Camden had his first friend birthday party ever this year. He surprised me with his request to have it be a dinosaur-themed party. I had fun with the decorations and food, especially the watermelon.
He invited 12 kids and most of them ended up coming. It made for a crazy couple of hours.
I went the easy route with his cake and just stuck some of his toys on top. I was supposed to put "Jurassic Park" on it, but I forgot to include it (since I was scrambling to finish the cake before the guests arrived). With his birthday falling on a Sunday this year, he actually got a bit of a birthday weekend, with the party on Friday, a family party with cousins on Sunday, and his class celebrating it on Monday.
Tyler also got an extended birthday celebration this year. We had chosen to start our annual Lagoon camping trip on his birthday this year. So we let him open his presents and chose a restaurant for dinner the day before his birthday. He chose to go to Texas Roadhouse because he wanted to sit up on the saddle. I knew we would all be stuffed, so I asked him if we could do his cake later in the week after we returned from Lagoon and he was fine with that. He did get to enjoy some ice cream after dinner and the saddle.
Earlier that day, we also went to the Provo Rec Center pool. I let Tyler invite his best friend from school and we had a fun afternoon. The weather was a bit cool that day, so it wasn't very crowded.
Then on his birthday we headed out for 2 days at Lagoon. Alyssa opted to stay home again this year. It was probably a good idea since she was having back pain at the time, as well as a broken little toe.
The first day at Lagoon was amazing. The lines were the shortest we had ever seen them, and the weather was perfect. We rode all of our favorites multiple times and had a lot of fun. The second day in the park turned out to be the most crowded we had ever seen Lagoon. It was one of those middle school graduation days in the park and it was awful. To make matters worse, the middle school kids were cutting in line all day, so the already long lines were taking 3 times as long as they should have. We were so fed up with it by noon, so we headed into the waterpark. The slide lines were short, so we took advantage of that at first. But less than an hour after opening, they closed down 2 of the slides and the main swimming pool...FOR OVER AN HOUR! So back out into the regular park we went. The lines were still annoyingly long, and we watched groups of 10, 20, and 30 teenagers walk up to people in front of us and join them in line. We decided it was time to go back to our trailer to eat and take a break. We were hoping they would all leave at 4 or 5 and that lines would be more reasonable. A lot of them did leave, but the lines never really got better. Needless to say, it was not our favorite day at Lagoon. We were fortunate to, at least, have had the previous day with super short lines. In years to come, we will make sure to never visit the park on a school day again. Not even sure why they open the park to the public on those days.
After we returned from Lagoon, we made Tyler his requested birthday cake. Well actually they were a cross between cupcakes and a cake. He wanted a snow cone cake and Alyssa found a video that showed us how to do it. They were kind of sad looking, but he was happy with them. And if we did not look too closely, they almost looked like real snow cones.
We ended up splitting them in half and sharing 1 mini cake between 2 of us.
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