Back 2 School Party

I decided I wanted to throw a cute little back to school party for my kids to help them get excited for the new school year. I found a few free cute and simple printables on Pinterest that I printed out and then went to work making a family dinner a little bit more memorable for my sweet little chicklets. I didn't do anything extravagant for dinner. I made Knock off P.F. Chang's Turkey lettuce wraps, had Strawberry milk for the kids to drink and some veggies. For dessert, I made the kids some cinnamon rolls. Typically Kaleb doesn't get to gaga for desserts but I do know that he enjoys cinnamon rolls, so I made them for him. Karmindy loves all things sweet so she was easy to please. For their little favors, I made them little snack bags filled with chocolate-covered pretzels for an afternoon snack. Kaleb and Karmindy had a fun time at our Back to School little dinner party. It was a fun tradition to start with our family! I hope the kids have a great year. After dinner, it is also a tradition to have Mark give the kids gave priesthood blessings/father's blessings. Mark does a wonderful job with giving the kids blessings, and I am so grateful to have a worthy priesthood holder in my home. Mark blessed the kids that they would do well in school this year, blessed them to make friends and be good friends, and to choose the right. I am so grateful that Kaleb and Karmindy have such a good daddy! We love you Kaleb and Karmindy and are so proud of you both!

Back to School Movie Party

I thought it would be fun to throw a Back to School Movie Party for Kaleb and a few of his friends. We invited 9 boys! (What was I thinking?)  Kaleb invited: Jake Wallin, Connor Maynard, Tevan Albrecht, Eli White, Jaden Epley and Thayne Ward. His friend Caleb Bradford couldn't make it that night. Kaleb got on board with the idea of having a party pretty quick (it didn't take much convincing) and was so excited to get together with his friends.

I found some cute movie ticket invitations on line and so we printed enough of them out for Kaleb to give to his friends. Kaleb decided he wanted to watch "TRON" for the movie the night of his party. We ordered pizza, had little cans of different kinds soda's for the boys to pick from and then had several bowls of movie-sized candy's to pick from. We also had popcorn and oreos too!
When the boys arrived, they decided on having a gun war and enjoyed chasing each other around the house and yard. This was a good reminder of  why I do not have 9 children; especially boys! Having two children is more my pace! However, the boys all seemed to have fun and Karmindy enjoyed trailing after all of Kaleb's friends. They boys were really nice with Karmindy and included her! She was on cloud 9 with all that manly attention!

After the gun war and we were able to get the boys to settle down...(sort of) we ate pizza and then after dinner retired to the family room to watch the movie. The boys were pretty calm through the movie but there was popcorn everywhere!! It was like a popcorn bomb had gone off. In fact, I am still finding popcorn in random places!! I guess that means the boys had fun and I am glad they did. Kaleb said it was the best party ever! I am glad Kaleb had fun with his friends and had a memorable party!!