Josiah’s Mario Kart Birthday (6)!

We celebrated Josiah’s Birthday this past weekend with a rockin’ Mario Kart Birthday.  He had been anticipating it for a long time–recently talking about it NON. STOP. so I was glad the day finally arrived.

Tim was up and out the door bright and early to pick up Chloe from camp, so Josiah and I (with the er… “help”… of Maddie and Levi) spent the morning getting ready and eagerly awaiting 3:00 to arrive.  As usual I had done quite a bit of Pinteresting and was eager to see how everything actually turned out and looked all completed.  And I can say, I wasn’t disappointed.  I was even able to redeem myself from my Honey Comb Cake Catastrophe from last year.  😉

First the pictures of the food (because that’s my favorite part)!

Oh, and did you notice his AWESOME Mario (M) shirt?  I’m very proud of that too.  I made it from an old red shirt he owned and a bleach pen.  I did learn that the bleach does bleed… a lot.  So, I actually had to fill in most of the M with a red sharpie after I bleached it, but it turned out fine for the party.  I’m not sure the red will last once I wash it, but that’s ok.  He was still thrilled to be able to wear it on for his party.

Now onto the decorations!  I want to give a shout out to Auntie Jen for printing and coloring all the mario kart people on the banner.  🙂  I also made a few other checkerboard flag banners that I didn’t take pictures of, and since this post is already very picture heavy I figure you can just visualize that in your head.

We even colored Rainbow Road up to the front door.  Josiah thought that was really awesome.  I thought it was a good idea until I was on my hands and knees dripping in sweat hoping I didn’t scrape my knuckles painfully on the cement….

The boys enjoyed playing pin the mustache on Mario and donning their own goofy mustaches.  (As a side note: when buying mustaches for a party, do make sure the package says adhesive or sticky in the title.  Apparently I bought just mustaches.  No sticky backs included.  I didn’t even know they made such a thing.  So…. I pulled out the good ol’ double sided tape.  Ha!)

Tim also drew a course for the boys to race around (while getting wet since it was almost 100*) and they took turns running it and being timed.  It was fun, although a couple kids got hurt… ah, the joys of boys and racing.  But no one was seriously injured, so I call that a win.  😉

And last but not least, they did enjoy actually playing Mario Kart.

The party was a smashing success.  I was a little apprehensive that the party would not quite live up to Josiah’s dreams since he had been looking forward to it for so long, but according to him, “it was even better than I had imagined it would be.”  So much so, in fact…. that he cried himself to sleep that night lamenting the fact that it was over.   Ah, the joys of being 6 and overtired and exhausted.