Kai's 4th Birthday!!!!

Kai turned 4 years old on October 12th! When we woke up that morning, there was 4 inches of snow on the ground! It was pretty cool.

Since it was Sunday and there was snow, we stayed inside and and just relaxed. Ben came over because Melissa and Braden were visiting AZ. We watched TV, played Mario Kart Wii and made cookies!

As you can see Koa was eating more than he was helping, but it was still cute! We were making peanut butter cookies with m&ms on them. It's a good thing I bought a big bag of m&ms because we all were eating them on the side as well (myself included)!

The next morning, Kai celebrated his birthday with his preschool class. Miss Mary had me bring pictures of Kai to show the classmates and a snack. I brought fruit rollups and a birthday face cake from Sam's club. Here are some pics:

We decided to have his birthday party that evening at Chuck E Cheese's for a couple of reasons. #1: We had just left him for a week to go on our trip. #2: A new Chuck E Cheese's had just opened in Layton. #3: We knew Kai would LOVE it!

Before we left on our trip to Mexico we asked Kai who he wanted to invite to his party. It was really cute. He actually did give us names of who he wanted there!

We booked a birthday party with C.E.C. for the 13th because it was a monday night and we thought it wouldn't be busy. Boy were we wrong! Apparently C.E.C. is busy all the time because it was so new! In fact after I came back from Mexico, I looked into maybe moving his party date and found that CEC was booked for 2 whole months without any openings at all except for on Sundays!

So back to the party. The Hogge's came, the Dee's came, the Sillito's came, and Aaron, Ben, Melissa, Tarra, Paige, Huner, Dave, & Courtney. It was a zoo! But soooo much fun! We had a whole reserved table, a dedicated server and tokens for everyone to play with. We had pizza, sandwiches, and cake! In fact, CEC himself came out to sing happy birthday to Kai. It turns out Kai is a little afraid of huge costumes. He was pretty scared of Chuck. And to make matters worse, their own special birthday song they sing is like 5 minutes long! It was almost torture for Kai! Although I didn't take a whole lot of pictures, here is what I've got: