Mommy Musings

For anyone who cares, I posted something on my other blog finally. If you do check it out sometimes then sorry it took so long. If you don't then sorry you have to read this little note.

Ryker's Birthday Party

We decided to give Ryker a "friend party" this year. This is the first time he has had a birthday party (except for his 1st birthday). He was really excited when I told him we could do it. Reagan was not. We took him and 4 friends to a new place called Pirate Island. It is in Orem and is like Chuck-e-cheese but pirate themed and the food is WAY better. The kids loved it. The boys thought is was so cool with the pirates everywhere and the ship that would shoot cannons when they were eating. Reagan had a friend come too (a sister of one of the boys who came) she was not a fan of the place. She wanted Reagan right next to her. (Probably would have been hiding behind me but I was across the table. Skyler was sitting next to her. He is more scary than pirates.) They had videos games and a little play area for younger kids. We didn't use the play area though or even really look at it so I don't know how good it was. They had a balloon guy come around to the tables and make balloon animals for everyone. All the boys wanted swords of course, but this guy went further and made them a belt to put the sword in. Pretty cool. Reagan and Jaxon got parrots that hooked onto their shirts. I told him to make whatever he wanted for Jocelyn since he probably gets sick of making the same thing all the time. He made her a ladybug which doubled as a bracelet. It was cute. So now that I have rambled forever here is a collage of the pictures. (getting nine kids to pose for a picture when they are excited is hard)


For anyone who wants to do this for their kids or something here are some tips. ...
They do have party packages where they get tokens and a pirate hat for 7 bucks. And a couple others that include food, but here is the secret...... the kids menu is the pirate hat that they give you. Therefore every kids gets one with out payying 7 dollars. So it is cheaper to just buy how many tokens you want. Also a good thing kids meals are 3.99 and under. Pretty good. Cheaper for us than buy one pizza and drinks for them. (only by 5 bucks but still) They have a 24 inch pizza that you can split up with different toppings. That will feed quite a few people. (it is 35 dollars) One thing that made Skyler super upset was that our waitress lost our debit card on the way to the register and then tried to blame it on us. I wouldn't really hold this against the place just the person. It was found, but it was frustrating. So that was his fun party and I am sure half of you stopped reading along time ago.

More Party Fun!

We had a party with family on Sunday. We of course had to have noodles for dinner, which is fine with me because I an a noodle fan myself. I ended up making chicken parmesan. It was good and the only mishap was that my over caught on fire. (on the inside) Yep that's right, a fire. It was pretty fun. Why do they put fire alarm things at the very top of a twelve foot ceiling??? Anyway, we had a good time and Ryker of course got some good loot. Here is my handsome 6 year old.


We had some back and forth with the cake. He wanted power ranger but I didn't have black frosting for the mask over the eyes, so we did Bionicle. He really likes bioncles and the only one I have actually gotten him is the one I got him for his birthday. My brother gave Ryker his collection of bionicles when he moved. So here is the cake. No one can probably tell what is but hey I tried those things aren't exactly 2 demensional worthy.

This is what a bionicle is. I tried to copy this guys head. Can you sort of see it now???? I hope so.

And of course the blowing of the candle moment (he only wanted one that was a "6")

Happy Birthday to my big kid. He loves sports and loves to be around people. (except brothers and sisters most of the time) When he made a bag about himself for school the teacher asked that they put in three things that are important to them. The first thing he said was family, so that made me feel good. I actually had to tell him to pick a toy. (I couln't thing of anything else that would work that we cold find an object for) He is a kind kid who obeys way more than other kids. Parents tell me he is smart, sweet, polite, kind, advanced, and many other things. Makes me feel good as a parent, but I think it is just in him to be like that. I don't take much credit. Anyway, I don't like to brag about my kids like that but I thought that I might want to remember this some day. (when he is a teenager perhaps??)