Santiago's 10th birthday party

The day after Santiago's birthday, we invited his friends from school to have a camp out on our backyard!! Him and the whole class were soo excited about the idea of sleeping in a tent, roasting marshmallows and having fun together for a whole day and night.

We talked about the party for along time, made this invitations and planned out the activities.
When the day finally came, Santiago could hardly believe it!

We picked up your friends from school and Daddy and I drove everyone in both our cars to our home which is far away from school...a good 45 minute drive.

Everyone was hungry when we got home, we all ate and conversed for a while. Such a sweet group of kids to have around.

Everyone found a comfortable place to sit and eat. Daniel sat up on the little playground house and ate with some of the girls. They made him feel so special and included him in their games the whole time. Needles to say, he had the time of his life!!

Pretty soon after lunch, we started to grind the wheat into flour to make our pizza dough. Everyone had a turn and we all mixed the ingredients and kneaded the dough.

Daddy liked it too!!!

In the middle of our pizza dough preparation, Santiago got tired of it and went looking for thin bamboo sticks to whittle and have ready for later in the night for marshmallow roasting time.

Pretty soon, more kids became interested and wanted to whittle too...

The bunnies were a hit!!

our friends from Spain came and joined the party, then we played games...

Then it was pinata time!!!!

After the pinata, it started raining like never before... it was quite a rainstorm with hail and all.
Needless to say, the camping out in the backyard idea ended there..:(

Santiago was very sad and he also started to feel ill.
He had a headache and a low grade fever. He went upstairs to sleep very early.

Meanwhile, the rest of us had pizza. My good friend Libe came over and helped me with the kids.

They were so excited about the sleepover.
We organized all of their sleeping bags in the living room, told stories and went to sleep.

The next morning, thank God, Santiago was feeling all better. They played together for a while, had breakfast and we sang happy birthday to the birthday boy!

Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
We love you
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
May your dreams come true

When you blow out the candles
One light stays aglow
It's the love light in your eyes
Wherever you go!