Nielsen Boys Birthday Bash

Family and friends came to celebrate the birthdays of Dominick (9), Clifford (7), Damien (7), Kristjan (6), and Donavan (2). Combining these as one huge family party was a success! I made up some delicious side items and decorated the cakes. For whatever reason, I accidentally bought Damien a number "6" candle instead of "7", so that's why you'll see a mismatched candle in the pics (hahaha). Daniel and Pete bbq'd burgers and hotdogs. Kids ran around and played while adults mingled. The party started to wind down early, so we cleaned and packed up. Daniel and his gang came over to our house to spend the night. We decided not to have boys' open up their gifts at the party. We felt it would be to chaotic to have 5 boys open gifts at the same time. So later that night we lined the boys up and let them open up their gifts while Jessica and I wrote down gifts given for 'thank you' cards. Clifford and Kristjan mainly received money as gifts, which was fine by them. All of us spent the rest of the weekend doing absolutely nothing, which was my personal plan :)