Happy Birthday Tyler

21 Mar 2009

Today was Tyler's birthday!!! Yay, the big #7. He's been wanting to go to Chuck E. Cheese's ever since they started playing Chuck E. Cheese commercials at every commercial break on Nickelodeon last summer. So I told him to invite 3 three friends and we would go. Unfortunately, two of his friends couldn't come so it was just us and Addison White, his friend from church. The upside is that Derek and I got to use the other kids' tokens. It's a little expensive if you have a lot of kids ($10.99 per) but Chuck E. Cheese's is a really great place for a birthday party. They do everything for the party plus give every kid 40 tokens (usually $.25 each). All I had to do was show up with a cake and a present. It was really nice for me. Here are our pictures.

This is the cake I made. I got the idea from a cake that I saw at the grocery store. It's a little woggley because it's all buttercream frosting...oh, yeah...and I made it at 2:00 in the morning.

Here are the kids eating pizza - well, mostly goofing off - but eating a little pizza.

This is a game where your friend points the camera at you and your body is superimposed into the video playing on the big screen. You can see Tyler in the TV on the top left. This was by far their favorite thing to do.

Here is Chuck giving Tyler the traditional birthday gold medal. Tyler loved it but I'm not so sure about Chuck. He didn't talk but his body language gave me the impression that he might really hate his job.

Tyler got lots of presents but to save time I put them all in one big box. I think he kind of liked seeing everything all together like that. He got a ninja weapon set, a new Wimpy Kid book, a light saber, bakugan (don't ask) and a Batman action figure.

Here Tyler is using the force to...um...do something awesome I'm sure. (What do I know about it, I'm just a girl.)

Tyler's first experience with air hockey - he loves it.

Derek couldn't find a Thomas train so he settled on the Barney train (which suspiciously looks A LOT like Thomas...hmmmm)