We’re always trying to find something to do with Skylar every weekend and forgot that the Natural Science Center is here in Greensboro. So, off we went to see the fun stuff here. We might look into having Skylar’s 5th birthday here next year. I really liked it. There are a lot of neat things to learn and see inside and a mini zoo outside.
We saw Turtles
We saw Monkeys
We saw prairie dogs
I think they’re cute.
I think this one is safe from Thanksgiving.
We went to a birthday party at a new kid’s fun place in Greensboro and let’s just say, it was awesome!! Skylar has been invited to parties back to back here recently, so I was actually excited about this place when we got our invite.
The birthday party was held at safari nation. It has everything!! Even a Zebra line aka Zip line.
They have this great snack bar.
You can shoot balls at people below.
The cool zebra line that Skylar was in love with! No fear this kid!!
Yep….he did this about 15 times…..ugh.. in a row.
The birthday party was held upstairs in the tree house.
The party was for a little girl named, SKYLER! hah She’s a cute thing that also came to Skylar’s party. They went to the same preschool. So, Skylar doe not discriminate against girly cake.
It’s all good to him!
The birthday girl!
Skylar and one of his BFFs sitting on the floor opening their goodie bags! Skylar had a great time. We plan to go back to this place again. It was that great!
I have been looking forward to going to Belle Chere in Asheville for about 5 years now. I used to go every year starting from when I was in college on. Well, Belle Chere is held the last weekend of July and guess whose birthday always fall on that same weekend in July? waaah… So, since this year we had 5 weekends in July, we were able to have Skylar’s birthday party the weekend before, yaaaay! I will say this, when we went in the past, we um stayed out much much later. 
I think he could be a over acting here, but maybe he was just as excited as we were.
It was HOTTT! My thinking was since we were in the mountains, that the heat would not be as bad. I was wrong. Skylar is drinking a bahama mama I think in a beer cup, but it’s non alcoholic of course.
We cooled off this way.
The doggies cooled off this way. It was cool to see them jump in the water after the balls. There were a lot of dogs.
there were geckos …
cool graffiti art…
Statues that could play music…
There were albinos that could play music, lol..
Um…..guys dressed up as girls running from bar to bar, lol. Although I think this guy is having a wardrobe malfunction.
The beautiful Asheville city buildings.
Skylar was really excited about the Monster truck! It was his favorite thing basically.
I miss this place. It’s always so packed!
Before we left, we made sure to get a pink lemonade from these little girls.
It’s definitely a different trip this time around, because things changed a lot, but you still have the good ol people of Asheville that I love to be around. You have all walks of life there and no one judges. I love that.
I’m a little behind on blogging, but June and July have both been super busy months and now we’re in August! Better late than never right? 
I found these superhero characters on the web and designed Skylar’s invitation, so I can’t take all the credit, lol. Skylar’s picture was taken by my good friend Emily. She did a great job.
THE CAKE-
I scoured the web for cool superhero cakes and saw so many that I thought were awesome. I combined 3 different cake ideas for Skylar’s cake. First off, I love CAKE BOSS! So, I always wanted to work with Rice Krispy treats, but just never had the chance.
I bought the rice krispies (what? you thought I made those? lol) and used about 5 rice krispies to make the fist. I really did not think I could do it. I just molded it all together, to where I thought it resembled a fist. I also made my own fondant and colored it as well.
I added the green shimmer dust (edible) and then finished it up with some edible gel for the creases. I was really impressed with myself, since this was my first time!
This was all done the week before the party. It’s edible, but I didn’t plan for anyone to eat this, so that’s why I made it so far ahead.
This finished product.
The back of the cake with the superman cape.
Up-close of the spider. had the HARDEST time with the spider, ha! I am not the best at carving, so this was one of the things that had me stumped, lol. I looked for candy spiders too and couldn’t find them.
Attire
Skylar looking cool in his superhero gear.
Favors
These were super cute and unfortunately, they are the only pictures I have. They are superhero super pop suckers. They have their own masks and capes.
