Yesterday, Friday the 15th, Katie and Amanda were way busy taking care of bunches of last minute stuff to make Riley's party a success. During the evening, James and I were recruited into the process with me putting up the hardware for hanging the pinata and crepe paper decorations, and James installing a local area network (LAN) for the party attendees to play Minecraft together. Obviously James had the technical expertise to put the LAN together while I, apparently, had the technical expertise to put up the other stuff. Regardless, we were busy, getting done with what we needed to get done with at 11 PM. It had been a long day for Amanda, James and myself, but even longer for Katie who did most of the work. Here's what some of the stuff and decorations looked like:
The above boxes are Steve from Minecraft. The above boys are Avery on the left, and birthday boy Riley on the right.
Oh, No! We've got to run away from the Minecraft black widow spider on the ceiling! Run, Avery, Run!
Minecraft Computer Central Control. This is the real, important stuff, remember that.
More decorations, balloons, Minecraft pinata, Minecraft black widow spider and other decorations, Old Guys Rule Grandpa with granddaughter. Don't forget that old guys do rule.
And here's the Minecraft party favors, necessary items for any successful Minecraft party. (I didn't know that!)
The birthday boy's cake was decorated well and tasted darn good. Gotta get some more tonight!
This morning, we got up around 8 AM and started into doing last minute things prior to guests arriving three hours later. And before we knew it, those guests were arriving! Added to all that excitement, snow started coming down shortly after we got up, and it was forecasted that we were to get 2" - 4" today. So it was kinda exciting while we were getting ready watching the snow come down, but we didn't watch much as there was a lot to do.
The guests started arriving right around 11, like they were supposed to. The Minecraft entertainment went over so well that when the time came for cake and ice cream, several of the guests went back down to the TV room to do the game some more. Regardless, the end result was that everyone had a great time. That means Riley, guests, Mom, Dad, Granma & Granpa also. And after all the candy, cake and ice cream were handed out, all 10 of the guests went home with a wonderful sugar high. Who could ask for anything more?
And after the guests left, it was so nice just to sit down and ...take a nap? Actually, for some folks (uh... everyone but me!), the day continued as Riley and Avery took part in a Minecraft (what else, huh?) competition in Ogden making something that can only be made in Minecraft (obviously!). I didn't feel like going so I stayed home and relaxed trying to do blog stuff. James had some stuff to do at work so he left about the same time that the Minecraft competitors left with Granma & Mom. They all just got back with the news that Riley's entry was in the top three! Pretty exciting, huh? I'm proud of him, so's everyone else here.
Ok, not gonna get to the travelogue today, it's been too busy. But I still hope you had a blessed day!
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