Calvin's Mini Party at Jabbers

We did a little mini celebration for Calvin's birthday at Jabbers, with Calvin's playschool friends--Logan, Dalton and Liam. It was great, and the service at Jabbers was amazing!




What was really cute, was watching these boys play 'house'.

A Batman Birthday

Calvin turned 3 last month, so we did our first friend party...batman style! I had fun going all out with the theme, maybe too much. My sister had to stop me when I tried to do a black and white candy bar, reminding me they were 3-year olds and that black candy = licorice flavor = gross.

I had the best of intentions when I decided to have the Joker come to the party. I first gave all the kids bat capes and masks. My mindset: Joker comes, all the kids play batman and have to find him, catch him and tie him up, etc. However... instead, it started out all the kids crying, scared and running to their parents. Only one brave soul (Remi) had the courage to stand close to him after he was tied up. My original plan was to have each of the kids stand next to him for a picture. I was intending to send out my thank you's with a little picture of the kid and joker, cartoon style, saying "Batman (kid's name) caught the Joker at Calvin's Birthday party." Unfortantely, they weren't going for that idea, however they finally got over being scared and enjoyed pelting him with balls! Will's a good sport, since he always plays along with my crazy ideas.


The festivities continued with cupcakes and presents.

I had some cute ideas for food that I found off some party idea website. I made these cute signs for. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of the food table before it got destroyed. We had Poison Ivy Punch (Just green punch, the site suggested adding mint leaves, but knowing 3 year olds, I didn't want them to be afraid of it), Penguin's Pizza, Two-Face Sandwiches (just pb & J), Cat Woman's Claws (Bugles), and Joker's surprise--Faux French Fries, which looked so cute, but didn't taste the best. I also made bat cookies for one of their take home souvenirs, which I bagged and labeled. So here is a pic of the cookie and the signs, it's the best I could do :(

My little crazy face... thoroughly enjoyed his party and had his fill of cupcakes and bat cookies. I on the other hand, decided one friend party every few years is enough...

The Family Party

Calvin and Tressa in the bounce house. Will with Skylar.

Present time...after the first few, he had to pose for the camera with every present.

Cupcake time!

"Maam-ma!"

Great Grandma Bower with Skylar

Calvin's Birthday Week...Party 2

We had Calvin's 2nd party on his actual birthday, and since we didn't have Ashley here, we had to get by with Costco cupcakes.


Calvin caught on to the blowing out the candles this time...

Calvin Birthday Week...Party 2 (cont'd)

Calvin’s Birthday Week…Party 1

My baby turned 2! Man I can’t believe how the time has flown. It makes me sad how fast he has grown up.

Anyhow, Calvin got to celebrate his birthday with two parties this year. We did one over Easter when a bunch of my family was in town for Dallan’s Homecoming, and a 2nd on his actual birthday, which was the 23rd. We started off the first birthday, with my sister-in-law Ashley’s impressive cake decorating skills and were able to give Calvin a full blown Elmo extravaganza. Check out this cake she made for him!

Everyone had a good time sporting the Elmo headgear.

Even Dallan and Dane!

Cake time was interesting. Calvin was very concerned that we set fire to Elmo, and so we had to quickly remove the candles and put them in a cupcake, which he was totally cool with being on fire. Although, he wasn’t quite sure about blowing the candles out. He needed a little help.

And thoroughly enjoyed by all! Thank you again, Ashley for making such a wonderful and cute cake!!!

Present time… thank you everyone for everything, Calvin had a great birthday!

p.s. I don’t know what is going on with this post and the giant spaces. I can’t seem to fix it.