Hosting a Boy Sleepover

Fletcher's birthday always falls on Spring Break so celebrating with his friends is tricky.  Last year we weren't able to pull off a friend party.  This year I knew I had to plan one in early March before all the busy Spring Break plans started.  I texted his friend's parents to come up with a date that worked for everyone.  Then we got busy planning.

You know we've hosted Olive's friends for sleepovers for years.  Fletcher was excited to host his friends for his first birthday sleepover.  He had a good time.  However, we quickly learned that it's different to host a bunch of boys than a bunch of girls.  Hahaha.

The girls are easier to entertain, calmer and stick with activities longer.

The boys were crazy.  Fletcher would agree :)  They bounced from activity to activity very quickly.  Inside.  Outside.  Upstairs.  Downstairs.  Around the neighborhood.  Ate all the snacks and the house was loud.  It was a lot of fun, but took us a minute to recover from all the fun.

Fletcher picked donuts and pizza for the menu.

We loved putting together favor bags for the boys.

We grabbed Fletcher's favorite things - treats and gifts.  Dollar Tree has the best crazy socks, a butter squishy and a cross necklace for all the boys.  They loved it all!

We did a candy snackle box.  We also realized for the boys it might have been better to do individual treat bags or candy salad bags for each boy.  Some boys took tons and it wasn't divided up very equally.  Lesson learned.

A pizza buffet.

Gifts and games.  The had a blast.

Then I did a cereal bar for breakfast the next morning!  That was a hit.  We had a busy Saturday so a quick and easy breakfast worked perfect.  I like to get 3 kinds of cereals, milk and then let the kids pick their breakfast.

It was so fun to celebrate Fletcher with his buddies!

Fletcher is 10!

Happy Birthday, Fletcher!  Our favorite middle guy is 10!

Having a birthday that usually falls on Spring break is so fun!  We celebrated him with his buddies from school earlier this month, with family over the weekend and with a fun day of his favorite things yesterday.

10 fun facts about Fletcher:

1. He loves to cook and regularly offers to help me make dinner.

2. Fletcher loves to try new foods.

3. Nothing is too spicy for him.

4. Fishing and being on a lake is one of his favorite hobbies.

5. He really enjoys learning about history.

6. Fletcher has a great memory, has great people skills and has no problem talking to others one on one or in a crowd.

7. All animals love Fletcher.

8. Chess club is his favorite and the girls in his class voted him the nicest boy in the class.

9. He got baptized this year.

10. He loves to collect things - knives, lighters, airsoft guns, travel souvenirs, etc.

It's great to have a Spring Break birthday!

Fletch got a whittling set and made me a pencil.  He's working on carving a fish now.

Wingstop for dinner!  Fire hot wings are his favorite.

Homemade Lemon Bundt cake is his favorite.

Double digits!  I can hardly believe it!

Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, friends!  It's been the longest week ever.  On Wednesday, I was convinced it was Thursday and that makes the week feel extra long.  The big kids had several activties this week, it was Teacher Appreciation Week and Kevin mowed the yard for the first time.  It feels like Summer is just right around the corner.  We've got 24 days of school left with tons to pack in each day.

The best parts of the week were:

1. Rec Soccer.  Fletcher has been working so hard with his rec soccer team.  He loves playing with his school buddies and we're so proud of him for trying something brand new.

2. Cutest laundry helper.

3. These two always want to stop by the mall.  It's funny how every single item in Sephora feels like it's $20.  Olive found lip gloss that was $25 and Fletcher got some Touchland hand sanitizer for $10.

4. Costco and Sams trips with these two are always a favorite.  They love to try samples and stock up on good food for the week.

5. A new spring Stanley in your school colors is always a good idea.  Add in a handwritten mom & kid thank you note and my day is made.

We had yummy catered lunches and snack buffets.

The Spring decor was so cute!

My name was picked to win a beautiful hydrangea plant.

Isn't it lovely??

6. Olive's Mathletes team had an out of town tournament.  We road tripped there with Olive's BFF and her mom.  The questions were hard.  The competition was stiff.  But she did it!  Their team came in second losing by just a half a point on the very last question.  They were all so proud.  One of her all time favorite teachers runs the group and it was bittersweet to see their season come to an end.

7. I found this handsome guy on the playground.  They earned extra recess time after finishing their standardized testing.

8. My grocery store bouquet needed to have an Easter vibe thought Kevin and the big kids.

9. Sunset bike rides through the neighborhood are my favorite.  Sometimes we invite the boys and other times we sneak out solo.

10. I'm SO ready for the weekend!  I hope you have a wonderful Easter.

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Double Birthdays

Since the boy's birthdays are just 8 days apart, we started the tradition of celebrating them together with family.  They love to play video games together so we went with a colorful gaming themed party.  Olive designed their Canva invites for me to text out.  She's the best.  I bought plates and napkins and she made the invitations to coordinate.

I made their favorite bundt cake flavors for my side of the family party - lemon, Funfetti & yellow with chocolate.

I served a taco bar and this is the only picture I got.

5 & 9!  Fletcher noticed that they are Lightning McQueen numbers now :)

Sweet big sis.  She helped with all the boy's party stuff all weekend.

Uncle Ty building cars with Leo.

Mr. Mittens & my Dad.

The cousins!  They're all growing up way too fast!

Party #2!  We celebrated at Kevin's parent's house.

I made a fruit and veggie tray, chips, ordered pizza and donuts for dessert.

Kevin's mom always gets birthday balloons for the kids!

The weather was gross, but we still had a great time.

The boys got some really fun gifts and had the best time celebrating with family.

Mr Mittens was excited to have some birthday balloons to play with at home.

The boys loved having Spring Break parties and having extra home days to play with their new toys.