Happy Birthday Mr. Grant!

To add to the hectic week, I had Grant's birthday party on Thursday of Homecoming week.  It really was either now or in about 4 weeks.  So I "took one for the team" so to speak.  Who needs sleep anyway right?

It all started with this cute invitation!  And yes you read that right it was a campout sleepover party!  If you had any question as to whether I was crazy or not.  Well this is clear proof that I am indeed crazy!

But seeing the excitement in Grant's eyes as him and I planned this party was totally worth being exhausted!  We borrowed a tent from Quincy and Gloria, of course we only own a very small tent that Hunter has used for scouts.  We aren't the tent camping type.

We had a weenie roast....

Along with bottled root beer!  These boys hit those pretty hard.....such partiers!

They also had a BLAST playing capture the flag with the new cool glow in the dark set I bought. They all really loved it. Must have played 10 rounds of capture the flag!!

Logan gave Grant a knife that use to be his.  I love that my boys took my advice and just re-gifted stuff for Grant.  Grant was super excited!

Grant was happy with all his gifts!

Hunter hurried and wrapped up something special for Grant....

I don't know who was happier Grant or Hunter!

Mr. Grant has a thing for Elephants.......he LOVES them!

Then Justin hid glow in the dark bugs and lizards.  The boys really enjoyed finding these.

Then it was time for s'mores!!!

Rigdon Claridge is such a cute kid!

Okay so I might have planned s'mores just because I wanted one....hahaha!  Oh how I love me some s'mores!

Then it was time to calm these kids down for the night.  Might I mention that it was about 11:00 at night.  A few of the boys had to go home for the night, but they will return in the morning for a couple more fun things.

 Grant, Rigdon and Ryker ended up having a hard time going to sleep.  So around 12:30 I went out there and stayed in the ten with them.  Finally around 3:00 I was able to come back inside the house.

The next morning we had breakfast, which consisted of none other than BIRTHDAY CAKE!!  WOOT WOOT!  

The kids were all excited about having birthday cake for breakfast!

Then we all went on a Ranger ride out in the desert.

These boys were in heaven!

We found a spot where the boys could search for cool rocks!  Crazy enough there were tons of indian arrowheads.  Each boy found 3-4 arrowheads!  They were THRILLED!!!

We had a great morning and who ever placed those arrowheads there was one smart cookie! Hehehe.....

After that I took all these cute kids home and had just enough time to get Kiersten to the places she needed to go.  And get us all to the homecoming parade.

Grant LOVES his birthday gift from Justin and I!

It was a fun birthday party!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. GRANT!

We Love You!

7 Things I LOVE About Mr. Grant

1.  His kind heart!  He is so good to everyone around him!

2.  I love the deep conversations he gets in to.

3.  His infectious smile!  This is one handsome guy right here!

4.  I love watching him admire this older brothers.  They truly are his heroes!

5.  I love watching some good Grant treats Ella!  He is a wonderful big brother to her!

6.  Love watching Grant play soccer.  He is quite the athlete.  Him and another kid on his team score most of the points!

7.  I love how many complements I get on how well behaved Grant is!  He is an amazing kid!