Sendusout

A couple of weeks ago on one of our trips to the supermarket, Isaiah and I had a discussion of possible party themes for his upcoming birthday. I suggested the usual…pirates, jungle safari, space adventure; and then Isaiah informed me that none of those would do, he wanted a desert party, with cactus. Hmmm…I am always up for a creative challenge and decided to go with it and my Google searches began. As I was looking online, it seemed that Cactus and Cowboys seemed to go hand in hand, so we added it to the theme and invited all the little outlaws from Isaiah’s Kindergarten class.

I had 13 on the guest list, but fortunately for me, only 6 showed up: Jan, Lucas, Clay, Sam, Ethan, and Alex. As the children arrived we tied bandanas around their necks and gobbled down snacks while sipping root beer and “cactus juice”. We then shot down cans with balls and tried to shoot down bottles with squirt guns, but that didn’t work. We had a snake stomp with long balloons and then had to jump over a snake in the form of a long wiggly rope. We hunted for gold in the backyard and then threw in a little education and played desert animal bingo, which Daniel did a great job creating. We ate cactus cake and opened presents. And we did all of this to the gunfighter ballads of Marty Robbins. Isaiah and his friends had lots of fun and by nightfall I was ready to crash.