Birthday Fun at Chuck E. Cheese

We celebrated Sawyer's 4th birthday last weekend with a party at Chuck E. Cheese and nine of his favorite friends and cousins. He had to have a Chuck E. party since his friend Walker had one this past November, and it was tons of fun. Fortunately, it was my kind of party - the kind where you just have to bring some cupcakes and show up. They had a party planner assigned to us, and she did everything from serving all the food to telling us when and where to go and what to do. Nice!

WARNING: This post is ridiculously photo heavy! Ya know, so you can all pretend like you were actually there with us (without having to have been suffocating in a crowd of two to seven year olds and masses of noise and flashing lights for three hours!)

Sawyer, Sutton, Brooklyn & Hattie

Cousins Ryland, Rachel & Jonathan (and Aunt Jolie too)


Cousin Stella

Hattie & Sawyer

Sutton playing a little air hockey

Holly & Hattie getting their Skee Ball on

Aunt Krista, Uncle Joe & Aunt Kari

Sleepy Stella

Mitch & Sutton winning lots of tickets for the big prizes

Lunch time!

The kids dancing in front of a blue screen - the television monitors in front of and above them showed them dancing around in the ocean with a bunch of fish and turtles.

Chuck E. Cheese crowning the birthday boy

Sawyer and the HUGE smile that he wore all day. He was incredibly proud of his birthday crown, and he wore it ALL day long...until he had to take it off at bedtime!

Cupcake time!

He actually blew out the candles halfway through everyone singing him "Happy Birthday" :)

Sawyer & Hattie with the big guy himself

Sutton take a whack at a kiddy version of Whack-a-Mole

Sawyer & Walker monopolized the air hockey table for a really, really long time. Those kids are GOOD!

Back at home, it was time for presents!

Uncle Jim got him "my very own REAL shovel!" (which was truly the biggest hit of the day!)

Hattie got him this Curious George game and a really cool human body book set. He got tons of fun presents, and as soon as I am feeling a little better, we'll be sitting down to send everyone their special thank you notes! Thanks to everyone for coming and spending such a fun day with us! xoxo