Soccer Party

If anyone knows me, they know I start planning my kids' birthday parties as early as possible.  Last spring I thought I had talked Zane into having a Lego party for this 5th Birthday...he seemed fine with it.  Then at the beginning of the summer, he asked me if for his 6th birthday he could have a soccer party.  That is when it hit me...I was taking away all of his fun in picking his own birthday theme by me "talking him into" a theme I thought would be fun.  I asked him if he would rather have a soccer party for his 5th birthday instead and he got all excited and of course said yes!  So out the window went Legos and in flew Soccer!

Yesterday was the big day for his Soccer Party and I'm pretty sure he had a blast!  We had a great turn out of friends from all over (school, family friends, diabetes camps etc).

Thanks to my friend Joe - we designed some pretty cool "tickets" for the party invitations!

The party was at a brand new indoor soccer facility in Tacoma - we had never even been there before I booked it, but I figured since it was new it was probably pretty good - I was right!  Since the party wasn't at our house or even near our house I wanted to try and make the food easy, yet still make it soccer themed if I could.  The WONDERFUL cake was done by my friend from work Katrina - she did a fabulous job and I'm not sure I could ever properly thank her.  Not only did Katrina come through with the cake - but she came through with putting her two kids up to entertaining the party kids the entire party!  Both are soccer players themselves and they did a great job getting the kids organized - it was still some mass chaos from time to time, but the kids had a blast and really played their hearts out!

And because like I've said on here before Diabetes doesn't give a crap where you are or what you are doing or that you are at your own birthday party and only have the field for an hour to play - it will throw a low blood sugar of 37 at you just because it can...

I felt so bad for Zane at this moment.  I really try to not feel sorry for him, but seriously...his own birthday party and he had to sit out 20+ mins of it so his blood sugar could come up enough to safely let him back out on the field.  Thankfully after 2 juice boxes AND a package of fruit snacks, he was ready to kick-it and never looked back!

 
Now onto cake and presents - every birthday child's favorite part I think!!

Huge thank you to Sierra and Brad for putting these kids to work out on the field, they had a blast and I'm pretty sure the party wouldn't have been as fun if Josh and I were in charge of that!

Now to start planning next year's!  Just kidding...sort of!