Bo turns 5!

Well a little over a week ago Bo turned 5!!!  I still have a hard time saying that he’s 5. 5 is a BIG year…it marks the beginning of kindergarten in the fall, no more preschool, no more church setting school lessons, the opportunity to ride the school bus…eeek!!! Bo still asks every day if he’s big enough to ride the school bus, not sure how I’ll handle that when the time comes. We are starting a whole new phase of his little life, very bittersweet. 
On his actual birthday we were in Greenville with Jarrod’s family.  Bo loved waking up on his birthday at Lily and Josie’s house!!  He absolutely adores his cousins so this was perfect!  Aunt Kim had mini sweet rolls, which was definitely a treat for us.  Then he opened presents!!  We had already given him his present the Saturday before..he got a big boy bike!  He loves it!  Since he got that before his birthday we had to have something else for him to open so after a long search for the bike (long story) we made another trip back to toys r us to get him a “real” Star Wars Light Saber, yep he thinks it’s real!  He also got a Star Wars action figure.  He’s really getting into Star Wars, which daddy loves…mom, well I’m just glad God gave me a girl :)
We all came back home that afternoon where we had a surprise waiting for him.  My sweet friend Jasmin helped me get balloons for the mailbox.  What she didn’t tell me is that they also made Bo a Happy Birthday Banner for the yard!  We absolutely, positively have the most amazing friends!  Everyone has been so wonderful offering to help us out, help with kids, etc… with all that we’ve had going on with Jarrod’s dad. Jarrod has spent most of the past 3 weeks in Greenville and our friends have made that much easier on us.  A huge thank you to everyone!!!  Unfortunately it was super windy here on his birthday so the big 5 balloon popped and the sign split in two, but he still loved it!!  He felt so special which is exactly what we wanted!  We also made homemade pizzas that night, his of course being an angry bird and we had a small cake to celebrate.  He had a great day…lots of fun!
   

Playing with Uncle Jay…I’m not sure who has more fun when these two get together…they crack me up!

 

I’m 5!!!

 
 
 

This is from when I took treats for his class party!

Birds the word!!

I have been horrible, horrible about putting up posts.  With facebook and text messages I hardly ever take pictures off my camera anymore.  Anyone you want to show pics you can just send them at the exact moment, even Bo will ask me to take a picture and send it to one of his friend’s moms haha!  So I apologize!  However, when it comes to posting lots of pictures this is still the easiest way to get them out to everyone.
Anyway, he wanted an Angry Birds party, his latest obsession.  I’ll be honest, I’d be a-ok if I never saw another angry bird for a very long time, but…he loves them so we just go with it.  He also wanted a bowling party.  I researched a little bit and found a great bowling alley not too far from us.  Before I agreed to it, I made a visit to see what it was like.  From my experience bowling alleys aren’t exactly the nicest, cleanest places!!  I was pleasantly surprised..very clean, kid friendly, all of the staff were fantastic and to top it off their party prices were great…if you haven’t thrown a kids birthday party lately you would be SHOCKED at what these things can cost and let’s face it…I don’t do little parties!!  Parties are my thing and Jarrod has just learned to let me do it.  I will say I didn’t do that much for this one at all.  It was fun the kids had a blast…they got to bowl for an hour, eat pizza and cake and then each got 8 tokens to go play games if they wanted afterwards.  Happy Birthday to our sweet, precious, full of life and love little boy!  We love you more than you will ever know!

I made the plates by printing off the Angry Bird and Pig faces and gluing them on to plain paper plates. 

When it was time to eat we put the food on clear plastic plates on top so the birds

would still show through, but the wouldn’t be eating on glue and cardstock :)

I made the goody bags the same way I did the plates (lots of cutting and gluing for this party! 

And yes, each child was sent home with

their very own slingshot…so far I still have all my friends!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ramps were great for the kids!

Aiden, Bo, Baret, and Jacob..the four of them were on one lane it was hysterical!

Bo and Baret

 

 

 

This was guess the angry birds eggs…they were large

gumballs and the kid closest got to take them all home!

Believe it or not there were 71 in there!!

 

 

 

 

Bo was Jungle Manager last week so he got to bring the class mascot, M&M

home over the weekend.  Bo was so excited to take him to his party!

 

 

 

 

 

  

Best friends…Charlotte & Maggie

Sweet William

 

Who’s the bigger kid in this picture??
 

I wish you could have seen me trying to get daddy to leave!!  It took about 5 tries!

 

Elmo & Superman

We had such a great time this year for Halloween.  We had two classics…an Elmo and Superman!  They both were as precious as could be.  It was even  more fun for me because I made Charlotte’s costume, which was a lot of fun and it was a hit!  Last night we went to the preschool for Trunk or Treat and people we didn’t even know were stopping us to take Charlotte’s picture because they thought she was so cute!!  The kids had a blast.  We met some good friends and their little boy Aiden, who is also one of Bo’s best friends…these two love each other and had a BLAST!!!!  It’s so fun to see him really get into things especially when he’s with a friend.  And boy were they on a mission..there was no doubt why they were there..CANDY!!!!!!!!!!  Charlotte and I went a little slower, she would wave every time she went up to a car and as they handed her candy she’d say “ta tu”, gotta say it was pretty darn adorable!  Afterwards the boys went to the bounce houses and went crazy.  We wrapped things up there and then came back to the neighborhood where we all hit up the neighbors houses.  Again, boys were in full candy mode!  Charlotte loved it and tried keeping up with the older boys.  She walked the entire way!!!  There was no stopping this girl!  Later we all got home and the kids curled up with daddy to eat some candy and watch Charlie Brown.  We couldn’t have had a better night! 

Aiden, Bo, Charlotte, and Colin

 

 

The only picture we got of the boys…they were clearly there to get as much candy as possible…we couldn’t keep up!

 

 

 

Superman on the Super Slide!

 

Bo with a mouthful of candy!

“Daddy can you open more candy?”

 

  one worn out bunch!