Day: July 27, 2009

Boys' Bibleman Birthday Blast!

| Stacy
Beau will turn 9 in a few weeks and Champ turned 7 a few weeks ago.
We celebrated last night with many of our friends.
I am always left feeling so blessed after a party.
God has been so generous in offering us such good people to know.
The boys picked a Bibleman theme.
After the kids arrived a played a little bit, they were invited to decorate a t-shirt.
Blue for Beau’s team and green for Champ’s.
They weren’t by age, but just how Mama divided them out.
In the Bibleman movies, the heroes enter a chamber for “Full Armor Sequence,” to don their Full Armor of God. Here we had Hanes 50/50 shirts and some fabric markers. 😉



After they went to play some Bibleman’s Scripture Slam, a/k/a kickball, the Righteous Warriors vs. the Scripture Sentries.
I think it was mostly friendly. It is hard to find a game that 4 and 5 year olds can play alongside 10 year olds. Many of the dads stepped in to play… I mean, help. 😉

The Warriors and Sentries then headed over to the recharge station for food.
And then we did the pinata.
We skipped the blindfold, b/c I was too lazy to go back in the house and find one.
See below RE: pinata.


I have no idea what Beau is doing here… but it is so funny.

What was left of the shark pinata made a great hat.

Skeezix ate and ate and ate all night. When she wasn’t keeping up with the boys!
We were blessed with many fun, new, thoughtful gifts.

And of course, CAKE. And some goofy grins to boot!

The party wasn’t perfect.

JB made a point of saying last night that we won’t do pinata’s anymore for the boys.

The boys and their guests are simply getting too big. Or our parties are getting too large. But I would rather have no pinata than less FRIENDS! I had about 9-10 pounds of candy in that poor shark pinata and some of the little kids got, um, ZERO. Even with asking the bigger kids to share some, it didn’t go well. And I just have to admit that the pinata idea doesn’t fit These Disciples’ idea of what a party should look like. If we just had kids of all one age, or have our kids only invite as many guests as how many years old they are, then maybe it could continue. But we like to invite families and we don’t ask the kids to try to identify some of their friends as “worth” inviting. Pretty much anyone they see and play with and call a friend is someone we want to celebrate with.

The other “downer,” was related to food safety. We had a number of food allergies present last night. Not only our own peanut, tree nut, soy, sesame, pea, and bean allergies, but we also had three other kids with peanut and soy allergies, as well as beef, pork, milk [x3], tapioca, seafood, gelatin allergies. In my efforts to keed all anaphylactic-reaction-causing foods off the table, I totally failed to remember one guests’ intolerance to food dye. 😦 I am grateful that he and his parents were so gracious and forgiving. Thankfully, he came with his own, safe, cake!

Boys’ Bibleman Birthday Blast!

| Stacy
Beau will turn 9 in a few weeks and Champ turned 7 a few weeks ago.
We celebrated last night with many of our friends.
I am always left feeling so blessed after a party.
God has been so generous in offering us such good people to know.
The boys picked a Bibleman theme.
After the kids arrived a played a little bit, they were invited to decorate a t-shirt.
Blue for Beau’s team and green for Champ’s.
They weren’t by age, but just how Mama divided them out.
In the Bibleman movies, the heroes enter a chamber for “Full Armor Sequence,” to don their Full Armor of God. Here we had Hanes 50/50 shirts and some fabric markers. 😉



After they went to play some Bibleman’s Scripture Slam, a/k/a kickball, the Righteous Warriors vs. the Scripture Sentries.
I think it was mostly friendly. It is hard to find a game that 4 and 5 year olds can play alongside 10 year olds. Many of the dads stepped in to play… I mean, help. 😉

The Warriors and Sentries then headed over to the recharge station for food.
And then we did the pinata.
We skipped the blindfold, b/c I was too lazy to go back in the house and find one.
See below RE: pinata.


I have no idea what Beau is doing here… but it is so funny.

What was left of the shark pinata made a great hat.

Skeezix ate and ate and ate all night. When she wasn’t keeping up with the boys!
We were blessed with many fun, new, thoughtful gifts.

And of course, CAKE. And some goofy grins to boot!

The party wasn’t perfect.

JB made a point of saying last night that we won’t do pinata’s anymore for the boys.

The boys and their guests are simply getting too big. Or our parties are getting too large. But I would rather have no pinata than less FRIENDS! I had about 9-10 pounds of candy in that poor shark pinata and some of the little kids got, um, ZERO. Even with asking the bigger kids to share some, it didn’t go well. And I just have to admit that the pinata idea doesn’t fit These Disciples’ idea of what a party should look like. If we just had kids of all one age, or have our kids only invite as many guests as how many years old they are, then maybe it could continue. But we like to invite families and we don’t ask the kids to try to identify some of their friends as “worth” inviting. Pretty much anyone they see and play with and call a friend is someone we want to celebrate with.

The other “downer,” was related to food safety. We had a number of food allergies present last night. Not only our own peanut, tree nut, soy, sesame, pea, and bean allergies, but we also had three other kids with peanut and soy allergies, as well as beef, pork, milk [x3], tapioca, seafood, gelatin allergies. In my efforts to keed all anaphylactic-reaction-causing foods off the table, I totally failed to remember one guests’ intolerance to food dye. 😦 I am grateful that he and his parents were so gracious and forgiving. Thankfully, he came with his own, safe, cake!