Super Hero Bash

 About a month ago, the Yakima schools put on a mother/son superhero social for K-8th grade.  I've been known to voice my opinion on occasion about the lack of mother/son events.  In the church at least, there are daddy/daughter, mother/daughter, father/son activities but not really any mother/son.  I ended up being scheduled to work the night of the social, but with persistent calling/nagging on my part and an awesome co-worker willing to switch with me I got off for the night and had a blast with my boys at the party.

 Luke really wanted to go with us, but he didn't quite meet the age limit, and I didn't want to be pulling his hands out of the punch bowl all night.  Ryan said after we left, Luke sat by the door and cried for about 5 minutes.  It's so hard being the little brother!  I'm pretty sure after he cried out all his sorrows, he forgot all about us deserting him and had a great night with Ryan anyway.

 There were tons of fun activities for all the little super heroes and their moms.  The boys loved the bounce houses and this one where you tried to knock the floating balls out of the air with a baseball.

   Probably their favorite activity was the laser tag set up outside, complete with inflatable "boulders" to hide behind.  Unfortunately, it was the favorite event of everyone there and we had to stand in line for about 40 minutes for a turn.  I didn't get any pictures because I was having too much fun trying to take down the older boys we were playing with.  Grant and Tate both ran out of lives before I was done, but I didn't think it would be right to stay in the game as long as I could, taking out little boys just because it's surprisingly fun.  So I gave up my gun early and we went in to get our ice cream.

 There was a DJ playing all sorts of awesome tunes, many of which we have dance parties to at home when we feel the need for a little Pandora.  Needless to say, the boys weren't shy this time about showing off their dance moves and we had fun wompin' Gangnam style.

 My camera was not doing too well in the dark indoor lighting, but the boys had fun playing all the games- like carrying Skittles in a spoon to put them in a cup across the room- and winning cheap prizes...

 such as tiny magnifying glasses to make you have huge red eyes.

I had such a fun time with my boys.  We'll be back every year we're here in Yakima, or at least as long as they still want to be seen out and about with me.

See, I knew Luke had a fun time with daddy.  How could a boy this cute not have fun?!