Once Wyatt said he wanted an Angry Birds birthday party, the ideas started flowing. I had my own thoughts and ideas, and I found inspiration from the internet. Angry Birds seems to be everywhere, except not in the party supply department. So, we had to come up with some things on our own; but, since when has that ever been an issue for us? We got started yesterday as soon as we got back from soccer with the balloons. I found a printable template to make the Angry Birds from balloons over on this website. And really, it's all the decorating we needed to do! We had a great assembly line...cut, spray with adhesive, stick to balloons, tie string, and hang. It was really nice to have the extra hands of my parents and Monica and Michael here to help, and to be at the party! We loved having them here! We hung them upside down from the ceiling at different levels. It couldn't have looked more awesome, in my opinion! Since the theme was based on an actual game, I figured it would be really cool to make a life-sized Angry Birds game. I couldn't find anything to go off of from the internet, so it was kind of up to me how I wanted to do it. I thought so hard about how I wanted to do it, and finally came up with it. Eric would make a slingshot (however he wanted to), we would spray paint boxes to be the stone/wood/glass that the Angry Birds shoot into, balloons for the green pigs, and (my genius idea) to paint kickballs as the Angry Birds! Which, we would give away as the party favor! (Another genius idea by me.) So, that's what I did. I used acrylic craft paint to paint the yellow and red Angry birds. And it really didn't take too long! Only a couple of hours, total, to do them all. I was really, really happy with how they turned out. After everything was in place and cleaned up, it was time to celebrate our little man! I used photoshop to create a Wyatt Angry Birds invitation. And then had it printed to use as decoration. His little face on the red Angry Bird cracks me up. Wyatt makes the best faces! Michael and Eric set up the Angry Birds game out in the back yard. They corralled all of the children onto the deck while they set it up and "tested" it out. After the men played for a bit, I got in there and set up the boxes and threw in the pig balloons. Eric tried so hard to come up with ways on how to get the balloons to pop or explode upon the Angry Bird ball hitting them, but couldn't come up with something that was cost-effective. But it was OK, because the pigs didn't last long; they got blown away or snatched by children who wanted to play with them. In the game, the slingshot and the pile-ons (?) are positioned and lined up like this. But it gave it a narrow target. So we ended up turning the pile-ons the other way, so that we could actually hit them and knock stuff down. Oh yeah, we also got a bounce house, which all of the kids loved, of course. (It's a great way to wear them out, too!) Wyatt taking a turn launching an Angry Bird. Jackson loved, loved, loved stacking the boxes. He got so into it! It doesn't surprise me, though, because of how much he loves the game. I loved watching him build the pile-ons. He was so proud of them and had so much fun doing it! The kids loved the slingshot. And I loved how they lined up and took turns with it! And it was just as much fun for everyone to make the pile-ons. As someone at the party said, it was such a great "boy" thing to have at the party. I couldn't agree more! Singing to Wyatt. Wyatt had a blast. We all had a blast. Wyatt got a bunch of cool toys, too. I don't think there was a happier boy around. The boy is so loved. So loved by all. He just has something that draws people to him. And I don't think it's the red hair. He's such a sweet, tender, loving boy and it shows! We are so happy to have him in our lives!