Friday, May 27, 2011

Sammy Turns Five!

I cannot believe how the time flies, Sammy is already five! (of course as I type this Chris and I are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary so I really feel like I am in super speed mode or something). He originally wanted a star wars party, suprise suprise. But I decided this year we would only invite the kids in his class and one other special friend, which meant there would be more girls then boys and as much as I think girls would LOVE running around getting the storm troopers, well needless to say I asked Sammy if there was any other thing he loved as much as Star Wars he replied, "Creations!" Which is true, he is nuts about making stuff out of trash. I decided to class it up a bit and go with painting party. This year I didn't want to go to the effort of making an entirely new fabric birthday bunting so I made one in photoshop instead in fun bright colors, then sewed it to some striped fabric.

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sammy
We ordered lots of paints
canvas
and brushes
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and everyone got their own canvas, crown, whistle and mask to decorate
lollies
When I ordered the puff balls they only sold them in 5 lb bags. Since I had no concept of puff ball weight I didn't realize the enormous amount that would be. This bowl was maybe 1/4 the bag. I have no idea what we are going to do with the rest ha!
puffballs
We borrowed the tables and Chairs from Liam's little school and had everything set up on our deck to keep the kids cool, in the shade and if by some randomness it rained dry.
tables
When the kids arrived they could pick an apron color (these were soooo easy to make, at first I thought I was nuts but after a dozen you get a rhythm goin') pick up their party bag, which had some very special art supplies they could use or save for later (yes they are pink and purple and the only gift bags I could find on the island. I thought Sam would mention it but he never did! Phew!)
treatbags
Then they could check out the chalkboard to decide what to do first.
chalkboard
Some how Abby got hold of one of the giant suckers and I swear every time I turned around she had a different one.
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Sam (who refused to cover up his Star Wars shirt) had a blast "creating" with all his friends.
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Briggs and Carmen, possibly Sammy's two favorite people in Timor at the same table!!
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Ava is the youngest in his class and such a sweet heart. She was unusually shy at the party, I think she was a bit overwhelmed.
ava
Raf is Sammy's buddy from Portugal and thankfully also likes Star Wars.
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I got a chance to try out the amazing face paint my friend Rachel brought me back from Aus and her cool step by step instruction book.
facepaint
Then the kids left their creations to dry and it was water play and snack time! (I thought it was pretty funny how one person painted a rainbow on their canvas and suddenly there were a bunch of rainbows ha!)
creationtable
Sammy's one food request was "iceblocks". I think this is an Australian thing? You basically take all different flavored cordials, water them down, pour them into plastic cups and freeze them. They then literally become flavored ice blocks. They sell them at the school as a fundraiser for the orphanage every Tuesday and Thursday and the kids go nuts about them.
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Sylvia and Vivian in the baby pool enjoying their blocks. I think Sylvia spent the majority of her time just chillin in that pool.
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Oscar tried out the slip n slide
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If they got cold in the water they could take a break and go get all sweaty on the bounce house.
bouncehouse
Shiyon is from Korea and I swear she and her mom are the most stylish people I know I would die for some hand me downs.
shiyon
After lunch it was cake time! Okay so I worked pretty hard on this cake, despite the fact that it looks so plain.
cake1
I have been following THIS blog for a while and she did THIS cake that I thought would be perfect.
sammyliamcake
I have got to learn how to ice a cake well.
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I even bought one of those special paddle tools and it didn't help much ha!
Liam was pretty excited himself.
liamcake
We got to hear "Happy Birthday" the Aussie way, Italian way and Portuguese way.
kidscake2
Sammy was able to blow out the one candle in one blow.
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The kids were pretty excited when they saw the cake cut, even when the icing started melting and the cake was sliding apart ha!
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I warned the parents that the amount of food coloring may send them to the hospital
briggscake
Abby enjoyed the cake... oh wait no she was working on her fifth lollipop probably at that point. This one she didn't even bother having someone take off the wrapper she just muscled through it.
abbylolli
Sammy seemed to have a great time and got some really fun presents to remind him of Timor.
The next day on his actual birthday I made our traditional train shaped cake and we gave him the presents from us. He just about died when he opened the remote control R2D2 and do you know who else loves him? Abby.
abbytoys
Abby is so crazy about R2D2 that even if she is playing with another toy she will lock her legs around R2 so you can't get him. And if you try, she WILL bite you.
abbybite
Luckily Sammy is a pretty darn good sharer so he doesn't get bitten too often ha!
In other news we have less then 3 weeks here in Timor! We cannot believe how fast it has gone. We are all packed for our big family vacation with the Crawford's (Chris and I are retracing the last half of our honeymoon, Disneyland then Mexico... yup I said last half, our honeymoon was legendary ha!) then we have my little sisters wedding to get ready for! Once again I will be the super preggy one hiding in the back of all the photos. I don't know if I will blog again from Timor, now that is a weird feeling. Hopefully I will gather enough energy (the stomach flu has ripped through our house hold this week) to get a goodbye party together so we can say good bye to all our friends. Just thinking about it makes me kinda tired though ha! As does thinking about the 13 hour flight we will take from Sydney to LA ahhhhhh! Prayers for that are welcome :)



6 comments:

Bonnie said...

Wow, Kelly, that party looks so fun. I love Abby and those suckers- that is just what my Abby would do- grab the sweets on a stick and eat through the plastic, ha ha! Good luck with the rest of your time in Timor!
P.S. I finally just looked at your sewing blog, and I am in love! I have plans to try at least 3 or 4 of your little girl dresses (from your Abby to mine), even though I am as beginner as they come... unless you want to count my days in high school home ec! I made a sweatshirt, boxers, and pillow cases- watch out!

Jan said...

Kelly, Super party again. I'm sure Sammy loved it as did all the kiddos. Abby is so adorable. Even biting Chris's hand as he tries to get R2D2. It looked so cheerful and colorful. I know you are always pretty warm there but we would love to have some of that hot weather. Tomorrow is the first of June and I am still wearing sweatshirts everyday. See you SOON!

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