Quinn's birthday was in May. He really wanted to have a sleepover birthday party this year. I can't believe how difficult it was to find a free evening and free morning for our family and some of his friends! It ended up being quite "belated" while waiting for baseball season to end but Q didn't mind. It was worth the wait. It's getting really hard at this age to set limits on the number of guests to the party. My kids are blessed with lots of friends! He had 6 friends who came over at 4:30 yesterday afternoon. We took them to play Paint Ball in Mishawaka. That was quite the fun but oh. so. hot! The boys wore long sleeves, sweatshirts and Nate even wore his winter coat. Apparently the paint balls sting when you get shot so they weren't taking any chances. They played for a good solid 2+ hours. I made all 7 boys take showers last night. They STUNK! haha
I had to run (fly via the car) Madison to the fair by 8:45 for the 3 on 3 BB game in the midst of the party. By the time we got home, ate pizza for supper, called the boys in from outside at 10:45 and had them all shower, it was midnight by the time we got to the presents and cake/icecream! It was a good thing it was a sleepover. We told them lights out by 2am, I have a feeling some stayed up longer than that. Benjamin won the award for having to get up the earliest, he had to get picked up at 7:15am to head to the fair. Logan won the award for sleeping in the latest, when Jake finally woke him up at 1pm! The last partier left at 3:30.
I had to laugh at Tony. He came off that paintball course FILTHY! I told him I think he enjoyed playing paint ball as much, if not more, than all the boys together. He agreed! He was the only one "so serious" by army-crawling through the woods to sneak up on the other team and was quite proud of himself that he took 4 surprised kids out in one ambush. Hilarious! Check out his picture in the bottom left hand corner. That's as close as I could get to him, while he stealthfully snuck around! LOL
It's been a great staycation so far! : )
2 comments:
How long do they get at this paintball thing , so many hours ? I CAN NOT imagine wearing winter clothes outside in 90 degrees . However it looks like Quinn had a great time at his belated birthday party.!!!! AND , a good time at the fair.
P.S. I just figured out the cake. I'm looking at it and looking at it , thinking "that doesn't quite look like airplanes, maybe dinasours ?" Duh, paint ball splats ! Boy, Leah you got an easy one on this BD.
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