"Guess What!?! I'm FIVE!!"

Saturday morning, we heard a big thud from upstairs and then heard running as Caleb woke up and shouted from the top of the stairs, "Guess What?! I'm FIVE!!".  He was so excited and this seemed to mark a triumphant birthday.  I love planning his birthday parties and we have so much fun celebrating!  His birth is certainly a day of celebration and miracles in our family.  We feel so blessed to have him in our lives.  This year we invited 4 families to come party and Caleb wanted a Cars 2 Spy Birthday Party complete with a Mater Birthday Cake!  I only had a couple days to pull everything together, since we had just gotten home from our trip to South Dakota but I think it turned out well.

The Big Birthday Boy!

To begin we did a bit of spy training.  They made disguises for their spy person and then got fingerprinted to see if they could be spies.

We played some games where the kids got passports and visited Antartica and went "Musical Iceberg Hopping" and then to France to play Pictionary.  To become official spys, Mater had left spy clues in our house, and they searched for clues to find their official spy kits.  They kits were super cheap to put together but seemed to be a big hit! 

The Big Birthday Wish!!  We were informed later that his birthday wish had come true!

Of course presents are always so much fun to get and Caleb was very spoiled by all his great friends and family.

THE MATER CAKE



Overall I think the cake turned out pretty cute and was fun to make.  Caleb loved it!!!  And well that is the whole point of making it anyways.  It is a lot of fun to make his birthday so special and turning 5 turned out pretty great!