I didn’t get any pictures of the favors at the party, but I did have 1 extra bag for a guest who couldn’t make it. Favors were personalized superhero bags, mask, crazy straw, pop rocks, ring pops (although these are missing from this bag….terry!!), super hero tattoos, pez dispenser and candy stix. All from the Dollar tree!
Getting ready to go to our party!! Think he’s excited?
Location
We had Skylar’s party at the Greensboro Children's Museum and I highly recommend this place for play dates, birthday parties, or for education purposes. We opted for a private room and the room is huge! They provided the tablecloths and lots of tables. I was very happy with them. Although, we only had the room to use for 2 hours, the kids and guest can stay all day at the museum if they wanted.
I like to make photos ops at Skylar’s Parties. I feel sometimes it’s hard to take pictures and this makes it easier...usually. So I painted the city landscape one day on a queen bed sheet.
I just realized that I never showed pictures of his photo op from his 2nd birthday. Ooops! Here are a few. I sent their individual pictures with the thank you cards. I got this idea from my fellow blogger and friend, Crystal.
Set up of the Cake area-
Oh, the only complaint about the Children’s Museum that I have, is that you are only given 20 minutes prior to your party to set up. WHAT??? Anyhoo, that explains why I didn’t get the pictures I wanted. Oh well. c'est la vie, right?
The cake table is set up for the most part. The cake back drop is a city landscape that I thought would be a cute “batman theme”. I pulled out some paint and cut up some old card board that was sitting in the garage and painted it. The yellow squares representing windows are posts its.
Another picture that Emily took of Skylar.
I also placed candy rocks (chocolate rocks) where the fist is. The kids liked that. I had to place more on the table cloths, so the kids could all get one.
Skylar and one of his partner’s in crime.
Happy Birthday Skylar!!
Make a wish sweet boy. My guess is that he’s wishing for more toys, lol.
Ok, I’m not a seamstress, so don’t make fun of my concoction of a cape.
There goes the fist!
Skylar is handing out cake and eating at the same time, haha.
On the menu was Pizza, Cake, Ice-cream, juice/water and of course tons of candy. Oh, forgot to mention that this was also a dress up party if you wanted to as well.
Party Pics taken by Terry-
One of Skylar’s pre-school classmates showed up as Batman.
Running from station to station.
We have newscasters here. A superhero and a princess.
This was a funny foursome at this point. Two are Skylar’s best friend's from pre-school and the other is my friend’s daughter who had no trouble fitting in with the group.
They did get in trouble with the law though. 
This picture is so sweet.
Play crashers-
Terry took these pictures, but told me what happened. Apparently, there was a play being put on by these older kids and well, Skylar and his crew ran up in there and sabotaged it! Then ran out like they did running in. The parent’s I’m sure, weren’t sure if this was part of the play, lol. Now, I’m sure if I saw this, I would have said something to Skylar that this is not nice, but…it was his party and I was not there. So, all good right?
Cat in the hat-
Cat in the hat was there, so kids could sit and listen and meet the Cat himself. :)
Actually before they started to read you could meet the cat and this is another funny series of pictures. Taylor and Skylar saw the cat and wanted to meet him. You see how far back they are. As soon as this picture was taken, they scooted to the front, bypassing everyone in line. Again, I was not here at this time.
Parting pics. I tried to get everyone, but hopefully everyone can send me their pictures too.
Logan is dressed up as Hermione. I loved her costume!!
Carissa’s crazy bunch!
Layla I had to show this one of your kiddos. It cracks me up!!
My brother and family! They’re all superheros too!
Saying goodbye! Party is officially over.
He’s all turned around here. To think he never took a nap all day and went to bed at 10, crazy. I would have past out in the car.
Home opening presents!
Thank you to everyone who came out and celebrated with us. If you dressed up, then thanks for being good sports about it, lol. We had a GREAT time. Skylar really did!! Now, we’re ready for a crazy year of a 4 year old.
Onto the next…
