Tanner's 9th Birthday- A Transformer Party

We started off Tanner's birthday with breakfast burritos, his breakfast item of choice.
Then we went to his school for lunch and brought him his favorite Chinese food from Panda Express. He was so excited. Look that this cute freckle face boy with his food. 

I just love him!

Bailey's lunch is right before Tanner's lunch, so she hung out with us while we waited for Tanner and then she skipped recess to eat with us. We all love our Tanner bear so very much!
He loved having us all with him for his birthday lunch. 

Then after school we invited a bunch of his friends to the pool to swim, play and party with us. 

This year Tanner wanted a Transformer themed birthday. He loved how it all came together and he really loved his ice cream cake. 

He got home to find his party all set up and he just loved it all. 

We served "energon crystals" and "transformer fuel"

along with "autobot cookies"

and "energon cubes".

We also served "wires".

Here's Tanner's autobot cake that he loved so much!

Look at this sweet boy. He was so pleased with his birthday party. 

I love this sweet boy. 

He had a great time playing and swimming with his friends at the pool!

We ate and then opened presents. Tanner was so thrilled that his friends brought presents for him.
We had told everyone they didn't need to bring presents, just to come hang out and swim. But they all surprised him anyway. 

We are so grateful for Tanner's sweet friends!

Directly after the party, the took off for Mountain Home. It was a crazy full day, but we wanted to celebrate with Nanny and Papa as well as the cousins so we all met in Mountain Home to party some more. We had a fun party with another cake and presents and lots of playing.
This boy- he just melts my heart!

Tanner got lots of fun toys for his birthday, but the biggest hit were the bubble bumpers.
We all had fun playing with these. We let Tanner pick his opponent first and he picked Clark. They were so funny battling each other. 

We were all laughing so hard!

Then Bailey battled Danny

and Max. She was too big to battle Max but he wanted to so we let them.  

Then we let Tanner battle against Bailey for a bit.

Then we passed Tanner off to the queen of body bubble bumpers- AUNT SARAH!

We were laughing so hard during this battle. It was hilarious. 

Tuck enjoyed battling Clark and Max. 

Max and Tuck were pretty evenly matched and they were so cute to watch.  

Then Tanner battled Daddy. The bubble bumper was way too small for Daddy but he squeezed himself into it. 

I battled Aunt Sarah too

And we ended the battles with Nanny VS Papa.
The grand kids loved this and we were all laughing. 

The next day we went to church together and then headed home. It was definitely a quick trip but it was exactly how Tanner wanted to spend his birthday and it was super fun.
Happy birthday to our sweet Tanner. I can't believe he entered our world 9 years ago!