Anything But Gray

Okay, okay, OKAY…..I am TRYING to keep up with my blog and I am getting SO SUPER frustrated at myself….here we go AGAIN. LOL

Ben's birthday was awesome, fantastic, fun…all of the above! It was a beautiful, sunshiny fall day and THAT made me so happy because last year his birthday was horrible, weather wise. It was rainy and cold and NOT the perfect sunshiny, warm fall September day made me fall in love with September….but this year, it was! Whoo-hooo!!

Ceci generously bought Ben's party decorations and he had a dinosaur theme. Ben and I also sat and designed an invitation for him, together. It was more for fun, as we didn't invite a ton of kids. Mostly just family, not friends from school or anything like that. But I thought it would be cool to design an invite with him and have him hand it out to the boys in the neighborhood that Jaime and him play with. There's four of them and when I sent Ben out the door with the invites I told him where I wanted him to go. I had a reason for this, I wasn't just being anal.  I wanted him to go to Kyle's first because he had left his sandals there. SO tell him, go to Kyle's, get your shoes and put them on, then go to Mitchell's and then over to Daniel's and then come back to the house and I will give you the last invitation to bring down to Matt's. I wanted him to come here first because I have to watch him walk down our road. I don't like either of the kids walking down our road by themselves as there is no sidewalk and people drive like complete assholes in this neighborhood. Although, upon reflection..what good is me watching them walk down the road? I mean, honestly….do I just want to see the get hit by a car or what? Because chances are if anything like that happens, I will be too far away to do anything but watch in horror….right? Right? Okay…so we've established that I'm sadistic moron…..so ANYWAY…Ben comes back from dropping off the first 3 invitations, with 1 invitation in his hand. I ask him who didn't get one? And he tells me no one got one because no one was home. Oh wait…he did give one to Mitchell. But he's only got 1 invite left so I ask him where did the other one go? And apparently he just gave it out to some little girl he's seen in the neighborhood! I explained to him that you can't just hand out an invitation to just anyone! LOL I think he gets it, but we'll see….pretty cute though.

The party went well and we had a great time. He got a ton of gift cards and he LOVES that. Ceci sent him a toy and movie and that came yesterday….Shelly and Scott and Kadin came and of course, all the family…Billejo and Juan, Seany and his new girlfriend and her daughter….of course Niki, Rick and Gabby and my mom. It was so nice to sit out in the sunshine and just chat and hang out with everyone. Zak made his cake for him and man did that get gone quick! We gotta remember next year to make two or get a big store one….LOL

All in all a fantastic day and I have a few pics to post of it……and more to sa y. This 6 thing….I don't know…it's hitting me harder than I thought. I just really can't believe Ben…Ben…is 6 !!! It's blowing my mind…..it just seems SO MUCH older than 5…like a world of difference.  And he's already ACTING older, which is cause of school, I think but it's still just mind blowing……just crazy how fast time flies……

CRAZY!