Saturday, August 11, 2007

Alec's 5th Birthday Party!

Today was Alec's 5th Birthday Party and it was a BLAST. I just can't get over the fact that my little boy is getting ready to turn FIVE soon! It is just unreal to me.

This year Alec wanted a Finding Nemo Fishing Party. So that is exactly what we did! We had the party at Sippo Lake in the Clubhouse. When my mom and I first got there we had NO POWER. The bad storms we got the other day had knocked out half the power to the lake area so we only had working power in the outlets. No air conditioner and worse...NO LIGHTS! We got everything ready virtually in the semi-dark (there was light coming in from outside) and tried to make the best of it all! Then, low and behold, the power came back a few minutes into the party! A miracle...trust me!

Alec had a great time with all of his friends. I had crafts for them and that was sooooo much fun. They did the crafts after we ate and then we moved onto the cake and gifts! Alec got a ton of wonderful gifts and he is on SUCH a high tonight from all of it. After we opened up the gifts we went out on the patio to tear up that Nemo Pinata:-) The kids TORE into the prizes once they dropped! It was soooooooooo adorable. After they did the Pinata they were off to the lake to fish. It was a wonderful time and Alec loved being able to hang out with all of his friends at his party!

Thank you to all of you who came today and made this a wonderful day for my son. He has talked about it all day and had such an amazing day. I am so glad that we have so many wonderful friends and family that were able to make this day special for Alec. He is the sweetest boy and deserved to have a wonderful day like today! So thank you everyone....today was so incredible!

Enjoying the Food

We decorated the tables with seashells and bowls of Goldfish

The cake table before Kris brought the cake in

Cake!

I love this pic of Tara and Devon

Alec and Tony trying to hear the ocean in the shells

Grandma Di and Mikayla

Walking Around!

My dad and Mikayla

Papa....give me some please!

Birthday Boy!

Bringing Mikayla in to the party

Craft Time!!!

Making the door hangers

Smiling at the crafts

Look at Haylee....right by Alec

He wanted this fishing pole sooooooo bad...so this was from us

More Gifts



Cake Time!

Look at those cheeks blowing out the candles!


Party Kids!

Pinata Time


Going for the LOOT!



Is this party over yet? I need a nap!

Me and my beautiful children

My mom and dad and Alec!

Mommy and the Birthday Boy!

Sweet Camille!

Walking on the Pier!

Alec and his new pole!

I can walk! And I am PROUD!

Fishin' Away

A view from afar

I adore this picture of Tara, Curly, Devon, and Logan. Look how happy they are! This is a great candid shot.

Logan...my little man!

14 comments:

Tara said...

We had an AWESOME time today partying and fishing with you guys!!! Happy Birthday Big Boy Alec! Everything was so great....the theme, decorations, food, cake, the fun!

Kim said...

Happy Birthday Alec - looks like you had a great party!!

JuJu - said...

Your baby girl is starting to look like a big girl:)

Happy Birthday sweet Alec - you ae a handsome fellow:)

You have a really cool family Mindy:)

Julia:)

Natalie C. said...

looks like ya'll had fun...happy birthday alec!

Anonymous said...

What a wonderful party it was~ To see how happy Alec was and when he said not once but a couple of times "This is just the best day of my whole life" so innocently! He just loved everything about the whole day and so did we!!! It was a great party honey and SO much fun! p.s. Loved the music too!! Your dad and I love you all so much and have to say we are sad that Alec is already going to be 5 yrs. old :(
We want to stop time right now and just enjoy every second the way things are. Guess we can't do that, the clock keeps ticking......
Mom

Melissa De Mers said...

Looks like a rockin' party!! Glad you all had fun, wish we could've been there. :o)

Alec, please watch in the mail for a box to arrive from my Haylee Gabrielle. She sent you a bday gift. Hope you like it.

Love bunches,
Melissa & Haylee

Steve & Amy said...

Wow! What a party!! Looks like everyone had a great time!!! Happy birth Alec!!!

Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Alec!
Looks like had a fun party~ Ethan wanted that rocket fishing rod really bad and he got that at his party also!! What fun little boys they are....
Paula

EB said...

looks like it was a GREAT PARTY, Happy Birthday Alec

Anonymous said...

Mindy,
You throw the best parties! Look how happy those kiddos look! I am so sorry we had to miss it. Happy birthday, Alec!
NiCole

Blessed Mommy said...

HAPPY B-DAY ALEC -- and i'm so glad that you liked all the guat goods :)

Crystal said...

Mindy--hey you!!! How are you guys doing?!!! Hey My sweet Caleb turned 5 in May and I could not believe it!!! My hubby and I kept saying where did the time go?! I am loivng this five year old birthday party!!!! TOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be by more often--I am sorry I have been slacking on the blog!!! :O)

Megan said...

Happy Birthday, Sweet boy!!! What a great family and such an awesome big brother!! Enjoy your birthday month ;)

Jaime said...

Yea!! Happy Birthday Alec! Looks like you had a blast!