Kyle's 10th Birthday - Minecraft Style!!!

Kyle's actual birthday is March 26th, but due to scheduling issues with Spring Break, school events, etc., he wasn't able to have his party until April 21st! Seriously, I didn't think he would make it. He was that dismayed to have his birthday party scheduled so far off!!!  Even though it didn't seem like it to him, his birthday party was here before we knew it!

Since he totally loves Minecraft, he decided to go with a Minecraft theme for his birthday.  I found a really neat, inexpensive Minecraft digital scrapbooking set on Etsy that had 17 patterns as well as some boxes that you could make.  I figured that I could definitely use that, so I ordered it.  I started with his invitations, so that our friends and family would know that we weren't forgetting Kyle's birthday party but it just had to be pushed back a little.



I found a lot of neat Minecraft birthday ideas online, so I picked the ones that I thought were the neatest, most inexpensive and easy to make projects for us to do.  Delaney was a great help, and she made a lot of these projects.



We started with Minecraft snacks.  We had TNT (cherry-flavored licorice), CREEPER (Andes mints), GOLD (caramel kisses), DIAMONDS (cookies n' cream kisses), and COAL (dark chocolate covered cashews) snacks. We also printed out several of the boxes from the digital kit, I cut a bunch of them out, and then Delaney put them all together for us.











Delaney also made all the kids their own set of Minecraft tools (out of perler beads).  She made everyone a shovel, sword, axe and pick-axe.  She had to make six complete sets, and as she was making them all -- Kyle had a special request to have a diamond sword.  :-)  So he ended up having his very own 'birthday tools' set.





They turned out really cute; she did a great job.  We weren't even sure that some of the older kids would really want their own set, but we figured better safe than sorry.  :-)

Next, we worked on some Steve and Creeper masks.  Again, we made enough so that each kid had their own mask.  We used paper bags for the base, and I raided my scrapbooking cardstock for all the squares.  I cut all the squares, while Delaney glued them all down.



I also made Kyle a birthday banner, that Delaney again got to help put together.  I think she was definitely Minecrafted out by the end of all our preparations for the party.  :-)



Kenny got to help make some spider decorations in the room.  I can't believe that I let them put 'spiders' up as decorations.  :-)



And once again, Aunt Danah made an awesome birthday cake.  (She said she had waaaaaay too many jelly beans left over.)



It was finally time for the party!  Yeah!   The kids were all great sports and donned the Minecraft masks for a picture.  :-)  The boys were all Steve, while the two girls went for the Creeper masks.  Don't they look great?  I just LOVE this picture.



And here are all the kids unmasked, somehow I never got a really good picture of all of them.  They were apparently having too much fun messing around with their minecraft tools.  Starting in the back, left to right, we have Delaney, Connor and Parker; then in the front we have Michael, Kyle and Teresa.



It's hard to believe that our 'baby' is 10 years old!!!  Both our kids are in double digits now.  (* gasp *)



Then it was time for gifts.  :-)  Kyle was psyched, and he did a great job reading out everyone's cards and announcing the gifts.  He got more awesome Minecraft and Star Wars shirts, more clothes for school, video games and two more X-Box controllers as well as gift cards and some cash.  He's a very lucky little boy, to have such good family and friends celebrate his birthday with him!!!





Afterwards the kids wasted no time in getting the other two controllers hooked up, so that four of them could play at the same time.  Good times!!!

We love you, Kyle!

~ Ken, Dani & Dee