Let's go fishing!

When everyone arrived at the party it was lunchtime, so I had all the food ready to go.  We all sat down to eat and then when everyone was finished eating we started with the fun stuff!

Once I knew the boys were going to love the fishing party, I had so many ideas of what to do at the party.  I ended up only doing a couple.  I would have loved to do all of them, but let's face it they are only 4.  David wanted me to keep it to 2 activities.  Without question I wanted them to actually fish.  I mean, not really fish in the water but at least play fish.  I made fun fishing poles out of wooden dowels, twine and magnets.  For the fish I used scrapbook paper cut into fish shapes, laminated then and put a magnet in the middle. In my previous post here I mentioned it was going to be too windy to play outside. I moved all my furniture out and the boat came in.  We placed all the fish around & to make it look a little more real we added rocks. All the kids really enjoyed fishing!  We did a 2 team relay.  Both teams caught the same number of fish, so that worked out perfect :)

Sometimes you have to get out of the boat to get the fish

All the kiddos with their fish

After the fishing game, we did a quick clean up and moved on to the next game.  Now, I remember playing the "pop the balloon" game at several of my parties and at Erin's parties.  I wasn't necessarily fond of it, but the boys are at the stage where they LOVE to pop balloons.  After encouragement from David, I decided that would be the other game we would play.  Every time a balloon popped, I screamed.  Every.single.time.  Not my favorite game (the kiddos loved it though!). 

I feel the same way, Easton!

Camden didn't weight enough to pop the balloons.  He kept trying though!

After games it was time for cake & presents!

The boys loved everything they received!  Thanks to everyone!!

Silly....again

Happy, Happy 4th birthday boys!! You bring me more joy than I know how to express.  I thank God that He trusted me with you!