Sunday, January 9, 2011

A Party that is Out of This World!

Today we celebrated Calvin's birthday with a space-themed birthday party. He has been totally into space ships & all things space-related for the last couple of months. It made for a fun party!

The cake table:
One of my favorite Grandma Cheryl cakes of all time (if you look closely, you'll see a really cute captain of this ship peering through the window):
Isn't she good?!?
We planned his party in conjuction with the Chief's game, since the Chief's FINALLY made the play-offs. . .
Unfortunately, it was a pretty pathetic performance by the men in red.
Maybe if these guys had shown up, the outcome would have been a little different?
As usual, the boys wasted no time getting downstairs to play follow-the-leader on their riding toys.
When we called that it was present time, though, they hurried back up.
Sydney drew Calvin this cute Spaceship card:
Grandma Jo & Grandpa Denny got Calvin his very own work boots.
He cleaned up! (Although not literally as you can see.)
After the presents were torn through, it was time for cake. Just what is Grandma Cheryl doing to my cake??
Whoa! That's what she was doing! I have a feeling plain ol' candles will never be good enough again.
Grandma Jo also got Calvin a very cool candy bouquet. Hopefully, he'll be sharing with the rest of us!
Calvin had one more present downstairs from Grandma Cheryl & Grandpa Kermit. . . What a handsome little astronaut I have!
Can you believe they made this spaceship out of a refrigerator box? Calvin was SO excited!
He immediately was showing me how cool his light-up top looked from inside his spaceship.
In case you haven't seen Calvin's new room, it fits right in with his birthday theme of the day.
Once our guests had left, Violet decided she would help clean up by pulling on the streamers.
I found several red pieces of paper in her cheeks. They DID say we needed to increase her fiber. . .
What a great day! Calvin is so blessed to have such wonderful family to celebrate these special occasions with!

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