To Infinity and Beyond......

Well, it happened, Chase turned three!!! I cannot believe it. We decided to celebrate his birthday on Saturday rather than today because of Matt's crazy work schedule this weekend. He was so funny yesterday, we have been doing the countdown till his party and so yesterday we were telling him Happy Birthday and he would say NO, not until my party. He was convinced he was not 3 until there was a party. So his whole birthday theme was revolved around the movie Toy Story which he LOVES!! He has been telling everyone he is having a Buzz Lightyear birthday party. So for those of you who have seen it you will get alot of the things I created for the party. If you have not seen it, watch it, it is an awesome movie!! So we started the party playing games, I made my own games the first was pinning the parts on Mr. Potato Head (you know like Mr. Potato and his bucket of parts). This is what he was suppose to look like. He was holding up "3" fingers.

He tried to cheat, but couldn't ha ha...Not bad! He got almost all of his parts in the right spot. Chase had the eyes and the mouth, Kyle the nose, and Kelsey an arm. Sadi even got to play later, She loved it, it was called break Mr. Potato Head, her favorite game!

The next game was Buzz Bingo, I had made bingo cards for all of the kids and then had stickers and stars they could decorate their board any way they wanted to, this is Chase's. Chase ended up being the big winner, I think he won 3 games. It was cute, I made them yell "To infinity and beyond" when they won. I had bought a whole bunch of Toy Story prizes online. There were Buzz and Woody parachute'rs and army men that shoot suckers.
The third and final game was really fun, I told them that the night before Aliens had came and left moon rocks out in our backyard and I had sent out the troops (Little green army men) to guard them until they were found. So they each got a bag decorated with their name to collect them. It was a fun game for all the kids. I had wrapped Starburst and little boxes of Jr. Mints in tinfoil to resemble the moon rocks and put the little army men on top like they were guarding them.

After games it was time to open presents!! He wasted no time to rip them open.We bought him Toy Story 2 which he has never seen. It was funny he opened it and said hey it's my guy movie (that's what he calls his Woody is his guy).I had purposefully not put his Buzz (which he has been hoping and hoping to get) out with the other gifts to open and he looked around when he was done, and Matt said is that all, I thought there were more? And I said nope that's it, I waited a few seconds and then said oh wait I think Mommy left one in the closet (just like in the movie when Andy's mom pulls the surprise gift out of the closet). I think he knew what it was going to be when I said that. He was soo excited, he finally got his Buzz. While the kids were busy playing with the new toys, I sent Daddy to Pizza Planet (again from the movie) to pick up pizza. I had made my own pizza planet covers that I had Matt stick to the boxes so Chase thought he really went to Pizza Planet.And of course what do you need to go with your pizza? Alien Juice!! I made some aliens and relabeled a Mt. Dew bottle. Chase thought it was great!! After dinner and more playing it was cake time! Chase picked out what kind of cake he wanted and I had found some cute figures to put on top.

I asked him what he was going to wish for, he said a white cake with white frosting!! I said wow, I bet that wish comes true!

After cake, it was time to go to the "galaxy" to watch a movie...Toy Story 2!! I had put glow in the dark stars up on the wall which were glowing by then. So, Chase got his new Buzz PJ's on and sat with his Buzz for the whole show. He loved the movie, as soon as it started he said I have a Buzz Lightyear too! He did not want to stop playing, I told him he could sleep with His Buzz, and he was then excited to go to bed, I don't know what time it was when I finally stopped hearing Buzz's laser go off and "To infinity and beyond". It made my heart melt as he was walking down the hall squeezing his Buzz saying "I love my Buzz Mommy, thank you for giving him to me". A priceless moment I hope I never forget!

Happy Birthday My darling Boy!