This year when I was talking about birthday plans with my oldest, we gave him the option of having a party or going skiing. He picked skiing, which is fantastic. We were more than happy to try something new with the kids and especially because he wanted to do it so badly. Unfortunately, he got sick as soon as we got there, and missed going skiing.
I also know that this time in our lives is fleeting. Birthdays are a reminder that our kids (and all of us) are getting older by the second, and I just couldn’t skip the party. I can see that there is a limited number of birthday parties left before the kids are too cool to have their parents involved in birthday celebrations so while I can I am going to celebrate.
Surprisingly we managed to keep the event a secret until the morning of the party. I think that it actually worked quite well. As the parents of the birthday boy we weren?t asked how many more sleeps, minutes or seconds until the party. Most of the guests were not aware that they were coming to the party until the night before or the day of the party either, so it was a win-win for all of the adults involved. The theme was Minecraft. I knew nothing about Minecraft but thanks to Pinterest I learned everything I needed to know to throw a Minecraft party. We made a portal, creeper and ghost balloons, TNT decorations, balloon spiders, a creeper shirt for the birthday boy, a TNT pinata and a diamond sword cake.

We started the party off with Minecraft activities th...