Cole's 6th birthday party

Cole's 6th birthday was also at the Placer Nature Center. I can't say enough how wonderful this center is!  The kids have a blast every time they are there.  Both parties were geared towards the kids theme and were totally different from each other!

The ladies at the Nature Center made the BEST center pieces for the party!  How great are these dinosaurs?!?!

At the Nature Center they provide glass plates, glasses, and cloth napkins!  We are required to carry out all trash and they will keep food that can be composted.

Painting rocks

Going on the long nature hike in search of snake skins, bugs and of course staying out of the poison oak!

Checking out deer bones

The party crew!

Mike and  I of course went a little insane (as usual) with the cupcakes.  This is the 3rd year Cole has had a dinosaur themed birthday party to we needed to make something a little different.  I found these cupcakes on Pinterest (of course) and ordered fondant.  I made the cupcakes and frosted them Friday morning and then Friday night Mike and I made these guys.  We started out with T'Rex's but those were a bit of a problem so we went with 30 stegosaurus's and 5 T'Rex's.  The kids went crazy when they saw the cupcakes!  (4th birthday T-Rex cake) (3rd birthday Legoman cake)

Cole opening his gifts.  I love how the kids crowed around to check it all out!!

Sweet Alice.

We've made some awesome friends this year!  Cameron and Cole are best buddies at school!

Twilight Party of the Century

The main entrance!

The games!

Teams: Pattinson Power lead with 6000 points in to Final Jeopardy

The Forkers in second place with 3200 won Final Jeopardy over Pattinson Power to take the win.  The Bloodsuckers came in 3rd with 3000.

Lindsey you did an awesome job at setting up Jeopardy.  My favorite part was the categories.

The details!

A tribute shelf to each book and one to Edward and Bella.

Attire - Red, Black & White 

Red Velvet Cake

We dined on ravioli, bread sticks, caprese salad, cheese assortment, artichoke dip, and of course only red drinks were served.  There was also a white chocolate fountain with assorted items for dipping.

Until November.......

Thanks to Lindsey and Elissa for planning the best party ever!

Thanks for some of the photos too! :-)

Adult birthday parties can be fun....

You get to drink yummy drinks....which he was not a fan of

Don't worry every one, it had no to-kill-ya. The margarita man thought he was being funny labeling the prego's drinks...

You get to hit things with bats and you get cheered on!

ok, so maybe he got a little bit carried away

I don't think he really understood why the "big" kids were so excited, but he had to be in on it

We may not look exhausted but I think we were both ready to fall over after 2 longs days of planning and preparing for Russ's Surprise 30th!

Once again, Cole is the drunk at the party.