Happy, Happy Birthday!

We celebrated the boys' birthdays yesterday at Chuck E. Cheese's!  The only one of us who had ever been was PC.  We had taken the kids to Mr. Gatti's in TX, which is basically the same thing, but we'd never been to Chuck E. Cheese's.  We had planned on going somewhere different, but as we looked at prices and realized the other place was really geared more towards bigger "kids," we decided Chuck E. Cheese's was the best deal.  We took Bucko's friend with us and also had cousins there.  They all had a blast!!  The two birthday boys got a huge Chuck E. balloon each, a birthday crown with more tokens in them, and a medallion. They loved it!  They also got a turn in the Ticket Blaster, which was fun for them as well.  We ordered the party online so we ended up with even more tokens. Plus, I had a coupon so we ordered a pizza for the adults and got more tokens.  We ended up with over 320 tokens!! And we used every last one of them! We were there for about 3 hours though!  We all did the sketchbook, so have pictures to keep.  They loved the roller coaster type rides a lot.  Tink kept trying to get more tickets, so she would do those games.  We would race the MarioKart game with each other and PC and I even competed in a basketball shooting game.  The little ones liked the small rides and play area.  There was plenty to keep everyone busy and happy!  And the food was good too!

I had shown Bucko these cupcakes on Pinterest that look like the Minions from Despicable Me.  He loved them, so I made those and also did some with some Lego Star Wars cupcake printables for Goofy.  Our hostess loved the Minions and said they were the coolest cupcakes she'd ever seen, so we shared since we still had a bunch left over.  Bucko got a new DS game, I Spy Universe.  He also received a gift card from his friend and some money from Grandma, so he went today and bought another DS game, Pokemon Soul Silver. 

Goofy was so excited when he opened his present. We had gone to Wal-Mart the day before and he had found this Bumblee costume from Transformers. He wanted it so bad and we kept telling him that maybe we'd come back and get it for his birthday. (We really bought it right then, but tried to keep that from him.)  He cried for almost an hour afterwards, which wore him out so much he took a nap!  He hasn't napped for a loooong time.  So when he opened that present, well, you can see the expression on his face.  As soon as we got home, he put it on and slept in it too.  (Tink helped him open the package and accidentally cut off the strap for the mask. She thought it was part of the packaging holding it in the box.  She felt so bad she started crying. Of course we were able to tie it all back together and it was fine.  I told her I've done things like that all the time and she didn't need to feel too bad.  Not that that really helps, but it's the truth. We all make mistakes.) 

They all redeemed their tickets at the end for prizes.  We ended up with 3 slinkys!  And then a bunch of other smaller prizes.  All in all, it was a fun time.  We were worn out at the end though!