Camp Jack

 We celebrated Jack's fifth birthday with Camp Jack! It was an amazing evening with a wonderful group of boys. Jack is so lucky to have such great friends! We held Camp Jack in the backyard of the Smiths, good friends who have the backyard of a little boy's dream! It is hard to capture what a magical time we had but I will try with these pics.

 Jack was very adamant that I make a Camp Jack sign with "no girls allowed" on it. He allowed Madeline to come for a little bit :)

The food table

 Sticks and Ants on a Log

Gotta have Bug Juice at camp!

Table for activities and dinner- the table and tree stumps were the perfect height for 5 yr olds!

 I made the water bottles for favors.

After riding the zip line (which I failed to photograph) the boys went on a nature hunt.

The put on their bear hats and were ready to go! 

Bryce and Jack

 Connor and Andrew

 The group

 Off to the woods

After the hunt there were rides in the paddle boat on the pond

The colors of the leaves were stunning!

Next up- build airplanes and fly them. I had 4 Boy Scouts from our troop at church come to be "camp counselors." They were awesome with the boys and the little boys thought the Scouts were so cool!

Flying their planes off the deck

Dinner time

 Madeline saddled up next to her crush, Griffin. He super cute- she has good taste!

 Jack and Brayden- soccer buddies

 Griffin kept his camo sunglasses and bear hat on all night!

 As the boys completed an activity, they "earned" a badge. They loved this!

 We set up a large tent in the yard and the boys loved running around in it. 

Next up- trailer rides on the tractor. Safe? Maybe not. Fun? Definitely!

Here is Clay explaining the Candy Cannon- a slingshot that throws candy way  up in the air. I gave the boys camouflage bags and they went to town. It was a great way to get rid of all our Halloween candy!

 It's raining candy!

 The Candy Cannon

 The Dessert Table

 Pumpkin spice cupcakes

 Smore making

 Smores on a stick

The cake- We saw the cake here and Jack was obsessed! I had Harris Teeter do the cake with the river and then we did the rest. The tree is a rice krispie treat I molded and then iced. The boat and some rocks are Mary Janes and the other rocks are tootsie rolls. I found the animals at AC Moore in the toy section. 

Hanging out the in the tent

 Smore time

 Kimball

 Griffin

 Andrew

 Danny

 The birthday boy

 David

 Griffin

Yes, the party was awesome! Yes, it was a lot of work! But when David looked at me three hours later and said "I don't want to go home" and Jack said "Mom, you are the best mom ever!" I knew it was all worth it. Clay and I had so much fun celebrating our oldest at Camp Jack! We love you sweet boy!

The party printables came from  Shindig Parties. Amanda has adorable stuff and amazing customer service! Check out her blog here- lots of cute ideas for the holidays!