Anson's 7th Birthday!

Yes, my oldest baby was born 7 years ago.  We have a beautiful birth mom who gave us a miracle.  I will ever be grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who blessed our family so abundantly with Anson.  Anson is full of life and has really blossomed since starting school.  We always knew he would do really well in school and it has been wonderful to see that happen.  He wanted to celebrate his birthday with a friend party.  I have stopped doing friend parties every year for my sanity.  So this was his friend year and he invited 7 boys including himself and Aaron.  Everyone came!  We only had 1 church friend and the rest were from school so it was a new experience for us.  Anson is big into Ben 10, not my favorite show but he loves it; luckily Party City was clearancing out of everything we needed.  We played a few games.  The first game as kids came was just to shoot down the aliens with these disks.  The second game was a  mummy wrap up; I guess in one episode a character turns into  mummy.  Here are a few pictures.

The next game was a 4 armed relay since one of the characters has 4 arms.  It actually turned out really cute.  I cut 2 extra holes in big t-shirts and two boys fit inside.  They had to race and stack cups.  Anson's team worked out well since he is so small the bigger boy could usually stand over and work.

Our new aunt has exposed us to pinatas and again it was clearanced at the store so we had a pinata of Ben 10.

To decrease my anxiety of the event we ordered a Ben 10 cake and Anson loved it.  Overall we had a great party.  My kids' parties always seem to bomb but we had a talking to prior to the event about Anson being a host and Aaron being a host helper to smooth everything over.  It worked well and the kids all participated and got a long great!  Whew!  Another party DONE!