Dallas 7th Birthday

Dallas turned 7 on the 7th of December.  It was time for some Golden Birthday fun.  I saw many fun and cute ideas out in internet land fo golden birthdays, and I wanted to execute them all.  Then I reigned myself in and asked Dallas to see what he wanted.  Well, he wanted four parties, and party with some friends, a party to have all of his football team over to play football, a party with family and a playdate.  Hosting a friend party has some tricky timing during busy December.  We managed to get a couple of friends and half of his football team to be available in one 2 hour period, which I consider a sucess.  God smiled on us brave parents hosting boys for two hours and he gave us wonderful weather.  See the green grass.  We played a bit while everyone was arriving at our house, had pizza and orange gatorade, and then we gathered everyone up and walked to the park for some flag football, and an impromptu flag pulling version of freeze tag on the play equipment.  

Boys eating pizza (I did get a little themey and decorated with a green footbal table cloth and football napkins)

 After a bit of time at the park we walked back home for cupcakes. This is where I didn't think the boys would be all that impressed with fancy cupcakes.  So I made boxed funfetti cupcakes. I put a couple bowls of frosting on the table and then filled our muffin tin with a ton of leftover halloween candy I had chopped up.  Activity and dessert all in one.  They decorate, they eat.  Two boys opted for only candy no cupcake!

After the sugar, Dallas opened presents.  It was a bit crazy at this point.  Some guests were trying to open his presents for him, and the level of noise in the house was exceeding my eardrum capacity.

After presents, which were: Legos, Star Wars themed action figures and art set, Connect Four and more legos. We still had 20 minutes before parent pick up time.  Bless my husband, he found a Lego Super Hero show on Netflix and saved our house from falling around the football wrestling.
It was all worth it, but wow.  Boy parties are different from girl parties.


The following day we had family over.  Dallas described his cake wishes to the DQ people and they did a great job.

 On Monday, his actual birthday he went out to breakfast with Dad.

 After breakfast Robert introduced Dallas to his someday future go-kart that we have been hiding in our storage garage.

 Monday also happens to be our Classical Conversations school day, so after breakfast Robert dropped Dallas off with me for our morning of classes.

 We capped off birthday day fun with some presents from the girls and us, and his requested meal. Jimmy Johns #2 with no tomatos to eat in the living room in front of the tv!