My Dad's 60th

Last night we combined two parties into one. We had our cousin gift exchange, but more importantly we celebrated my Dad's 60th birthday. Camille had come prepared with a fun game for everyone to play. She put random questions inside of balloons and we took turns popping the balloons to discover the question inside. The questions were things about my Dad's life such as what you had to be a wizard or a ninja, how many surgeries has he had, and where would you like to visit most their Hawaii or Lake Powell? 

If we got the answer right then nothing happened. If we got it wrong however the person whose turn it was had 3 minutes to study our family tree. Camille would ask them a question about him and if they got it right they were off the hook. If they got it wrong then they got pie-faced! The kids wanted to get the questions wrong because they really wanted to eat that whipped cream! 

After the game we went downstairs to watch a slideshow of my Dad's life. My mom pulled together some fun pictures of his childhood and some of trips they've taken. I hadn't seen about 80% of those photos. It was fun to see and hear about so many stories I didn't know. All the grandkids got a good laugh at everyone's hair and all of the pictures. 

We finished up with cake and a round of happy birthday. These kids have a pretty great grandpa. And I grew up with a pretty great dad.

Since we had everyone together, we decided to quickly open up all of the Christmas gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.  I think the marshmallow shooters were some of the biggest hits of the night.

But then again, the man crate we bought for my dad was a pretty close second!  It was duct-taped like crazy, then he had to use a crowbar to open up the wooden crate.  It was definitely a challenge and made us laugh!

He was pretty covered in sawdust once he was done.