Ethan turns 7! How Super!

I can't believe my little man is 7!  It seems like just yesterday he was toddling around, and now he's one of the big boys!!  He had a great time at his Super Mario birthday party!!

The kids had a great time playing Mario, and a bunch of other fun games (look at next post for details). 

Super cute & yummy cake!  Ethan lost his mustache blowing out his candles.  :)

My SUPER boys!

Super Fun Super Mario Party...the details!

While thinking of different themes for Ethan's birthday, Super Mario seemed like it would be great!  My boys LOVE Mario, so I started my quest for the Super Party!  I wanted to post these ideas so they can hopefully help someone, and cut down on the hours and hours of web searching that I did.  :)

First up...invitations...

A little time consuming....but cute!  :)

Decorations -
For decorations I made piranah plants.  An idea I saw on another blog.  I cut out the mouth, and sprayed the outside red.  I painted the white spots, and then attached styrofoam teeth with toothpicks.  I wrapped wooden dowels with green ribbon, and stuck them in a hurricane with moss and rocks. 

It was virtually impossible to find any Mario items locally, so I used my printer for a lot!

We let each guest choose either a Mario or Luigi hat.  (I cut out white felt and glued them onto the caps)  The girls got to choose a princess crown.  We also had coin bags where they collected the coins that they earned during game time.

Games -
We did several games.  The first one, I drew a Koopa, and the kids had to throw water balloons at it.  If they hit the Koopa picture they got too coins, if they hit his belly, they got three, and they got one if they didn't hit it at all.  We also did pass the Ka-bomb, a black balloon that is played like hot potato.  (The balloon kept popping on the grass...so we eventually used a ball).  We also played Pop the Goomba.  These were brown balloons that had coins in them.  They could pop as many as they could, and keep the coins.  They had 1-3 coins in them.  The last game we did "Break the Brick".  I had wrapped a box, and made it look like one of the Mario bricks.  The kids got to run under it and try to jump and smash it.  Inside was more coins, candy, etc.

Food -

We served mini sliders, which were a hit.  We also had Mario's Power Punch, Princess Peach's Peach Tea, and Luigi's Limeaid. 

The cake was made by Frosted Cakery.  It not only looked great, but tasted amazing!  I also did extra cupcakes decorated like mushrooms.  I used white chocolate chips, and melting chocolates for the spots. 

We also did a candy buffet favor bar, and everyone got to make a goody bag as they left!

Happy Birthday To...

It's very rare that I blog about my faults...but this one is pretty funny.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm a multi-tasker.  It can be a good thing...and a bad thing.  Apparently, when I booked Ethan's cake, I told them my older son, Colton's name.  When it arrived 30 minutes before the party, it looked like this...

Amazing looking cake...but wrong name.  Graciously the delivery girl took it back, and they had it fixed and delivered back to me in no time!  The Frosted Cakery girls are the best!!!

The cake turned out GREAT!  Everyone loved it, and it tasted as good as it looked!!

Briner Boys up at Bat!

This year Ethan and Dawson played on the Clovis Christian Orange Team.  It was a great season!  Not only did Ethan and Dawson get to be on the same team, but they also got to play with their cousins, Sam, Ben, and Peter.  They even got their dad and Uncle Eric to be their coaches!

This was Ethan's 3rd year of T-Ball, and took it very seriously.

He hit from his dad's pitches, and loved sliding in to home plate...look out Giants, here he comes!

Dawson on the other hand, was "here for the party"!  He loved seeing his cousins, and loved running the bases.

The last night after their game, the boys had an award ceremony where they all got trophies!  Great job Briner Boys!