Friday, July 16, 2010

Green Lantern turns 3!

**For those with Google Reader, you probably saw this post last night. I deleted it because the text was all wacky. Is anyone else having blogger problems?? I can't put text between pictures for some reason, so here it is, all up front:**


Last weekend we headed to El Paso to throw our 3-year-old his Superhero birthday party! Below is the invitation that went out. Stone was Green Lantern. The theme was Superheroes, and everything was green. We were a little superhero family. Cliff was Wolverine (grew out his chops--side burns--and all), I was Bat Girl (although Stone kept begging me to be Wonder Woman), and Emerson was Cat Woman.

Before his party, he kept saying, "I'm SO excited". Then, the first guest arrived (Cliff's grandpa), and Stone came running in, hiding in his tent. I asked what was wrong, and he said, "I'm SO shy!" Say what?! We all KNOW he doesn't get that from me!

It didn't take him long to warm up to the guests.

{The day before his party, Kevin (Cliff's dad) surprised him with a giant jumping castle. It was AWESOME. This thing kept getting bigger and bigger as it was inflated. That day, Stone went swimming with my dad (and did front flips off the diving board ALL BY HIMSELF), headed back to the Jessups to jump in the castle for a couple hours, then swam in a little pool at the Jessups. He then uttered words I NEVER thought I'd hear...."Mama. I'm DONE." And then he crashed. There's a first time for everything.}

Back to the party--Stone got awesome gifts from everyone, had a blast in the jumping castle, ate way too much candy, and ended the night with sparklers. Cliff's dad made enough food to feed a {large} army, and as usual, it was FABULOUS! THANK YOU, KEVIN!

A BIG thanks to everyone who came. It was an awesome party, and the next day, Stone asked if we could do it all over again. It's going to be a tough party to top!






























8 comments:

Iverson Family said...

What an awesome party! Brooklyn was looking at these with me and thought that was the coolest party she had ever seen! She loved Stone in all of them too! Great party planning :)

The Dalton's said...

What a fun party! Great costumes, too!

Bracken and Bracken said...

You sure throw an awesome party!! Wish we could have been there :)

Nick and Natalie said...

Your the best mom. It looks like so much fun!!!! I know he loved it. Happy Birthday Dude!

Tan+Charee+Chloe+Tru said...

how fun!!! love the invite it's so him, and his daddy!! so so cute!!

Connie said...

That was such a fun party! I love the pic of the 4 of you...Emerson looking at you like "I know that's my mommy, but something's different." and of course, Stone holding her hand. Such fun times!

Kristen and Andrew said...

WOW!!! will you please host my next birthday party?! How FUN!!!

amynicole said...

WOW! What a COOL party! Stone is one lucky boy! Everyone's costumes looked great!