Tie Dye Birthday

We had T's Birthday party at Wacky Tacky today. That place is so much more fun when there's not 50 random kids running around, I didn't previously realize that when they do parties it's closed to the public. That or we were just lucky. Either way: awesome.

Annoyed at the camera and still incredibly
handsome

Ronnie forgot his camera, so he used mine, but after awhile we all started playing with the kids on the slide or shooting each other with the ball guns. Crazy amounts of fun! There's something about the parents, grandparents, and kids all throwing foam balls at each other that just makes you smile inside.

When it was time for food and cake Ronnie was tired of being in charge of pictures (all the ones he was taking were too dark to see) and asked me to capture the moment. I choose to do the tourist thing and take pictures of everyone, non stop. Annoying to them, entertaining to me. Sadly, it's much more entertaining (and successful) to pester the adults with a camera. I failed in my picture taking responsibilities!

Evelyn LOVED the pizza! It's so funny to see a 2 year old just going to town on a large slice of pizza. Hard to capture with a camera though.

She loves her cupcakes too, but true to current form she only eats the icing. Yuck!

The kids all got balloon swords, and while they ate the Ron's battled with them. Ronnie got a bit cocky and started attacking his wife with his balloon... she won. He then retreated to comparing balloon sizes with Cliff and finally they both teamed up on Alex and poked at him instead. If at first you don't succeed... find a smaller victim.

Even though it ended up being very late by the time we started, Cliff and I did tie dye shirts with the boys. I've been planning it for weeks trying to figure out the best way to fold a shirt, dye it, etc and I had all the supplies ready. I was hoping to have them done by Evelyn's birthday so that where ever we go it would be easy to spot my litter, and today was the last day to get to do it with Cliff as well.

Time wouldn't have been a issue but the size 10/12 shirts I got for Alex shrunk to a 4/6 in the cold wash so I had to return them *hassle!* and soak them before we could start. Even better, I bought a kit with 12 colors, so Cliff and I started filling the bottles and about 6 bottles filled with dyes (pink, purple, light green, dark green, light blue, dark blue) we realized the stupid kit came with 12 colors, and only 8 bottles. It had it's challenges, but all the shirts are dyed and in bags to be washed tomorrow.

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