Is it Caleb or Goop?

So Caleb's birthday in on the 4th but we celebrated it on Saturday. Happy 10th birthday Caleb. We had a lot of fun and I am soooooooo grateful that my parents live in the country---allowing us to do so many fun things. Caleb wanted a Ben 10 party so I "attempted a Ben 10 cake". Not an easy cake to do. Goop is Caleb's favorite alien on the show. The show is about a boy who is 10 years old and he goes camping with his grandpa. Ben goes out into the woods and thinks he sees a falling star. But it really is the Omnitrix (like a watch). He ends up finding it in a crater. The watch somehow attaches to his arm and he tries different buttons and such to get it off but it never comes off. But while pushing buttons he ends up realizing that it transforms him into different aliens that have different powers. SO I put the Alien Goop on his cake and put some alien rocks and made the wooded trees out of some fake leaves and used pretzel rods as the stump. I put a watch (Omnitrix) under the trees and then pushed it into the cake making it look like it was in a crater. Caleb was happy with it. That is all that mattered.





We had an obstacle course set up for the kids to do to see who could get through it the fastest. They first started off throwing a frisbee. They had to throw it past a certain spot and if they didn't get it past the area they had to run and retrieve it and start again. If it went past the area they could run on the the next thing which was going under the trampoline. Next was 8 different tires that they had to run through making sure not to miss any of the tires. If they missed or fell down they had to start completely over. Then they had to go to the next station and get the hand weights and lift them 5 times and then run to the racer wheels and maneuver them around a chair and back to the starting point and then run and touch a tree. It was so fun to watch. Kids had a blast. Kids received some prizes and after eating their sticky gum, suckers and candy we did a BB gun contest. We hooked 6 balloons diagonally on a wooden post and gave each person five chances to hit the balloons. Caleb hit 2 of the 5 balloons and I was very impressed with that. Then we were amazed at Jordan (nephew) , Grandma's (my mom) and Lori's ability (my sister). They were not missing a single shot. They all hit five for five the first round. So we did a sudden death challenge and they kept hitting the balloons so we had to make it more challenging by moving them further away from the target. And still they amazed us. Finally mom and Lori missed and that put Jordan as the ALL TIME BB GUN CHAMP. Should I mention the kid is only 9 years old? Even Rachel and Ethan had a chance to shoot the gun. Everyone loved it. Then we roasted hotdogs and marshmellows on the huge smoker grill using willow sticks that the kids got from grandpa's tree and later had cake and icecream and Caleb opened presents. What a fun day. Very memorable for a 10th birthday party.