As I mentioned, Jimmy's birthday was a BUSY day but we (somehow) managed to fit everything in. With his birthday breakfast and family presents taken care of, James changed for basketball and Steve took him to his practice and game. (At this age, the events are less competitive and it is basically 1.5 hours of lightly-organized chaos with two teams running back and forth on the court attempting baskets while the Varsity Boys Basketball players volunteer each week to be refs. They are learning how to handle the ball, possibly run a few "drills" and begin working as a team).
Meanwhile, I stayed at home that day to prep for his birthday party with friends. Jimmy settled on a basketball theme (how appropriate because a lot of our days lately center around practice and games for 3 out of the 4 kids) and invited a handful of friends to celebrate with him.
I chuckled because after he changed from basketball practice, he came upstairs wearing a football sweatshirt for his basketball birthday party. The boy loves his sports ...
I made his basketball cake and his whole face lit up when he came back home and saw it ... I even added a sparkler candle for him!
Rather than set up in the family room (like I tend to do for most parties at our house), I used the dining room. It was risky because it would mean a bunch of 7-year-old boys potentially spilling on the carpeting with their pizza, drinks, cake and ice cream, but miraculously, no one had an accident!
The party bag on the left was used to collect candy from the pinata later and those are gumballs shaped to look like basketballs. Spoiler alert: they looked cool, but the kids later told me that the gumballs weren't that great.
I planned to play some basketball bingo with the kids but they were having so much fun running around that they chose to forego it.
A basketball pinata (Jimmy's request) set up in the heated garage:
Happy 7th Birthday to the boy that completed our family!
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