Saturday, May 14, 2011

Clay's 11th Birthday Party

We celebrated Clay's upcoming birthday early again this year since his actual birthday is after school is out. I wanted to pare the partying cost down and Clay wanted a slumber party. Perfect combination once I limited the number of friends he could invite to three.

Clay wanted a homemade cake instead of a store bought one, so I made him the chocolate cake with cream cheese icing that he likes so much. And instead of buying a bunch of junk food and trinkets to send home in treat bags, I had Bruce buy and cut a bunch of PVC pipes and organize kits for the kids to make their own marshmallow shooter guns.

The boys played for hours outside with those guns after being briefly distracted by this monster crawdad they found in the creek that runs alongside our yard.





Bruce doesn't know how not to be a kid and join in the fun. But that's part of why I married him!







Clay disappeared inside for a few minutes and then came outside with this taped holster device.



Allison got tired of the shooting and just decided to snack on the ammo.

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