with water balloons...
and water guns...
a water hose...
even buckets of water...
pizza (and a food fight)...
a raw egg fight (the highlight of the party!)...
a pile up...
tug of war and some muddy football...
and chaperones...
Mrs Heather, Mrs Hazel and Mr Randall were the brave souls that stuck around as witnesses. lol
4 best friends...
and one very dirty and happy Lex!
I'm sure you are wondering what in the world would cause me to plan such a messy party? Well, it is something pretty special: Lex was accepted into Mensa. The day he received his acceptance letter I took him to Dairy Queen for ice cream. Yay! While waiting in the drive thru Lex says to me "Don't you think that getting into Mensa is worth more than an ice cream?" hmmm... you are smart... So I asked what he thought it was worth. He wanted to have a big party at home with all his friends like we did for their 10th birthday. I immediately had flash backs of 50 kids running around in our front yard throwing water balloons and raw eggs at each other and the weeks it took me to clean it all up and I cringed. Then I offered a weekend in St Louis and The City Museum, or rock climbing, or laser tag, or Six Flags, or anything that wouldn't require much clean up. But he was insistent on wanting a home party. So I gave it a few weeks...but he didn't budge. So I compromised and held the party at the park with just his close friends.
The rest is just the tons of pics of our day.
It was incredibly hot out so they spent most of the time in some sort of a water fight.
This is one of my fav pics; Lex is holding 2 water balloons in each hand and you can see a balloon about to hit him in the belly.
That balloon came from Jacob, so Lex chased him down with his water balloons, who fought back with a water hose...
We spent more than an hour making all those water balloons, which lasted all of about 5 minutes. But so worth every one of those minutes to watch how much FuN those kids were having.
Alittle down time to eat, but even that led to a food fight.
And then...the ultimate...the RAW EGG fight!
Lex loads both hands and heads out for the hunt. hehehe
Adre stashes his eggs...
I made them all bring eye protection...
The war zone...
Adre was sneaky with one last egg to Lex's head...
He actually picked up the yoke...
and chased Adre down.
These are my fav pics. The 4 of them just hanging out.
This one cracks me up, Jax is on the bottom of a pile up, just enjoying a popsicle
Time for clean-up...
you guessed it, even that led to yet another water fight.
Boys will be boys...
