Friday Night Party! all of the Nettesheim Utah Cousins were able to make it to the party, so 17 of them plus our 4. It was a lot of kids and they had fun as always.

The one eye Minion

I let the kids choose what kind of cake they want every year and then I do my best to make it for them. Benji decided on a Despicable Me Minion so I went for it. I didn’t have frosting and wanted to get it started so I made my own frosting which I have done just not in a long time and I have a few good recipes for frosting but I was being lazy and grabbed the first “frosting” recipe I came to on Google search and then my 1 bag of powdered sugar didn’t go very far and… long story short – the frosting is runny which made detail hard BUT it looks like a Minion so I’m calling it a success! Maybe I should have made a special blog post just for the cake story 🙂 We had a treasure hunt – it was a picture hunt of randome places/things throughout our house and yard and the kids had to find the spot and find the next picture there until they came to the treasure = Punching Balloons, Tatoos, and PushUp Popscicles. Needless to say the hour post treasure finding was a bit chaotic with 20 ballons being pounded.

Getting the Rules for the Hunt

Ben had all the kids doing somersaults for something??

Next we opened presents, had cake and ice cream and it’s tradition to watch a movie at cousins night so we ended the night with a showing of Garfield? and Benji watched it again the next morning so it was a hit.

I love that you can't even see Benji open the gift cause Everyone wants to see.

Blowing out the candles! with Julia, her bday is on the 4th! She was supposed to be older but Benji decided to be born 3 weeks early.

Find a spot for the movie!

proof that the projector does work in case the flash on my camera was throwing you off in that last picture.

The party was fun. Ben’s old Purdue roommate – Bob – stopped in to say hi for part of the night so that was even more fun. Ben and I have been parents for 6 years now, kind of cool 🙂 We love it. One more picture of the little girly’s at the party…

The Girls - Eating their Cheese. They all decided they were hungry at 9:30 and they wanted cheese.