I told Connor he could have his party any place he wanted and gave him a
bunch of suggestions, but he decided he wanted to have it at our house
with a few of his closest buddies. He wanted to kayak and play with his
friends at Medical Lake (small lake in town with no motorized boats) and
then camp in our backyard and watch a movie outside on the projector. We had 9 boys: Connor, Ryan, Mason, Isaac, Josh, Josh's cousin Jon (who was staying with him), Raheem, Kaiden and Landry. I
bought the kids all water guns for the lake and a flash light for
camping. The party was Saturday 11:00 - Sunday 11:00. We served 3 types
of pizza for lunch and then loaded up the trailer with kayaks and went
to Medical Lake. For some reason the boat launch was closed so we had to
carry the kayaks down to the beach area. We made the kids wear life
vests even though most of them could swim really good... but with 9 kids
and just Jason and I to watch them we didn't want to take any chances. A
few of his friends brought their kayaks too. All the kids kayaked out
to the middle of the lake and then swam and played. Jason had his
snorkel and stayed by the boys to keep an eye on them. I had sent a
message to his friend Isaac, who was the only kid that didn't show up.
He forgot about the party and his mom hurried to drop him off, so I
stuck by the shore to meet them. They played at the lake from 2:00-5:30
then we loaded back up and came home. The kids had otter pops and ran
around the front yard playing while Jason BBQ the hamburgers. Then they
had a Nerf war in the basement. We sung Happy Birthday and had his Thin
Mint blizzard cake, followed by presents. The boys played with the Nerf
guns and we set up the tent outside. For the last 2 days we had great
weather during the day but then the smoke would roll in at night, so we
didn't want to set the tent and projector up early in case that happened
for his party too. Luckily it didn't though. But since we hadn't tested
the projector outside we decided to have the kids just watch the movie
on the projector downstairs instead. They watched Avengers Endgame.
Kaiden and Landry fell asleep during the movie, so I moved them into
their sleeping bags in the basement. Ryan decided to sleep down there
with them too. The rest of the boys went outside to visit before going
to sleep. Jon's dad (who he hadn't seen in 3 months) came and got him at
midnight. The rest of the kids went to bed somewhere around 12:30am.
Jason and I slept in our bed with the window open (which the boys were
right outside our window in the backyard). Surprisingly the kids were up
early at 7:30am. I made waffles and pancakes, Jason made bacon. The
kids had another Nerf war. Then everyone left. Isaac was the last and we
asked if he could stay longer to play with Connor. They played Lego's
and then we took him kayaking with us on Clear lake. We met Tom, Josh's
dad there and we all kayaked. Another fun birthday party in the books!
