Fun to be 5!

Yesterday was finally time for the boys 5th birthday we've been planning at our house. This year Zaden wanted Batman and Zaric wanted Spiderman so we combined the two and went with a comic-book approach. We started out over the last few weeks making some fun decor. I made this fun pennant banner out of copied comic book pages.

 

And we made some copies of comic book covers and framed them around the house.

Mike made some water bottle wraps and an awesome invite (sorry, not pictured).

 

Of course I also bought a few things. Like these fun banners and balloon decorations.

Zaden insisted on sloppy joe's for the party, so we went with that and made these fun chip cones out of copies comic book pages as well to go along with them.

And for goody bags each kid got a comic book and a Spiderman or Batman Pez dispenser.

Zaric insists it's not a party if you don't have balloons so I ran out in the morning to get some. They made the perfect center piece for the food island.

And I left the cakes up to Harmon's who did a great job.

When I first brought the cakes home the twins just sat next to them for about 20 minutes. When I asked what they were doing I was told. "watching the cakes." I'm glad I hired security for those things. They were too excited. It was super cute.

We got dressed, had a snack (see messy face below) and got ready to party!

As soon as all the guests arrived we rushed out to play our game. Somehow the Spiderman and Batman Villains had gotten taped to our fence in the back yard and needed some crime-stopper help. I armed them all with cans of silly string and we did some warm up exercises and they were off.

Of course it degraded slightly to getting each other and my nephew Taylor, but he was a good sport as always.

 

After some more play time, it was time to open presents. They got so much fun stuff and loved it all.

 

Their favorites were the remote control Spiderman 4-wheeler and the remote control Batman from Mom and Dad.

 

Then it was time for cake and ice cream.

Then more play time with friends and cousins while the adults visited and had a good time together. Faith cuddled up to Taylor and showed us all just how tiring and fun this party really was.

It was a really great day and a really great party. We followed it up with going to do a little shopping with Papa for more presents and then taking them out to dinner with just our little family to end the night. Thanks to everyone that came and enjoyed with us. The twins are super happy and are already loving being 5!