Alex's Bounce Party!

Alex had his 5th birthday party last Saturday at Bounce Planet with many friends and family in attendance. In the days leading up to it, the party was all he could talk about, and really, how can you blame him?! Wouldn't you have killed for something like this when you were a kid?! (For those who are uninitiated into the bounce party place, Bounce Planet and other places like it are large indoor rooms with many inflatable bounce houses and slides and also separate rooms for parties.)

The guest list was wide and varied but Alex was so happy to have everyone at his party. In this picture from left to right are Jackson (neighbor), Lydia (neighbor), Katie (friend from MOPS), Nicholas (friend from MOPS), and Josie (neighbor).














Here are Nicholas and Alex going down one of the slides together. (PS, this big slide is my favorite part of Bounce Planet!)


















Here is Alex with Uncle Scott...or is that just a really big kid? Or both? :)















Here is Alex with his buddy Evan playing a little bounce basketball...

















Here is our little dare devil Andrew on the big slide! He had no fear in this place--he was a maniac!




















Everyone having a bouncing good time...
















After the bounce time was over it was time for CAKE!




















Alex loved having everyone sing happy birthday to him! Again!
















I had to throw this shot in because it is a rare sighting of me in action. I'm never in any of our pictures! Nice hat, by the way...















Some people who are not 5 yet had a bit of an issue with the cupcakes! I think Andrew is STILL on the sugar high from the 2 cupcakes that he ate!















Then it was onto presents! Wah hoo! Here is Alex opening up some cool 3D sidewalk chalk from Own and Lydia (neighbors).















Grandma and Grandpa Schoenherr and Uncle Scott and Aunt Cat got Alex a Tag reader. (Which he LOVES, by the way, if you are reading this Schoenherrs!)















After presents everyone got some tokens to play in the arcade. Alex couldn't quite get the hang of skee ball (or is it Ski ball?) but Daddy was able to help out.














Here are Daddy and Alex and Nicholas racing...