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Look Who's 5!!

Party Prep...Collin is currently OBSESSED with Mario aka Super Mario Brothers. I am going to thank his beautiful cousin Kenzie for introducing him-lol! So needless to say he wanted a Mario party-of course he told me this after I had hired a magician and sent out a "magic"invitation. Not to worry! Mama loves planning birthday parties and what you want is what you get (if possible-lol).

We decided this year in an effort to save money that we would have the party at home. I found a magician that would pretty much run the party so the kids would be occupied the whole time and hopefully not tear the place down! I guess I didn't realize that his list of friends had expanded to such a large number! He has been in preschool technically for 3 years but this is the first year that he has really become attached to his school friends. So attached that he wanted to invite the entire class!! I tried to talk him into just the boys but the idea of not inviting the girls was unacceptable to Collin =*) I tried to limit it to just his "best" friends but that ended up being close to the entire list. So with his class and our playgroup that was the guest list and way more than I had anticipated in our little house. But, we will make it work!

Since we had the magician all we needed to worry about was food, cake and decorations. I decided to keep it to light snacks on the food because we wouldn't have room for everyone to eat. Eating cake would be fun enough with 30+ little crumb crunchers!

This year was very different because we now have 2 birthdays within 10 days of eachother so January was party central at our house! I was crazy busy so I had to let go of a couple of things, one being the cake. I had a bunch of fabulous ideas, but had to settle on the "shortcut" since party time snuck up on me! On top of that my favorite cake maker was on vacation so it was up to me to make the magic happen! FYI...next year I will be party planning around Dianne's vacation schedule!

I ended up ordering a cake from Giant Eagle with very specific instructions. It always scares me to put my trust in someone I don't even know to come through! I know, I know, it's just a cake but to me it is the centerpiece of the party. So, I would pick it up the day of the party and add my own special touches. Fingers crossed. I was going to make the cupcakes look like the Mario mushrooms but also cheated on those. I had Sams Club make those because I knew they had the bright primary colors of icing that I wanted. That would be a good start and I could take care of the rest. I found a printable online of a cupcake wrapper that looked like the eyes for the mushroom and I bought white candy melts to make the dots. 

I found super cute mushroom favor bags online that were homemade and I thought very original. I probably could have made them myself but why waste the hours when I can pay someone else to do it!

I decided to put a kool aid play doh kit , ring pop, candy buttons, mario gummies and mario stickers in each bag. Collin helped put the play doh kits together and helped to fill the bags. 

Guess who's back!!

Life gets in the way, what can I say? Our house seems like it has become ten times busier with the addition of Tyler to the family. The fact that he doesn't like to sleep probably doesn't help much. So, sorry we haven't posted much! So once again it is catch up time...

Here are the boys dressed in all their favorite football gear. Unfortunately, it seems they bring bad juju every time they "gear up" for game day...or maybe their favorite teams just suck??? I don't know. Either way I think they are super cute!