Johnny's Birthday Celebrations

 Johnny turned 4 on the 4th so that meant that it was his golden birthday! I really debated it back and forth, worried that a gold party wouldn't be exciting for a 4 year old but then also really wanting to do golden birthdays for my kids.... But ultimately I decided to just go for it! And he was a happy, spoiled little boy and loved it. I also cheated and we went to my parents house and celebrated his birthday again while we were there and did a little shark themed party... so he got the best of both worlds.

He got to open his golden wrapped presents and have traditional coffee cake in the morning.

 

He is always trying to steal my slushie making cup so I got him his own and he was stoked! haha

 

 

For Johnny's party we had golden things like sunglasses, noise makers, hats, and golden bars with gold chocolate coins in them.

Golden cake! Made by, of course, Buck's amazing sister.

 

He had cousins, siblings, and one friend come.

 

For our main activity, we panned for gold! Buck made a standing trough and we got pie tins and punched holes in them. We filled it with dirt and sand and then of course gold nuggets.

 

And then the kids got to dig for gold in a gold bar that had some fools gold in it. 

Johnny got a little discouraged at one point.

 

But it was all made right when he got his gold!

 

Then we did cake and presents and it was a success!

 

The next day we were in Boise! And we had that second little party. He got to spend his birthday swimming and then we did a shark cake and some more gifts!

 

All in all I daresay he had a great 4th birthday! And may he remember forever more that he properly celebrated his golden birthday. 💛😉