Happy 4th Caelan -- BUGS RULE!!!!

Patrick and I agreed in the beginning that we would only do a small birthday party for Caelan.  Can we say slippery slope?  We're not sure what happened exactly.  One minute we are adamant about a small party, the next minute both of us wind up nodding at the idea of a bug party that Caelan wanted with his favorite three and four-year-old friends....and um, all their siblings!

 

Ooops, we did it again.    I decided I'd stick with one table for all the bugtastic food:

Special thanks to Karen and Michael for helping out Friday night with all the food prep.  Patrick and Michael made these ants on a log below.  Looks disgusting, but they were quite delicious.  Melted butterscotch chips on salted pretzels with chocolate sprinkles.

Victoria helped frost and decorate the bugalicious cupcakes:

 

 There was so much opportunity to do cute bug food, I couldn't pass it up.

See what I mean?

When it was time to eat, these donut holes just creeped right off the table!

This one was my favorite.

Perhaps the kid's favorite was the favors they got to take home.  Some yummy gummy buggies on a stick.  Thanks for buzzing by!

We had a build a bug craft, and an eat a bug (ritz crackers spiders with cheese spread and pretzel legs) table, but I think the kids really enjoyed the bug hunt the most!

  

And they were off!  Never seen so many kids run as fast to find their bugs!!!

Even if it wasn't quite what we had planned, we had a BEAUTIFUL day opening up Caelan's backyard to friends and neighbors and celebrating another bugtastic year for son #2.  We love you Caelan.  Happy Birthday! BUGS RULE.