Golden Birthday

Yesterday Cade had his golden birthday! He turned 7 on April 7th, and we had a wonderful weekend celebrating. I really mean that, because we had hardly any tantrums and truly enjoyed spending time together. Hooray!

Since his birthday was on a Sunday (which Cade noticed like 6 months before his birthday and was super bummed that he'd have to go to church on HIS day...lol), we celebrated some on Saturday and some on Sunday.

Saturday daddy surprised Cade with his first present, the jumbo ball. What kid wouldn't love one of these??

Then that afternoon Grandma Kathy and Uncle Kevin arrived to keep the party going. Colorado has a place called ITZ, which is a cross between Chuck E. Cheese's and Dave and Busters. It is nice and spacious, has a pizza buffet, pasta, salads, desserts, actual rides like bumper cars, a little roller coaster, ticket games and lots of other cool stuff. We all had a great time.

He was excited that he had gotten ahold of Dan's air hockey paddle, hahaha...

 You can't tell from the pictures, but in this game you picked a color, and whenever your color showed up on the wall you had to hit it before it disappeared. The person who hits the most of their color wins. Fun!

Uncle Kevin is Alex's best friend. The rest of us get NO attention when Kevin is around :)

Now it was the actual birthday! We let him pick his meals for the day and of course had cake and presents. After chocolate chip waffles, the present opening began. He got a blanket and a birdhouse kit from Grandma Kathy, Spiderman sticker book from Uncle Kevin, Spiderman sunglasses and goggles from Alex, and water guns, Snap Circuits and some new bath toys (and that jumbo ball!) from Mom and Dad.

Here's Cade playing with the Snap Circuits. These things are COOL. You build your own circuit board and make lights turn on, sound effects, even making a propeller blade launch into the air. 

The finished birdhouse!

The weather was just gorgeous so we spent the day playing with his new presents, playing outside, and then ended with a BBQ dinner and a pazookie for his birthday dessert. What a great day and great to spend it with family. 

Happy 7th Birthday Cade!!!

This week I am headed to Phoenix for my niece's baptism, and considering that it's supposed to snow here tomorrow, I'll take that Phoenix heat!