The Party

Tonight was the family party. The trade off for Noah's huge shopping spree was that we had a small family party instead of the big party at fill in the blank expensive location with a full meal and all that stuff. I think it was a lot of fun and the Spongebob decor was so cool!

I tried to make blue punch to go along with the under the sea theme, but I couldn't find white cranberry juice that was called for, and using a slightly more yellow juice made the punch turn out green (not sure you can see it in the pic). Corey said the green was more like ocean water anyway, ha ha.

Katie wanted her picture with Spongebob.

Noah got more money for some more shopping!!! Yay! ha ha. He wants to use the rest of his money on new Nintendo DS games.

New pjs from Katie.

Katie the photographer. She got several treats as well. :)

Noah, like Katie at her 6th, was able to read all his birthday cards with the exception of a few words. What a guy! :)

Iron Man toys!

New rain boots from Chris and Hannah! Much needed after the recent growth spurt!

Spongebob with his cake.

The guests....

Noah and Nanna...(Uncle Ben was there, but no pic)

Maw Maw (my grandmother) and Katie and Noah

My mom and dad...Meme and Grandpa with the kids
(with some tiny friends)

Uncle Chris (my brother) and Aunt, er...I mean, Hannah. ha ha.

And a parting word from Katie.
A great time was had by all!
This party if officially over!

All About Noah, 6-23-10

Stats:
Noah Carter Thompson
height: 3 feet, 9 1/2 inches (45 1/2 inches)
weight: 45 lbs

Favorites:
color: yellow
regular food: corn
sweet food: ice cream
tv show: Phineas and Ferb
movie: Toy Story 3
thing to do: play video games
restaurant: Cracker Barrel
book: How Do Animals Sleep
school activity: handwriting

Happy Birthday Noah! Be sure to scroll down and read all about his birthday celebration shopping spree last night! :)

AND Happy Anniversary to Andy and Bethany!!! 9 years!

Noah's 6th Birthday!

Happy Birthday to our awesome son: Noah Carter Thompson!
I can't believe it!!!!! He is 6 now, the baby is six!!!!!

We surprised Noah with a shopping spree for his birthday! Well, he knew he wanted to do a shopping spree, but he didn't know it was going to be tonight! Here he is, in the driveway, opening his gift: (why we were in the driveway will be explained in a later post, stay tuned for that great story soon! It also contributes to why we switched to doing the shopping tonight!)

Lots o'money.......

$250 shopping spree!!!!! WOW!!!!!

and now....

This is after we told him we were going shopping TONIGHT!!!!!! He was so excited and surprised! He thought he had to wait until Saturday after his party!
But, we like to do something special on their "actual" birthday. Tomorrow evening we will be at church for musical practice, and Corey has band practice. We had discussed doing breakfast but a few other things just made us decide to do it tonight.
Yeah, $250 is a lot of money for a 6 year old to spend at the toy store...but we do big birthdays around here, especially with our three gift Christmas tradition (which I will be forever grateful for our friends sharing that idea with us...its such a great tradition!), birthday is the time we do a big party and believe me, this $250 shopping spree was a better "deal" than Chuck E. for sure! ha ha ha!

I think Corey had just as much fun as Noah did, browsing the aisles. I was afraid it was going to take forever for him to choose what he wanted, but after the first item finally got put in the cart, the rest went a little easier, ha ha.

Noah showing off some of his goods.

We don't usually do the whole sibling getting a gift on the other ones party day, but after Katie walked patiently around with Noah getting all kinds of cool stuff and not complaining...she did get a little something too. :)

After shopping spree dinner.

Noah with all his goodies:
a skateboard (with training handle for beginners)
a pogo stick (very cool with a wide base attachment for learning)
Nerf N-Strike video game
a pack of bakugan toys
pokemon cards
walkie talkies
2 matchbox cars
a helmet
a giant nerf type gun (toys r us brand)
an electric drum set
and Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii.
I think he spent his money very wisely on some cool big stuff and little things too.
When we first got home, Corey, Katie, and Noah all enjoyed a little treat from her choice of toy.....

A classic Snoopy snow cone maker. It actually works! I always wanted one of those when I was little! ha ha!

After a very quick blitz playing with each thing for a couple of minutes....

We all said goodnight, and Happy Birthday to Noah who will greet his 6th birthday with a ton of new toys to enjoy in celebration!
We have a small party planned with all the grandparents and uncles on Friday with cake and ice cream.... his trade off for the "big friend party" for the shopping spree. I don't think he will have any complaints! :)
Tune in later for a complete run down of the first part of our day... which resulted in our leaving the house as much as possible tonight, and opening his gift in the driveway! Part of it involves me washing my hands with bottled water as well..you won't wanna miss it! :)

SURPRISE!

YAY! We did it! We pulled off a surprise party for Corey's 30th birthday!!!!
Although the entire plan for the party changed only TWO days before, it turned out to be PERFECT! He was VERY surprised! The family did a great job keeping it all a secret!

The cake, and some of the guests...

He opened many sweet cards, and funny gifts...including this one from lifelong friend, Andy...

I was very proud of the gift we got him as well...
Tickets for the Braves and Cubs...AT Wrigley Field!!!!
Yay, we're gonna speed up to Chicago in August for the game!
(and we have till then to figure out how to do it, lol!)
He received money and gift cards that will help!

When we had to change the party VERY last minute, we ended up switching from a Friday night party to tonight... and NO restaurants would take reservations for a large party on a Friday night....BUT it turned out to be perfect because Thursday night at El Nopal is.....

Mariachi Band Night! YAY!
Not only did he get the sombrero and song...he got a full band too! It was awesome!

They sounded so great! It was like we had planned it this way from the beginning....ha ha!

Of course, the kids had to try on the sombrero...

We left the band members and servers so they could clean up our table and not take much more of their time, but we gave them some cake for their trouble...
And went outside for pictures!

Corey and Memaw (we missed you Grandaddy!)

My parents getting practice standing with a 30 year old...
(I'll be there next year)

Corey with Memaw and Pawpaw

And the Birthday Boy with his own parents.... his mom's Mother's Day gift 30 years ago... the birth of her first child.

Our family

And, Corey with Andy...friends since kindergarten...and silly as ever for pictures. We were thrilled that it worked out so well for Andy to have to get away from Bethany for the weekend...(haha, click link for explanation) while she had a treatment done, and we missed her terribly, but it worked out GREAT for them to be able to make it up for the party! yay!

Katie with Kaidence

The kids, copying their dads with the silly picture

Brothers....

His other brother and sister in law were there too, but left before we got pictures with them.


And one final picture....taken at home later after the party during the after party visit with the Freeman crew.
If these two don't get married, we have to make a slide show anyway... we have too many cute ones to not show the world! ha ha!
Katie and Canaan...
I asked Katie if Canaan was back on her "love list" and she replied, "Canaan has always been on my love list!"

I am so thrilled that the party went well and that he was SURPRISED! We are so blessed with GREAT friends and family....such a blast!!!!

Corey will be at the beach on his actual birthday...May 11th, so I am happy we were able to celebrate with everyone before we go!