Cooper and Ben's Carnival Birthday Party

The clown named...
Cooper!!!

So it's been over a month ago, but last month we had Cooper and Ben's 4th birthday party. Laura and I both thought a carnival party would be so fun, and since their birthdays are so close together we thought it would be fun to try a joint party this year. The boys loved it and it made things alot easier on us!

We held the party at my parents' clubhouse in their neighborhood. It ended up being way easier than being at one of houses...so nice not to have to clean the house beforehand! :)

Here's the birthday boy!

The sweet treats

The snack table. Each of the families got their own box of tickets to spend on games and snacks, so these were some of the snacks they could "buy."

The party room. The games are all on the right-we had a fishing game, fish bowl game, knock the pins over game, a craft, a few ball games, etc...

We also set up a photo booth with clown noses and a clown wig for the kids to take pictures. Here are the two birthday boys with Elizabeth and Jackson.

And the three big kids in our other photo op!

These boys are so cute together!

This was outside the room as you walked up to the party.

I tried to get pictures of all of the guests, but only was able to get a few. Here is Hunter...

the best family photo we could get...

Elise...

Ashlynn (I love this one...)

Joanne, Jane, and Jill...

Alyssa and Ashlynn (Alyssa was nice enough to come and be our face painter!)...

and Drew (isn't this a good one too?!)

I just had to add this one, I thought it was cute of Jackson!

A few of the activities during the party:

find the marked duck game...

face painting...

snacking...

more snacking...

present opening...

and of course, cake!

Four candles are a lot to blow out!

Yummy!

The best group shot of most of the kids.

We also had a pinata.

The last activity was pin-the-tail on the donkey.

We had such a fun time with this party, and most importantly, celebrating the boys' turning 4!!!! Yay!!!

Cooper is four!!!

Cooper turned four February 27, I can hardly believe he is four! We had a party with friends a few weeks ago that I'll hopefully be able to post about soon ( my camera broke right after that so I couldn't download the pictures) but on his actual birthday we had a little family party for him. It was so much fun. Cooper requested a Buzz Lightyear AND Spiderman party. What a silly boy.

Here he is asleep in the middle of the night. I started a new thing this year where I put balloons all over his floor and streamers in his doorway, that way when he woke up it'd be a fun surprise. (Notice the green swatches all over? We were trying to figure out what shade of green to paint his room. That was up for about a month! We've now finally painted it so I'll have to post pictures soon).

I did just a few decorations in the rest of the house.

He requested a Buzz cake so that's what I made. It's supposed to be Buzz standing on the moon.

The birthday boy waking up!

I had my little camera which has such a delay I of course missed all of his fun faces. Oh well!

The other new tradition I started this year was to put one of his presents at the foot of his bed so he could open it right away in the morning. He got a Leapster and he LOVES it.

I also let him have a brownie for breakfast with his "four" candle on it. He was SO excited! Definitely is into his sweets like his mommy!

I'm four!

Cooper received lots of fun presents!

Blowing out the candles on his cake.

Silly string was one of his favorite presents!

Cooper with his birthday guests!

I just had to add this random picture of the birthday boy with his brother after their bath.

We love you Cooper!

Babysitting Ben

While Elizabeth was having her heart procedure Ben stayed with us for a few days. We had such a good time! Unfortunately I took hardly any pictures because of my horrible little camera. But I did get a few!

Here is Cooper dressed up in his spiderman costume. He went through a few days where he was OBSESSED with spiderman. We bought a book about spiderman at the book store and then he wanted to dress up like him. He wore the outfit almost the entire weekend.

I came into his room and this was what he was doing. Isn't he so cute?!?

Then Ben had to get in on the action!

The boys took a bath together and they spent a lot of time SCREAMING in the bath. My ears were ringing!

Awww, me and my boys!

While Ben was here they had ice cream, and Jackson ate his first ice cream cone. Yummy Yummy!