Carter's Party

The perfect word to describe Carter's 9th birthday party this year is it was RAD!

Carter really wanted to have his party at the trampoline park again this year.  We wanted it to be spacial and a little different than last year so were super excited to find out about Neon Lights night at Rock' in Jump! Carter decide it would be awesome to have a glow in the dark/neon lights party.  

Since the neon lights is at night we had his party on Friday night.  The boys all arrived at the house for dinner, gifts and a game and then we drove them all to the trampoline park.

Carter had gone to a birthday party a few weeks earlier and they had a Target cake so that is what he asked for.  I was so impressed with how the baker did exactly what I wanted!

Carter got to pick 5 of his closest friends

Right to left..

Carter, Ander, Max, Noah, Cord and Wesley

For dinner we had pizza.

After dinner we did a scavenger hunt around the house (we love scavenger hunts right now!) to find all the fun glow in the dark things that the kids got to wear to neon lights and to take home in their goodie bags...

They loved it! They looked too cool and were ready to rock the night!

Carter's friends sure now what he loves....

Aubrey invited Chloe as her friend for the evening.  We were in the girl car while Dad was with all the boys in our big car.  We drove behind them and it was a party in that car! We could see all the lights flickering and boys dancing!

Once at Rock' in Jump the kids were gone having a blast! 

They played lots of dodge ball....

 I rock climbed with Carter...

 and made it to the top!

Dad's not big on jumping so he enjoyed a massage...

We jumped for a couple hours and then it was cake time...

The cake was delicious but man was the frosting dark! We all had black mouths and can you guess what color poo we all had the next day?  Bright blue! I texted all the moms apologizing it looked a little scary!  

After cake we jumped some more but you could see the boys were starting to get tired!

After a few hours of jumping you always need to enjoy some cool air in the hurricane machine. 

 I think they had all had a blast! 

Carter said it was one of his best parties!

Our Carter's 9!!!!

    Thursday May 2nd was our guys 9th birthday!! It was a perfect day!!! Carter originally wanted to take the entire day off of school.  When he told Mrs. Carter he was not going to be at school on Thursday she begged him to come in for a couple hours since that whole week was state testing.  Carter didn't want to disappoint his teacher so he told me he was going to go just for a couple hours and that I could pick him at 11am.  Carter was so excited waking up to his door full of pictures.....

      

and all his decorations downstairs...

Carter decided to only open one gift in the morning and save the rest for later in the day.

Blue chocolate chip pancakes and donuts for breakfast, yummy!

Carter made his own Birthday shirt this year! Since his party was going to be a "glow" party he used glow in the dark paints.  He also picked out the font and what it was going to say....

Since he decided to go to school kind of last minute we wanted to bring a treat to share with his friends so we ran to Raley's before school started.

Carter had a lot of fun at school for a couple hours! He was happy because the test was Math and he loves math.  He also liked passing out his cookies and everyone singing to him.  He was ready to go waiting for me in the office when I got there at 11am! 

We had the best mommy and Carter date that day!!! 

Up first lunch at his favorite place....

Yep you guessed it! McDonald's.

The happy meal toy were these cute avengers figures.  The lady was so cute and gave Carter one for his birthday and then we bought a happy meal and an extra figure to start his collection!  

Dad even came and saw us real quick and saw all our new toys and ended up going to a couple other McDonald's and finding some more.  We love collecting things!

After lunch Carter and I went to the nickle arcade.  The guy that works there was so cool and treated Carter like a King! He got lots of extra tickets and coins.  There were a few college kids there too.  That were also spoiling Carter with their winnings.  Once the big kids left it was just Carter and I and it felt so cool! It was like I rented the arcade out just for Carter! We had a blast playing and winning lots of tickets. 

After all our gaming we headed to Yogurtlicious for a yummy treat!

I love my cool dude!

Then it was off to pick Aubrey up!

Once at home Aubrey and I put together a fun scavenger hunt for Carter to find all his gifts....

Aubrey's favorite hiding place was in his bed.  Can you spot the gift?.....

After all the gifts were found it was opening time....

This was his favorite gift.....

Then we had had Carter's favorite dinner mac and cheese with lots of hot dogs!  We also did table prizes then too...

After dinner Carter had a baseball game.....

After the game the team all sang happy birthday to Carter!

Then we came home and had an Oreo ice cream cake that that I made for him...

What a great Birthday!!!

Here are Carter's answers for his birthday board....

Dear Carter,

Can you believe you are 9!! The last time you will be a single digit number! You melt my heart with your sweet loving spirit!  I love that you give me so many hugs and still love our snuggle time together.  I love that you always protect me! If I'm having a bad day you always want to make it better.  When you jump out of the car on days I'm dropping you off at school and you look at me and say "Mom have a great day" with a huge smile I want to freeze time! You are my special little guy that I hope will always want to hang with his mom! You are a great friend to so many people.  Every day you have a new story to tell about a new kid you played with at recess.  Everyone knows you at school you are so popular! You tell the best jokes and keep us all laughing with your random comments.  You love video games and playing with your cousin Davey.  You also have started playing Magic with dad and continue to bet him quite frequently! You have no time to eat which frustrates me like no other! You are super skinny and run super fast.  Your energy level is off the charts!  You continue to be good at any sport you try.  Track & Field is your favorite.  You love to read and are the librarians favorite student! You do great in school!!! You are just the BEST! Dad and I could have never asked for a better son.  We love you so very much!!!