A Birthday to Remember

I think I am finally recovered enough from last weekend's festivities to try and blog about them. We had so much going on and had so much fun, I don't think I will be able to begin to do it justice, but I will try.
My family came into town early Friday evening and we headed to Garcia's for dinner. It wasn't meant to be a birthday dinner, but someone asked Andrew if he thought it would be fun to get to wear the "birthday sombrero" and be serenaded with Happy Birthday, Mexican style. Of course, he was all about it, especially when he heard fried ice cream would also be part of the deal-OLE'!
After dinner, we were off to Disney on Ice-Mickey and Minnie's Adventure or something like that. It was fun, but mostly for Rylee-Andrew lost interest pretty quickly. Funny, he enjoyed the ice show plenty when we took him when he was three. His tastes are becoming much more discriminating as he gets older I suppose. It weren't no MONSTER TRUCK RALLY- He's becoming a true boy's boy!
The next day was the Big Day-Party Day! Andrew chose a construction theme (he actually couldn't decide between construction and Spiderman, so I made the final call). I think the results were pretty darn cute, if I do say so myself. I served Andrew's treat choices-Doritos, Cheetos, Peanut M & Ms and Skittles in little plastic dump trucks. I threw in carrots and dip so it looked like we were at least TRYING to be healthy. We had traffic cones, caution tape and balloons outside for decoration. Andrew invited 10 of his little friends and cousins and 7 of them ending up coming, which was plenty! Every kid got a pair of goggles, a carpenter's apron and plastic hard hat to wear. Funny, not very many of the kids chose to wear theirs-I thought kids just loved to play dress up?

We played three games:
1. Tower building contest with legos

2. Tool Relay-the kids had to load a series of plastic tools into their tool pouches and then unload them so the next person could go lay them back down in the line. I think it was probably the most fun game.

3. Beanbag toss into the back of a plastic dumptruck

(I had more games ready, but we started getting short on time).

Then the kids decorated cookies my sister made in the shapes of hard hats and dump trucks (Thanks Hill!) Then we opened presents and Andrew got a TON of great new things. He was opening them so fast, I had a hard time keeping track of what was from who, but some of his favorites were some cool truck videos from Meemaw, a motorized shark monster truck from Rylee, and of course the trampoline from mommy and daddy.

Finally, it was cake time (which Andrew had been asking for since before the party started as soon as he saw the cake). He kept asking, "Are we going to have cake yet?" The people at the bakery did a great job making up for my inability to make a homemade cake-I thought his construction cake looked fantastic! Andrew loved it too, and that's what really matters, right?

After the party, everyone worked on getting the trampoline put together until it was time to go to dinner. Andrew got to choose where he wanted to go, and much to the delight of my dad, he said he wanted to go to,"the place with the buffalo head and pink butter" aka Maddox in Brigham City. So buffalo head and pink butter he had and a pretty good birthday too, if you ask me. Good thing you only turn 5 once!