Weston's 9th Birthday

Weston turned 9 years old this year! His birthday was on a Thursday. I decided to make him a birthday breakfast since he's obsessed with bacon. I made bacon and eggs and almond poppyseed muffins with chocolate milk. He loved it. We let him open his presents that morning too. He was so excited to get several DS games and a DS accessories kit, a couple nice new shirts, a Lego set, and a basketball! 

He headed off to school happily. His birthday happened to be on the day that they had their read-a-thon. I brought him Carl's Jr. for lunch at school. That afternoon he played his new DS games with his friends. He had scouts that evening and took cookies to share. After scouts he came home and we had his birthday dinner, which was spaghetti with mizithra. I think he had a pretty awesome day.

Friday night was Weston's big birthday party. We went with a Nerf war party. We had it at the church and it was really fun and easy to put together. Ian designed his invitations. Mel and Brad came and helped us with the party. Thank you to Mel for her mad crepe paper skills! We got all set up and Ian brought the pizza and cake. Just in time for the kids to start showing up!

We started with food. The boys ate pizza and chips and grape Gatorade. When they were done eating we told them about the Nerf blow dart guns they were going to make. They spent a little time putting together their guns and decorating them with electrical tape. We made them all wear safety glasses too. Luckily they thought they were cool.

Ian started them off with target practice to get the hang of shooting their guns. We only gave each kid one dart so they had to go get it back before they could shoot again. After the boys were sufficiently warmed up we started the next game. 

The boys were divided up into two teams. There were chairs set up facing each other with Lego minifigures on them. The teams had to try to hit the other team's Lego guys off the chair. They couldn't take guns into the middle of the war zone. The boys were so funny at the beginning of the game. They started all chanting "World War 3! World War 3!" 8 and 9 year old boys are super weird.

When the war was over we collected all the dart guns and let Weston open his presents. He got lots of fun gifts and cash! My favorite moment at the party was when Weston finished opening his presents and his friends all mobbed him for a group hug. :)

After presents we did cake. The kids all thought Weston's Seahawks cake was the coolest. This was just a week before the Seahawks played in the Superbowl. I'm glad that we went with a big Sam's Club cake because there really wasn't much left at the end of the night. 

While the kids were eating cake Ian and Brad put up some cardboard box shelters. After cake we spent the rest of the party playing an all out Nerf war. The boys had a blast and it was pretty low key for me. Ian took over during the Nerf activities. The kids each got to take home their blow dart gun, their safety glasses and 3 darts. Such a fun, successful birthday party! I love my biggest boy Weston! Happy Happy Birthday dude!