Big Man's un-birthday party

Most people think we're weird because we celebrate Big man's birthday August 2nd with my mom's. Her real birthday is December 29th and always celebrated it August 2nd growing up. We decided to adopt the same tradition since big man's birthday is Christmas Day!!! It's fun for him to have a party and get presents and not get lost in the Christmas craziness. This was quite the party. He picked out everything. He wanted to get the cake weeks in advance. Luckily I talked him out of that. He had a great time.

Big and little man with their cousins. Emily and her boys were still in town from the family reunion. That was fun to have them join us.

No party is complete without games. We played several and the kids enjoyed them.

Big man beating on the pinata. Yes, no party is complete without a pinata either. This picture does show all of our hard work this summer. Jeff dug out under our deck and poured cement. I restained the deck which was a MAJOR pain.

The gift of the night was a cantaloupe from Aunt Emily. She told him that's what his present was and he didn't believe her, so she did it. It was pretty funny watching him open it. He got a lot of fun stuff to play with.
It was a great party. I can't believe my oldest is almost 5. He keeps telling everybody that he's 5 now. One of the drawbacks to his summer party, he thinks he's already that age :) Oh well, he'll catch on. Thanks Grandma for sharing your birthday.