HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, JARED!!!

Jared's 7th birthday was last Friday, May 9....sorry it has taken me a while to post this....anyway, he had a great day! He opened presents before going to school (sorry, the pics are a little backwards)....he got to bring a b-day treat into school, and we went to Burger King for dinner! He was pretty excited to get 4 new Webkinz from Grandma and Grandpa!!!!! He was also happy about his new K'nex. He got new clothes, too....at the time the toys are what he was excited about, but I have noticed any time his new shirts from Grandma and Grandpa are clean, that is what he wears!

The following day, May 10, we had his birthday party! He wanted a "Daxter" party. Daxter is a PSP game where an exterminator is trying to kill bugs....so basically I turned it into a bug party, with a twist of Daxter....I think he was happy about the outcome!

Upon the kids arrival, we had a sign up on the front door....you can't read it in the picture above, but it told the parents that we were having bug problems, and our exterminator "Daxter" needed their childs help killing all the bugs so we could enjoy Jareds party. Each child was given a cute sticker with a picture of Daxter, that Matthew had made on the computer. They then got to go to Daxters Lab where they first had to work at identifying bugs.....(the kitchen table, where they colored pictures of bugs).....(yes, Jared has goggles on his head....they came off eventually, but Daxter wears goggles in the game while hunting for bugs, so Jared wanted to get into that mode!!!)

At Jared's request, I made a beehive cake....you cant really tell, but i bought the bee graham crackers to put on and around the hive.

After the kids had colored for a while, we gave them each a bug catcher and let them look for plastic bugs around the house.....this became their party favor, and the carried with them to the other party games, where they were given little prizes....gummie bugs, bee crackers, bug sidewalk chalk.

They had to swat away bugs (balloons) with fly swatters....they had a blast with that!!!....they got to take their fly swatter home, too!!!
Of course, Jared got to open presents!
Finally, cake time!!! (in the background, you can see the green pin the spider on the web game, and our blue bug toss....instead of a bean bag toss, i got some big bug toys that they got to toss into a couple of holes in the box.....we called it the Daxters bug drop!!!)
It was a fun party....Jared has a great group of friends!!!!