Birthday Party Fun!

Happy Birthday Little One!

4th grade Campout

How to have the most fun in 24 hours.

Lster Bday Party had the Force

Lster wanted a boys Star Wars party.

Lster brought all his friends to table to show them how to make Yoda origami. He is very good at folding Star Wars characters.

Once everyone arrived we had the boys run through a Jedi Obstacle Course to make sure their bodies were in tip top Jedi shape.

Next we searched for Moon Rocks. 

The boys eagerly anticipated the light saber cake.

Tada...

Somebody left the cake eating to go check out his presents. I found him ogling the treasure.

Somebody's dad really likes him and gave him a SUPER BIG second helping of cake.

It was time for light saber fun. They had to pop bubbles and keep balloons in the air.

Eventually it turned into a daddy made game of tag.

I kept the little one entertained while Cster got a lot of little boys really, really worked up (and hopefully tired for their parents)

Daily Musings

Kster and I were making dinner and I was cutting up some cube steak. We get our cow from a farmer and it comes in butcher paper.

Kster: Can kids touch raw chicken?
Me: Its not chicken, its cow. Grown ups need to cut the cows.
Kster: How do the cows not get frustrated when you cut their skin?
Me: Because they are dead.
Kster: They are dead? And they don't come back to life?
Me: Yep
Kster: Why do they have to die?
Me: They die so that we can take off their meat. This is meat, not skin.
Kster: Wow!

Fairness

"10 minutes! That's not fair. Last time I spit in Nikster's face I only got 5 minutes time out."

Year of Dates - June

Mster is the master planner. She plans big ideas all the time. She currently has a plan to start her own business wherein she will cook you dinner and deliver it to your house. She's still sorting out some of the details. One of her great ideas was to invite every girl she knew from age 6 to 12 to our house to make cookies and deliver them. We decided to scale it down a bit and have her invite 2 friends and have it be part of her date with Cster. 

This is them making cookie tags.

Lster and I went to Manitou Springs to check out the Penny Arcade. Its not truly a penny arcade but the machines cost the same amount as they did when they first came out. So there are pinball machines for a dime and if you want to see a little bear dance through a small hole it will cost you a penny. There are little kid rides and there are games with tickets. Games with tickets are every kids crack. At least they are my kids crack. Must get more tickets. 

Before we discovered the ticket games Lster went for a ride.

What better way to spend your tickets than on candy also known as the other crack.

Super fun time.

And we saw a deer driving home. 

Kster and Cster went to dinner and a movie Much candy was eaten and a whole 40 minutes of the movie was watched before Lster deemed it too loud and asked to go home. No pictures were taken but still much fun occurred.

What happens when Mom goes on a date with her kids?

The older kids learn how to Stick Pull. They teach Kster when we get home from mini-golfing. Mom's broom is sacrificed in the name of fun! 

8 yr old girls are not too embarrassed yet to wear Cheerio boxes on their head.

Babies are kept safely in their high chair where no brooms can harm them.

Year of Dates - May

These dates are a little late in getting updated as I'm was waiting for the pics from Cster. Even if we posted them in July, we still did the dates in May.

The thing about our year of dates is that the kids see what each other are doing with us and then they want to do it too. So off me and Mster went to go rock climbing and we had a blast. 

She made it to the top!

On our way to the gym is a new miniature golf course. Kster talked about it all the time. So we went and had a blast. Kster was very good at getting the golf ball into the air, and onto other holes. That boy's got a wicked swing. 

Kster does a very good monster impression.

And we had to go for some yogurt after.

Kster got a pretty good shot.

Lster and Cster had a good time glow-golfing. Picture to come...eventually. :) 

Boot Camp!

I joined a gym a few months ago. I never thought I would but I really liked my free trial week and now I really like working out there in general.

The gym this week was offering a free trial Boot Camp Week. 3 days of Boot Camp. I signed up with some friends. Tuesday I had company so I could go and Thursday the instruction dropped his motorcycle on his hand and was at the hospital so I was left with my one and only class today.

It.Was.Intense.

We started our warm-up with inch worms, superman push-ups and group push-ups. Then we moved into the stations section. Stations were 5 minutes each with 1 minute rest. 5 minutes doesn't seem like a long time but they were the longest 5 minute sections of my life.

1. Lift a pallet over your head (with a partner) and do squats
2. Plank walk while flipping over a 45lb weight (they let me have a 35lb weight so I could actually do it)
3. Rope shaking in plank position
4. Pallet row lifts (with partner)
5 Carry a big tire (with partner) down the road and back
6 Run with Sandbags

Then our group of 6 people flipped a 500lb tire across the lot.

Then we climbed 26 steps and on each step we had to do full range calf raises for whatever number of step it was. So, step 1, 1 calf raise. Step 2, 2 calf raises.

And then we were done.

Craziness.

Family Photo Shoot