Drew's 9th Birthday!

For Drew's Birthday party this year he decided he wanted to have a huge party where he could invite all his friends & family to come and play and be crazy and there's no better place to do that than at Bouncin' Off the Walls. It's this great place with a bunch of inflatable slides and bounce houses with plenty of space for craziness.

He chose a Star Wars theme (but you don't really get a theme at this place, other than your cake and goody bags) so it was basically just total mayhem. He invited his entire basketball team as well as friends from school, old friends he hasn't seen in a while and all his cousins too.
Here's a fraction of the group...
















With this big of a group of kids comes this big of a pile of presents... 90% of them were LEGO's so of course he was in HEAVEN!


We decided not to go the LEGO route (which is always a tricky thing... you never know if he'll like the present you got him as much as he would if we had just gone with LEGO's, but seriously, the kid has more LEGO's than we know what to do with!)... so we got him an acoustic guitar and a book to teach yourself how to play. I promised him years ago that if he took piano first and really learned how to play well, then we'd get him a guitar and lessons (I told him every really good rock star learns the piano first). Well, he's been doing great at piano, but we still think he has a few years of it to go before graduating to guitar lessons. But we still thought the guitar would be a good thing in the meantime. He seemed happy with it and looks darn cute playing it.


The day of his actual birthday we went out to dinner at Olive Garden with Grandma & Grandpa Peterson and my nephew Devon. It's always fun to go out to dinner with the grandfolks:)

Also, in his class at school he was the "Super Star" for the week of his birthday so we made a fun poster all about him to display in his class. Then on Friday Jeff, Will & I went in and read his favorite book to the class and played a game of "All about Drew BINGO". It was really fun. I made a BINGO card full of fun facts about Drew with his photo in the middle as the free space. We went through it as a class and anyone who shared the fact in common with Drew got to place and "X" on that space. It was fun for everyone to see how much they had in common with him. All in all I think all in all he had a great birthday!

Drew is such a joy in our lives! He's smart, creative, thoughtful, happy and so much fun to spend time with. I am proud and honored to be his mom! Happy Birthday Drew! We love you!