Saturday, August 09, 2008

Happy Early 8th Birthday Ryan

We celebrated Ryan's 8th birthday today, a few days early. We took him and a few friends to Boondocks, a fun center about 50 minutes north of Spanish Fork. Deni had been purchasing gift certificates to Boondocks when they went on sale at 50% off. However even at 50% off it was still an expensive birthday party. We took our family (4 of us) plus 4 other kids, so a total of 8.

We left about 11am and headed up north. When we got to Boondocks, we started out by having lunch and eating pizza. Then Ryan opened presents. Although, we didn't give him our present. We wanted to keep it until his real birthday



Then a little cake (that Deni made.)



We then headed outside to ride go carts. They had to wait almost an hour in line to ride, however they got to drive their own go-carts.



Next we went in and played Laser Tag. The teams weren't even, but that's ok. It was Deni, myself, one other adult versus about 10 teenagers. I told them if they lost, then they really suck.

After Laser Tag, we headed back outside and did some putt-putt golf.



We then headed back inside again for the kids to use their 20 tokens. Most of them ended playing games that gave them tickets which allowed them to buy some little toys. It was quite the feat to keep an eye on six kids running all over, but we somehow kept them all together and didn't lose one.

Ryan ended up with the most tickets, thanks to his Mom. He left with 4 or 5 toys, one being a pretty cool "Captain Jack Sparrow" Pirate Hat (and fake hair.)

We headed home about 4:45pm. Roughly 6 hours chasing kids around and attempting to keep them all happy was tiring it was nice to take them home and have just the four of us again.

Ryan had quite the birthday party today.