Camden's Minecraft Party

Saturday we had Camden's 9th birthday party.  It was...a Minecraft party.  

Brian made a Toss the Creeper game for me! 

 

I painted Minecraft t-shirts again this year.  I also made a Creeper cake too.  

The Creeper cake. 

I put on one of Camden's Minecraft t-shirt for the party.  He said I wore pink for Ella, so I should wear Minecraft for his.

Last minute, Camden's laptop wouldn't re-boot!  I ran over to Grandma's and borrow hers. 

The kids played for 45 minutes. 

Then we played 3 rounds of Minecraft BINGO, the kids loved it! 

We played Toss the Creeper. 

It was fun, Brian did a good job! 

Finally it was time for cake and ice cream. 

Yum 

On to Presents, a lot of Mincraft things! 

He did very good remembering his manners and thanking everyone. 

After the party was done the kids raced back to play more Minecraft until the parents came to pick them up.

Ella's Pretty Pink Party!

All 3 kids had their own birthday parties this weekend.  Ella's was first on Friday with 2 friends spending the night.  She was so excited! 

Her pink party table... 

Ella asked Camden to come to her party, BUT she said he had to wear pink too!  Erik was not invited but enjoyed a sleepover at his Grandma's!

Ella waiting for her friends in her pink party dress and hat! 

Uncle John and Daddy playing Wii Dance Party with the girls.  Good thing I put shorts on Ella under her dress, huh? 

Tuckered out girls!  The 2nd girls finally arrived and we ate pizza and had cake! 

Love this face looking at her Daddy! 

Yum. 

We played a few party games.

Ella loved her gifts and all the American Girl stuff! 

The girls played American Girls all night! 

I put them to bed watching a movie in the family room. 

The next morning the girls played art until their parents came to pick them up.  It was a crazy, no sleep, but fun overnight party!

 

No More Teeth!

So Camden and I trudged back to the dentist again, to get 2 more teeth pulled after a visit to the orthodontist!  His asked Grandma Jill to come with this time!  Grandma is very comforting and calm in medical situations (unlike me who plasters herself against the wall and talks 100mph!) 

Camden and Grandma did great!  Camden did try to jump out of the dentist chair in a moment of panic right before the extraction, but I got him back in quick enough!  Poor guy! 

He received 2 tokens from each tooth and spent them all on the little bouncy balls; he has a sandwich baggie full of them now! 

Back to Alderson Grandparents for love and Minecraft!  Camden was spoiled again with not only mac and chesse, but cantaloupe and cookies too!

We stopped for some groceries on the way home and Camden chose a stuffed horse to give to Ella at her birthday party.  (He ended up picking the pink one because she is having a Pink Party!) 

Apparently our neighbor's kitten was very thirsty!  He jumped in the van while we were in the house unloading the groceries!  Luckily he is very friendly and jumped right of the van when we called him.  Unfortunately, he ran straight into the house because Camden had the door open a little bit!  I was able to close the bedroom door before our cat Sarah caught on, but man, did she sniff around his trail for the next hour!

Cub Scout Pinewood Derby

We attended the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby last weekend and all 8 Tigers were there!  We got our first full Den picture!  Erik is in the middle in the front row. 

The Bowlsby Grandparents came to watch the kids race their cars. 

Camden did really well handling the disappointment that his car was very slow. 

The cars raced on! 

Erik had fun watching his car race for the first year as an actual Cub Scout! 

As Awards/Advancement Chairperson, I got to handle giving out the awards.

Brian's car won 2nd in Speed overall, Ella's won 3rd speed in the Open Class.  Erik won 2nd place for Speed in his Age Group and Camden won People's Choice for his car design! 

L to R, Ella's car, Erik's Car and stand he made, and Camden's car and People's Choice Trophy 

I misread the car number and actually awarded the trophy to Erik at the Race instead of  Camden!Camden was bummed at the race, but I was SO proud of his sportsmenship.  He was very happy to display his "winning car" on the trophy after I made the correction!

I want my OWN Room!

TA-DA! 

The twins had been asking for their OWN room for a while now.  We do not want to move to a 4 bedroom house right now, so we improvised!  I bought 2 bookshelves and hung a fabric wall to divide the room! 

Now this is the view one twin gets at bedtime, his OWN stuff!  No more looking at each other faces, and no more twins getting into each other's personal stuff!

They still share their office wall and we have a shared library bookshelf as well. (Most of their toys are stored under their beds and all the games are in the linen closet. 

Speaking of new, here is my new comforter I got for Christmas with my new bed skirt!

LOVE IT!

From Four to More

Erik started off his Cub Scout year with me as his Tiger Den Leader and 4 boys. 

They were very fun to lead, but given the choice, Erik decided he wanted the 2 dens of four to be 1 den of 8 boys!  This also meant that his Den Leader is Casey now!  

Only 6 of the boys are pictured here!  Good thing Casey runs a daycare, she has plenty of room for 8 boys in her house! 

At this meeting they learned about the American Flag.  I just got a picture at the Pinewood derby with all 8 boys, but I haven't uploaded it yet...