

 Isn't he the cutest?

 Birthday breakfast

  He wanted a Pokemon themed birthday this year, even though we decided to have his party at Out of this World Pizza again.

 We learned from this year that we need to schedule his birthday parties much earlier (maybe end of June) because most people are gone in the beginning of July for the 4th of July holiday.  A lot of kids couldn't make it, but we are grateful for the kids who were able to come!

Noah loves having his party here and it makes it so much easier for me!  Win-Win!

 Grandma and grandpa came and also Uncle Jake, Aunt Meggin and cousins Celeste, Amelia and Hazel.  It's nice to have family close by!

 David and Gabe playing air hockey

 Paige and Mason with Porter looking on

 Kept it simple by buying chocolate cupcakes and adding Pokemon pictures to the cupcakes

Mason, Paige, Porter and Celeste

 Opening presents--Gabe, David and Noah

 Mason, David, Paige, Bella, Celeste, Noah, Amelia, Gabe and Porter

 We came back home and opened family presents.

 He got his Pokemon hat that he wears all the time!

 chima legos

and more Pokemon cards...among other things.

Noah's Annual Questionnaire:

1.  What is your favorite color:  Green

2.  What is your favorite toy:  Legos

3.  What is your favorite fruit:  grapes

4.  What is your favorite TV show:  Pokemon/Ninjago

5.  What is your favorite movie:  Planes 2  (not really...has only seen it once)

6.  What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch:  chicken nuggets or blueberry bagel with strawberry cream cheese

7.  What is your favorite t-shirt:  Ninjago

8.  What is your favorite game:  Spoons

9.  What is your favorite animal:  wolf

10.  What is your favorite snack:  goldfish crackers

11.  What is your favorite song:  Bleeding out (Imagine Dragons)

12.  Who is your best friend:  Ethan Brown and Cooper Jensen

13.  What is your favorite book:  Doesn't have one

14.  What is your favorite cereal:  Krave

15.  What is your favorite thing to do outside:  jump on trampoline

16.  What is your favorite drink:  apple juice

17.  What is your favorite holiday:  Christmas

18.  What do you like to sleep with at night:  stuffed animals and blankie

19.  What is your favorite thing for dinner:  spaghetti (basgetti)

20.  What do you want to be when you grow up:  Police officer

21.  What food do I NOT like:  broccoli

22.  What is something I do well:  being a helper

23.  What is something I need to practice:  riding a bike with pedals

24.  My favorite place to go:  Chuck E. Cheese

25.  My favorite family activities:  camping

26.  My favorite thing about home: watching TV

27.  My favorite chore is:  Vacuuming

28.  My least favorite chore: dusting

29.  A Place I want to visit:  Mexico

30.  My favorite part of the day:  Playing outside

Bella's Frozen Party

I thought I would post about Bella's birthday party and then do a random "May" post after.

We had her friend party on May 9th in the afternoon.  That way I had the kids there to help me with the party after they got home from school. 

 This was her invitation

 Here are some of the decorations.  'Frozen' is still really popular and trying to find decorations in the store and online was really hard.  Most all of the stuff was sold out, so I improvised with various winter decorations. 

This hanging "snow" was just cotton balls on a string.  My sister Megan used this idea for a winter theme for her kids at Christmas time.  I thought it was really cool and fairly easy to put together. 

 Hanging snowflakes

 I found this Frozen poster at Wal-Mart and it's now hanging on her closet door.

 The first thing we did while everyone was arriving was to color pictures of Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf.  Bella loves to color to she really wanted to have coloring pages. 

 Bella, Ji-Su and Lindsey

 Bella, Ji-Su, Lindsey, Addy, Lauryn and Paige.  One girl wasn't able to come and one (Brooklyn) was a little bit late. 

 Then we stopped to have snacks.  We had carrot sticks, pretzel sticks and pirate booty. 

I forgot to mention that both Paige and Noah are dressed in white because they wanted to be "Olaf" so that was how they dressed up as Olaf.  Cute!

 Next we did an art project, which I thought was pretty cool.  I boiled some Epsom salts in water for a couple of minutes and then let it cool.  They I gave them each some black construction paper and a paintbrush and had them paint a scene or whatever they wanted. 

 Making their designs

  some of the finished products...

 they each did 2 and had a lot of fun!

Then we played 'Pin the nose on Olaf'. Lydia drew Olaf.  She's so talented!

Bella's turn

 They all somehow managed to place their noses right on top of the last person's nose.  They must've been able to see under the bandana.

 Our next game was called "Snowman Slam".  I put snowman faces onto plastic cups and found little balls with snowman faces on them at Oriental Trading.  It was pretty much knocking down the cups with the balls. 

 Bella trying to knock down the snowmen.

 The next game was a type of "Minute to Win it" game.  They had to see how many marshmallows they could pick up with chopsticks in a minutes time.  In this picture above, they are playing with their cups and chopsticks before we began. 

Most of the kids didn't know how to use chopsticks, so they ended up poking the marshmallows with their sticks.  Some only got 6-10 and others got close to 30 or so...if they counted correctly.  :)

Our last game was "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"  It wouldn't be a Frozen party if we didn't build a snowman.  This first picture was me trying to get these girls under control so they would listen to what we were doing.  They were slightly hyper. 

 Then we were trying to get divided up into 3 teams.  

   One person would be the snowman and the other(s) would build the snowman.  This was Bella and Lindsey.  Brooklyn was on their team, too.  Each team was given a roll of toilet paper and had to wrap the toilet paper around the snowman.  They were supposed to use the whole roll, but some of them were going so slow and the girls are so little that some of the teams didn't even use the whole roll. 

 Paige and Lauryn with Noah giving encouragement.

 Addy, Ji-Su and Lydia. 

 Lindsey, Brooklyn and Bella. 

 Finishing up their wrapping.

 Not sure what they are doing.  :)  Just kidding.  I'm sure it was tricky for them.  The other teams had Paige and Lydia who were a bit older. 

 When they were done, they had to dress the snowmen with scarves, hats and buttons.  This is Addy.

 Bella's team

And Miss Lauryn

 Then it was time for cake.  I made Olaf.  I thought he turned out cute. 

 Isn't she cute?

Present time!

 First a picture of all the party guests.

 And that was the end of her party. 

Later that evening, we let Bella open our presents.  We usually do that on their actual birthdays, but we were on our cruise then. 

 I love these pictures because she has the best expressions!  I knew she was going to be so happy with these presents because she's been really wanting these toys. So, I was taking continuous pictures and deleted most of them, but I caught some great ones.  She's so funny!

She got some of her own Lego Friends, some Frozen Barbie dolls--Kristoff and Anna, and the Anna baby doll. 

And that was the end of her birthday celebrations.