Blake Turns 5!!!

On March 27th, our Blakey Boy had a Birthday!

 FIVE YEARS OLD!!! finally :)

**** side note... now that Blake is 5, he tells us every night when it is time for bed that he is  5 now and is big enough that he should get to stay up with the girls... we must admit, it is such a cute argument and it almost works except the fact this kid gets up at the CRACK of DAWN like 5 am almost daily... so by 7pm he is DONE!! Oh Blake we love you! ****

He had his heart set on a SPIDERMAN cake this year.  I looked all over the web for a cake that I could copy. I found one that looked like This One... When I showed Blake he was so excited! I had to hold my breath a LOT while frosting this cake... Blake was thrilled with the outcome and told me that " I WAS THE BEST CAKE MAKER EVER!!!" Wow, Thanks Buddy man! :)

We decided to go all out and do a SPIDERMAN theme for his Birthday this year. We just had a little family get together for a BBQ lunch, cake & ice cream to celebrate. Even though our party was small... I was missing 3 of my siblings and their families... they all live out of state :(  We decked out our place for our special birthday boy!

 Kaitlyn & Carly put up the streamers in the archway.. I was pretty impressed with their skills... They make a mama proud ;) Blake Loved his "Car Wash" streamers... he ran through the "Car Wash" all day long.

It that Spiderman??? 

The Decked out Birthday Table!!! Let's PARTY!!!

The GRUB... BBQ, fresh fruit, homemade potato salad ( Leonard made the whole thing... it was Good!) and the Cupcakes I made for Blake's Preschool Class!

 Our only cousin that is big enough to play with is Van... He loved this Spiderman Party. It was fun to watch the boys excitment with the spiderman masks, blower horns and everyone's part of a Birthday....

PRESENTS!!!!!

Blake had a hard time being patient to open his presents. Since his Birthday fell on a Sunday we had church bright and early. But not only one church on Sunday. My sister Celeste and Matt blessed their baby this morning  and then we went to our meetings and then FINALLY home, but we waited to open presents until after lunch which was EXCRUCIATING too long for Blake. Luckily, he survived the LONG wait and his patience paid off! 

Happy Birthday Blake!

Blake is a crack up to watch open presents. He is very animated and EVERYTHING was the best Ever!!!

 With all the birthday commotion going on, I failed to take a group shot of us! RATS!!!

Those in attendence were Celeste & Matt with their 2 boys Van & Rook, and My parents Jim & Joan. We missed all the rest of of family!

 Woo Hoo! JACKPOT!!! It was a TRIO birthday for Blake. He Loves building with Trios and has some more sets to use his imagination with! I love this happy picture of my little nephew Van. He was so cute and so helpful. He would hand Blake each presents and would try to help unwrap it and ooohed and aaahed at all the fun presents! We Love Van!

Time for the Cake and a Loud Cheery rendition my traditional family birthday song.... It is a song that has been sung at every birthday in my home growing up... We love it.. The words go like this....

It's a Very Happy Day

When your Birthday Time is here

We'll sing a special song to you

To wish you joy and cheer....

(then on to the regular Happy Birthday song!) I'll sing it sometime for you... you may want to adopt this little diddy to your family birthdays from now on.. it is very catchy and cheery too :)

Make a Wish Blakey Boy! oh how we love you and are so happy to have you in our family! You definitely are the Cherry on Top in the Zito Family!