Early Birthday Party For Cannon

Cannon has been planning his birthday party for months!  I was so sad when I realized that we will have already moved to Texas before his birthday, so I asked him if he would like to have an early birthday party with his friends.  He was very excited at the thought of having two birthday parties!

I asked him what kind of cake he wanted - Star Wars.  And he said he wanted a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.  I asked him how he wanted to decorate it and he pretty much designed it and decorated it himself (I frosted it).  He really wanted crushed oreos on top of the cake.  Then he found some little wooden people to be Hans Solo and Luke Skywalker.  Each one has a "light-saver" (the pencil and the golf tee) and then he added the red rocket, the American flag, and the number 5 that he picked out at the store.  I was going to get some Star Wars cake toppers, but his imagination was way better than anything I could have purchased!  He was quite proud of it too! 

Ryan had to be out of town for his party, however we were very happy to have Bev and her three kids here to celebrate!

I set up a little craft table so the kids could make Cannon a picture or write him a special note.  Then when I get around to it, I'll make a special scrapbook so Cannon can remember all of his friends.  We are sure going to miss them all!  The kids that came to his party were: Micah, Savannah, and baby Eli, Peyton and baby Reece, Joseph and James, Anna and Kate, Christopher, and of course Jade, JT, and Ally.  

JT totally photo-bombed us!!

The water was freezing, but the kids didn't seem to mind it!

James, Joseph, and Peyton were pretending to shoot the kids in the pool. 

Love my little guy, Eli!  He was content just hanging out in the wagon.