Ethan's Friend Birthday Party

After we got all cleaned up from the Colorpalooza and I had picked Courtney up from her dance practice, it was time for Ethan's friend birthday party!  In April he had told me he didn't want a friend party.  But as it got closer to his birthday it came out that he really did want a party but didn't think we had time to plan it.  Usually, we do big home-made birthday parties that take a few months to get all the supplies for.  But I assured him that we could easily put together a fun party.  He just had to decide what he wanted to do.

After careful consideration, he decided he wanted a swimming birthday party.  We had a bunch of free passes to Sand Hollow Aquatics Center and we had a free voucher for Little Caesars, so we figured we could have a fun party with those two things alone!  I made up invitations and then found out that Ethan had been invited to an 11 year old campout on Friday night, so we changed the party to Saturday afternoon.  We got all the invites out the week before and things were set.

The boys met at our house and, after getting them double buckled in our van, we took off for the SHAC.  They got to swim for about 1 1/2 hours and had a blast.  Ethan even did a front flip off the diving board!  I went to get the pizza and realized that it was really windy and so we decided to get them out of the pool and take them back to our house for pizza and cake/ice cream.

Here's Ethan and his friends:

 Here is Ethan's beach cake:

 Blowing out the candles:

 Waiting to open presents:

 Opening his cool watergun that has a scope on it: