Simple, but they all had a ball

Cody wanted a "sports" party for his 6th birthday celebration, and I was all for it.  One, I was pretty sure I could come up with some "games" and two, they had the supplies for it at the dollar store.  Score!

I let him invite 8 friends (since that's how many invitations were in the package) and we ended up with 6 little boys + his bros, which was perfect. 
As they arrived, they got to make their sports visors . . .

Then we headed outside to shoot some hoops.  Luckily we had awesome almost summer-like weather...

They also got to try their hand (or foot rather) at soccer.  

Dribbling and making goals . . .

 

And practicing their "no hands" moves . . .

We also had some baseball planned, but since one of the boys had to leave early we decided to go ahead and get on to the real party stuff - presents and cake!  For the presents, I had the boys sit in a circle and pass around a ball while music played, if it stopped on them, they got to give him their present.

Cody was so sweet to all of his friends and so happy about each one of his gifts.  And I love to see how happy little boys are to GIVE gifts.

And then it was onto the "cake" . . . or cake pops.  Love these things!  They are fun, easier to make than they look, the kids love them and best of all, not messy! And did I mention dangerously yummy?

But since we couldn't stick candles in those, we had to improvise . . .

and the ice cream cups work great!

(PS I always use these at kids parties, so quick, easy and small portioned for little tummies)

As with all parties, it went by fast and the kids had a blast. 

And I don't remember this when I was six, but Cody actually had multiple birthday celebrations (and I haven't decided whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that I didn't take pictures).  So this party was on Saturday.  On Sunday, we had a family party at Grandma & Grandpa's with Chinese food per Cody's request.  And then on Monday, his actual birth day, he got to take treats to school AND we got to go to the fire station for dinner and brownie sundaes.  And if he wasn't spoiled enough, we even got to go for a ride in the fire truck, which despite what you may think doesn't happen very often and is quite a treat for these daddy-loving boys. 

It was a happy birthday indeed for this little man.