This year when we asked Ben what he wanted to do for his birthday, he said he wanted to have a friend sleep over. He has never had a friend sleep over so we agreed that instead of having a party we would let him have his friend Braden stay the night and we would take them to do some fun things that Ben chose to do. Of course, since he is still into Star Wars, we had our second Star Wars themed evening. Earle and I felt kind of like this was a lame excuse for a kid's birthday because there was no planning, etc...but Ben loved it! He had a cookie cake that we just stuck some of his star wars characters on, but it had lots of chocolate icing. And we openend a few presents from family and Braden. Then he asked to go see, "The Nanny Returns", and he picked Mission Burrito for dinner. The boys thought that they were so big and cool! They had grand plans of staying up all night. We let them talk this up, then at 11pm after some focused Wii and XBOX time, we told them that it was time for bed, and in about 5 minutes they were sound asleep! It was a fun night!
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| This card Collin picked out and it streched out and when you got it completely extended it played "Happy Birthday" on the guitar... |
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| Collin really wanted his card back.... |
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| I would say that this is the Jedi himself, but Ben tells me that this Anakin costume is the one after he turns to the darkside... |
Happy Birthday Ben!! We love you and are so proud of you! We can't believe you are 6!!
CB
