Nothing says President's Day like random food selections made to fit the Holiday with a really big stretch of the imagination. Complete with flags in fruit and George Washington cupcakes. We had Mike and Holly and the Fish family over to join us for the fun. Happy Presidents Day!
Kyleigh came home from school very excited about a paper she was bringing home. It was a sign up for a dance camp at Capital High School put on by the dance team. When she signed up Katelyn wanted to sign up also so they both went. It was after school for a week with a performance at a Capital boys basketball game. There was a bit of a dilemma with the music choice for Kyleigh's dance and she almost didn't get to perform but it worked out in the end. They were pretty cute. Katelyn spent most of her performance trying to get the girls next to her to whisper with her. Especially during the "freestyle" portion of the dance. I got to see one of my friends, Terra, that I went to college with and worked with at St. Lukes. Her daughter was doing the camp also. We also got the bonus of watching Colby play basketball at the game. All around good time.
Who wouldn't want to start Valentines Day with a heart made of bacon? We finished the day with a scavenger hunt. The first clue was in an envelope. We played a Valentines version of the left/right game where we passed the envelope from left to right as Rusty read the left/right story. It was so fun to watch the excitement grow and it wasn't just Ridge who was excited! The scavenger hunt led through the house and ended up with a marble racer game for the kids. Happy Valentines Day!
Ridge was all about the superhero party so we went with it. Russ made the invitations with Ridge starring as Captain America. Ridge is a funny little guy and all about the details. He wanted to draw a spider on every can of "web shooters" for the ninja fight (pictures below). Everyone came dressed as a superhero. We had superhero cupcakes, a superhero puzzle for everyone to take home (Ridge also loves puzzles), and all kinds of games. We played karate chop a brick. Everybody got a chance to HI-YA a "brick," which was a styrofoam food tray. They had to make their way through the laser maze (red ribbon strung across the stairs) to get upstairs to diffuse a bomb (pop a black balloon). Then they had to break open the "save a superhero" pinata. I couldn't figure out how to make one of the cheap pinatas at Winco fit into the party theme. I ended up tying superhero figures to the string above the pinata and told the kids they had to save the superheros by breaking open the pinata. We played hulk smash. Everybody got to put on hulk gloves and smash an ice cream cone. We had cupcakes and then everybody went outside with a can of web shooters. Pretty soon some evil ninjas (Russ and Kyleigh) showed up and the little superheros attacked them with their web shooters. It was a really fun party, if I do say so myself. Many thanks to Rusty and Pinterest!
Ridge's birthday was a whirlwind of fun. We started out the day with pancake men. As soon as the girls were off to school we went to a puppet show at the library, Barnes and Noble to pick out a book, and out to Burger King for a birthday lunch and playing on the playground with Aliya. Ridge wanted Hawaiian haystacks for dinner and his cake choice was a Captain America ice cream cake. We couldn't find a lighter so Rusty grabbed the fireplace blow torch to light the candles. That was a little scary. He got his very first big kid lego set and put it together with minimal help from Rusty. At the end of the day Rusty and I had to get our picture with Ridge doing the famous Ridge smile. Age 5 is the big year that all of our kids have had their first friend birthday party so even when Ridge's birthday was over he still had his friend birthday party to look forward to. Happy Birthday to our big 5 year old!
