Bentley's Birthday: Part Two

Like I said yesterday, Bentley has been planning his birthday for some time.  The last couple of years, he has wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese.  This year he wanted to have a cookout and invite all his friends from the neighborhood to eat and play water balloon games.  So that is exactly what we did this past Saturday!  Bentley wanted a Transformer cake and decorations, but wanted Legos for his present.

Cecily, my oldest, was a really big help getting everything ready.  She made his cake...

and blew up balloons along with some help from a couple of girls from the neighborhood.  The party was set to start at three, but I had a house and yard full of kids at 11 a.m.!  

We gently encouraged everyone to go play while we got things ready for the party.  Then when it was time for the party, we had to go round everyone up!  The kids each made an "Ocean in a Bottle" on the lanai...

before playing "Splish, Splish, Splash" (a water version of Duck, Duck, Goose) and some water balloon games.

We had a simple little Slip-N-Slide set up, but I think the kids had the most fun on it...

As a matter of fact, as you've already seen in most of the pictures, JennaBeth wasn't going to miss a beat of all the fun.  Here is a little clip of her and her little friend next door, Morgan, on the slide...

Once we peeled everybody off the Slip-N-Slide, the kids ate hotdogs, chips, homemade mac-n-cheese (Paula Deen's CrockPot recipe) and baked beans.  And of course there was the birthday cake!

Don't you just love the help baby sister was trying to give with the candles?  I just love it!!!

After cake was present time!  Bentley got lots of sweet cards and a little spending money and Legos, Legos, and more Legos...

That last one looks like a mug shot!  I think he was so excited he was in shock, ha, ha!

 

Everyone got to take a turn trying to pin the autobot emblem on Bumblebee...

 We ended with a pinata, Optimus Prime, of course...

When everybody had cleared out,

 this is what I saw...

Once again, big sister coming to the rescue and helping put his Lego Star Wars set together.  I told you she was a big help the entire day! 

 

Hosting a birthday party at home, exhausting.  One happy little six year old boy...

 Priceless! 

Blessings,