AJ's Birthday and Halloween

There wasn't any school for the boys on Friday so I told AJ he could decide what he wanted to do for the day, it was his day to plan.  He was very excited about that!  We only do big birthday parties every other year, so this was the year to hang with family for birthdays.

 

So I decided it would be fun this year to put streamers and balloons covering his door.  It was all a great idea until I heard a slamming door at 2:25 am and went to investigate.  He had to use the restroom but didn't come out because he wasn't sure what was going on.  So he asked me to put them back up and because I am who I am at 2:40 am I was putting balloons back up in his door.  He did tell me he liked them, so that made me feel good!!

 

AJ decided the first thing he wanted to do was go bowling.  So I asked a friend of his to see if they wanted to join us.

 

Concentration trying to keep the ball in the center of the lane!

 

Luckily for me his friend also had a little brother that is Michael's age, so it worked out really well.  AJ was able to eat lunch at Subway, one of his favorite restaurants!

 

After that we headed to the dreaded Ramstein.  The only reason I say dreaded is because EVERYBODY goes there to go trick-or-treating, but a friend of mine asked if we would help her with the trunk or treat and I don't know how to say no.  They wanted me to dress up so I grabbed what I had, Cleopatra, AJ was the grim reaper and Michael was a ninja.

 

This was one of the houses that was decorated - I thought it was a really cool idea!!!

 

The crew getting ready to trunk-or-treat!

 

The crew in front of Sarah's trunk - she really outdid herself yet again!

 

Sarah and I - aren't we cute?

 

Sarah told Michael to go get the white ninja across the field, so what did he do?  He started running for the white ninja.  It was kind of funny to watch because the older white ninja had no idea what was going on.  :-)

 

AJ on the other hand helped Wes put up some more decorations.

 

Then it was time - I couldn't believe the amount of people there.  It started at 5 pm and there were people lined up by 4:30 waiting for it to open up.  It was CRAZY!!!!!  So we started heading down the row of trunks.

 

I thought this was cool - a motorcycle club came and did trunk-or-treat!  Here is Batman giving Ari and Michael some candy.

 

It was a gorgeous day with a beautiful sunset as we headed out to go to some of the houses on Ramstein.

 

This house was AWESOME!!!  They did it all up in Wizard of Oz.  They had a rainbow, all the characters, and had the movie playing on their garage.  It was truly a neat one!

 

AJ didn't go with us to the houses because he wanted to stay and help hand out candy.  I thought that was really cool of him!  He was really enjoying it.  I couldn't believe the amount of people, the line of children didn't stop for two solid hours.  They say more than 5,000 kids come to trunk-or-treat and that is only trunk-or-treat that doesn't include those that just go to the houses.  CRAZY!

 

After that wild time we headed back to a friend's house on Ramstein and had something to eat.  I also baked AJ a cake and we were able to sing him happy birthday and he blew out the candles. 

 

AJ and Daddy later at night just chilling together!!!  AJ said he had a wonderful birthday and that is what I wanted to hear!!!  I was very happy everything went well!!

 

We didn't have time to open presents on his birthday so we opened them the next day.  He is concentrating so hard so he doesn't rip the paper.

 

He was very excited to get the Lego set he wanted!!

 

 

AJ is such a good big brother, Michael was excited about it too so they just were checking out all the cool figures that they get.  Another successful birthday down!!!