Chuck E. Cheese

We were in Arizona the weekend of Anna's birthday, so we missed her birthday party. I told her we would let her pick somewhere and we would take her and have our own birthday party with her. She chose Chuck E. Cheese and Jana decided to bring her kids and come with us. We went to lunch at Chick O'lay (Chick Fillet) and then went acros the street to every kid's dream and every mother's nightmare. We actually had a good time and although my kids complained a bit about going to a "little kid" place, they had more fun and went through way more tokens than the little kids.

The best part of the whole outing was when we were walking into Chuck E. Cheese. I was holding the door for the kids and Jana was coming in behind us. Ella and Anna walked in and Owen was right behind them. Before Jana or I were actually in the door Owen started screaming and crying and turned and ran for the parking lot yelling "I don't want to go in there!" When I actually got in the door there stood Chuck E. Cheese (Anna had run in and started hugging him while Owen was running out the door). It was so funny. I have some pictures of him crying but they are on my camer'a internal memory and my USB cable got stepped on and so I can't plug it in. As soon as I get another cable I will post the pictures of Owen crying. It took Jana about 5 minutes to convince him it was okay to go in, but he was a bit nervous the whole time. So, here are some of the pictures of our fun birthday party! (And, we missed all of our other cousins who weren't there!)

This was the valuable prize Anna got with her tickets - along with a couple of rings and a sucker.
Owen finally recovered from the Chuck E. Cheese sighting and actually played some games.

Ella dancing as she was riding the merry-go-round.

Mason will always be a "little kid" at heart!

Syd is counting her tickets.

The whole group after picking out their prizes.