Ski and Cadence's Birthday Party

October is a huge month in our family for birthdays and Anniversary's! My birthday is the 13th, our anniversary is the 16th, Cadence's birthday is the 19th and Ski's birthday is the 25th. Our birthdays are exactly 6 days apart from each other!

This year is a milestone for Ski. He turns 3o!!!! Caders turned 3!!! I couldn't let his 30th birthday go by without doing something special for him! Because we booked a trip to New York next month, Ski never suspected that I would have a party for him. He thought the party I was planning was for Cadence. Little did he know what I had in mind!!!

To get him out of the house while everyone showed up he was supposed to go golfing with our neighbors that day but there was a golf tournament on base so they couldn't do that. They decided to go fishing but it rained and was like 65 degrees that day so that was canceled also. Then he had to work at 8am so I was starting to get worried about how I was going to get him out of the house since I knew he wouldn't want to come home from work and go out again when he knew there was a party going on that night for Cadence. SO I had our friend Anthony call and ask him to come over and help him out in his garage! I knew if he felt obligated to help someone out then he would go. Here is a video clip below of his reaction when he walked in.

The Party...

The Birthday Girl!

The Birthday Boy!

Anthony and Shannon - he went to their house to help out in the garage!

Their birthday cake - Cadence LOVES Scooby Doo lately! She really wanted a Scooby Doo cake!

These are the Ice Cream Cone cakes I made for the littler kids!

Blowing out the candles!

She's loves being the center of attention!!! It's a "Ski" trait!

Ice Cream was running all down her sleeve!

I love this man!!

Jacqui was a HUGE help with the party! She did the deviled eggs, the bacon-wrapped jalapeno's, and she also helped do all the decorations!! Matt helped too - the way a 10 year old boy would help. He'd get distracted every 2 minutes with the balloons!

Cadence LOVES getting gifts!!!

The mastermind behind it all!

Preston and Caders - he likes to take her pillow because she carries it with her EVERYWHERE!!! She took it to Wal-Mart the other day and fell asleep in the basket with it! I stayed at the store an extra half hour just because I could shop in peace for once!!!

Dave, Tim and Mike - they talked recruiting all night!!!

Our neighbors Amber and Ken. They were a big help too in making this possible!

All the guys talking in the kitchen!