Somehow, we ended up with invites to three parties this weekend. Mom figured we could use a little bit of fun after the crazy week and offered to hang out with Natalie, so we told everyone we would try our best to be there!
The first party was for one of Thomas’ classmates who also happens to be the son of a coworker. We’ve been to their house several times and the boys immediately took off to play as soon as we got there.
As a side note, their mom also offered to drop Thomas off at summer camp all last week while Natalie was in the hospital and Matt was out of town. Her two oldest were also going there and they live in the same neighborhood, so I don’t think it was too much extra burden for her. But it was a huge help to me!
The party had a western flair to it and the boys had a blast demanding I take their photos while they used all the fun photo props. I love Henry’s cheese-tastic smile on this one. :)
Then off to a party at one of Henry’s friends from daycare (also the son of a coworker - it’s a small town!). We loaned them our bouncy house for the party and all of the kids had a blast running around in the yard going crazy. That’s always dangerous at our house, but they don’t have dogs so their yard doesn’t have poop hiding everywhere. ;)
Of course, Thomas found this nerf gun and was entranced. He’s been doing archery at summer camp and it was a pretty similar firing mechanism. Surprisingly, he wasn’t asking for me to buy him one as soon as we left. I think they were both pretty exhausted already…
Final party of the day was actually back at the first house. Not only was there a birthday, they also had a moving party. The dad is getting transferred to the Midland office and they decided to just celebrate everything today! Come to think of it, the move to Texas might be what inspired the cowboy theme of the party…
Matt doesn’t always love going to coworker parties with me because we don’t really have many coworkers in common and he usually doesn’t know many people. But at this party, he managed to find himself! He found a coworker’s husband who is also into hunting and they spent most of the party (in their flannel shirts and camo hats) talking about various hunting trips.
I’m not sure he appreciated the twinkie-ness as much as I did. :)
Since the party was so close, we obviously walked there. On the way home, we decided to take a short cut through the green space behind our house. The boys thought bush-whacking was the coolest walk back home ever. I didn’t exactly have on the most appropriate shoes for it, but it was pretty fun!