Happy 5th Birthday Connor!!!

So prepare to be overwhelmed with pics!! I do this mainly for those of you who were so sad to not be there!! We had a great b-day party for Connor on Saturday!! It was a "Rootin' Tootin' good time!" as one of the party members said!! It was our very own western how-down. So I will give the details with each pic...........

This is the sweetest pic of him and you can really see how excited he is! We got him boots for his birthday and it has been hard to keep them off his feet since. We gave them to him before the party so he could be a real cowboy!

These are Connor's friends and our kids. There was about 11 kids there which was more managable than I thought it would be (well maybe that is because I had Grandma, Grandma 2, Tiera, Jared, and one of my young women from church there to help!!). We had hot dogs, baked beans, and chips that we ate in pie tins just like the cowboys did!! We drank Cactus Juice (lime sherbert and sprite) they all thought I really juiced a cactus!

So we had a few games to play with the kids. Here is Jared organizing the Shoot-out!! Surprisingly the best shooter was a little girl!! Way to go!!

We also panned for gold!! Kudos to Jared for going and digging up the softest sand in Moab for the kids to pan through. We had a ton of "gold nuggets" in there for them to find and they all thought that were rich!! It was so cute!

The last game we played was called "Stomp the Snake". They loved it except for Jake who really did not want his snake to get stomped!! Emily Newman won that one and the kids loved chasing her to get the last snake!!

This is just a candid moment of Jakers!! He did not have the best day because he bit a hole in his tongue right before we left for the party. We did not realize it needed stiches until later that night when I talked to my friend who happens to be a dentist. She took him down to the office and her and her husband stiched it up for us no charge. They are awesome!!

Brigs as you can imagine had a blast!! Being at the park all day and eating it was heaven! He loved his cowboy hat and he only had one major biff-it!! He slid down the big kid slide head first and bloodied his nose and lip!! What can you do???

Here is Connor opening his presents!! He was so excited with each one even when he had no idea what it was! It was precious!! The kids were so excited to watch him open the ones that they got him!! His top two of the party were a Bubble Generator (it blows up to 1000 bubbles a minute, why did I not think of that) and a transformer dinosaur (that Brigs has already broke go figure).

He was so pumped about his cake! He wanted chocolate on chocolate and to have horses on it. I did my best to please! It is hard to have b-days without my sweetheart and talented sister-in-law Amanda to make amazing cakes for us!! But it will do!!

Here is a close up of the cake!! It is not leaning it is just the pic I promise!!

So before each kid left, we gave them a real, authentic cowboy root beer!! They thought is was so cool!! So now you feel like you were there. You did not miss a thing!! It was a great party and if anyone needs cowboy ideas just let me know!! Happy Birthday Connor!!!