Party, Party, Party!

Oh my gosh! Well, we arrived late at our own birthday party, but after that we had so much fun! We held the boys' birthday party at Monkey Bizness. This place is the best! They have several inflated climbing structures, obstacle courses, and giant slides. Good times! We have so many great pics -- although many are blurry as the kids (and adults) were almost constantly in motion = ) I'm pretty sure the parents and grandparents had as much fun climbing, swinging and sliding as the kids did. We are so fortunate to have so many wonderful people to celebrate with. Thank you all for playing with us! Here are several pictures from our birthday adventure:

Catherine, Gage & Alex on the giant slide.

Gloria and Riley on the giant slide.
Riley loving the air hockey game.

Alex and Gage getting ready for some sliding fun.

Cooper B playing a little b-ball and Gage demonstrating some mad climbing skills.

Mom and Riley climbing on up.

Part of our party crew.

Gage getting ready to climb the wall in the obstacle course. This is the area that I tried to show the kids how to be super-cool and fly over the wall like GI Joe or something. The result? Me on crutches with a bummed up ankle. Way to be cool mom!

Sara showing off her swing.

Little Cooper K digging the blue rocking dog. This is one of the cool things about Monkey
Bizness, they even have stuff for the little guys to have fun with = )

No fear Ashlyn sliding down the steep slope.

More of the crew enjoying snacks and cake while the boys open presents.

The cupcakes were a hit with the kiddos!

The dinosaur cake. When I was decorating this, Riley kept saying he wanted to "taste that dinosaur." It was everything I could do to keep the cake intact so it could make it to the party in one piece!

Riley opening some gifts. The boys got some cool stuff including games, guns, dinosaurs, balls and gift cards to DQ & McDonald's. The boys are so excited to use their "own credit cards" to buy some treats! We also received a couple of donations to Cooper's Cause in the boys' names. I can't wait to hand these over. What a super gift!

After all this fun we started our journey home. Once there, the boys enjoyed going through all of their loot -- so much so, there weren't even any tears shed when Gwamma and PaPa left. Now that's a miracle! Soon after, the boys were so exhausted they went to bed with no fuss. Ahhh, now that's the perfect way to end a great day = )