March is our big birthday month here at our house, with both of the boys having birthdays only 9 days apart. While they are little and have common friends (and interests) we have decided to do a joint birthday party for them. This year we decided on an outer space theme, since the boys love rockets, space shuttles, planets and anything that flies. They love to launch model rockets with Dad and to play with any of their toy rockets. So, it seemed like the perfect theme for them!
Our invitations (already part of a scrapbook page):
Here are the birthday boys with their little sister, all clad in the space logo (and personalized) party shirts that I made for each of the children in attendance.
Pop and Nana and Uncle Mike and Aunt Chang were able to come out for the party and the boys had such fun having them there for their special day! Abby also loved spending time with Aunt Chang while I handled the details of the party and Chang acted as surrogate mother for the day :) Thanks, Chang!!
Of course Abby got a tiny party tee-shirt to wear! I made two little ones for Abby and also the other baby who came, Adriana.
Me and my little girl!
For one of our activities, we played with Moon Sand. If you are not familiar with it, this is basically like moist, colored beach sand that you can mold and it never dries out. Lots of fun, especially for Ben and Nicholas, who played with it for almost the entire time we had playtime!
Talya loved it, too!
An ideal husband in training. Ben immediately ran to get their play cleaning set to clean up the spilled Moon Sand. Soon, the other boys at the party were taking the lead and helping out :).
Smiley Koen!
Our second activity station was an outer space mural and space-themed foam stickers. The kids got to play with stickers on the walls. FUN! Nate was at this one for practically the entire time. 
We had Natey's new rocket tent that he got for his birthday all set up. The kids loved crawling through it. Peek-a-boo, Brianna! 
Talya loved it, too :)
Lunchtime! On our menu: space shuttle-shaped hot dogs, "blazing sun" cheese balls, star and moon shaped cheese chunks and some boring, non-themed adult food :).
Don't mess with tough-guy Nicholas!
My favorite photo subject! Samantha smiles for every photo I take of her. What a breath of fresh air when it's such effort to get my boys to smile :) 
Our craft for the day was painting Moon Rocks. We now have two brightly colored paper weights in our living room :).
Next up: cake time! I was quite proud of my space shuttle and earth cakes that I made for the boys with homemade fondant. It was my first time using it and it was a lot of fun! Of course we needed two cakes so this worked out perfectly :)
Mom and her boys (and Nicholas - lol!)
We had sparkler candles for the cakes. Very cool looking but very smokey. Note to self for next time! The kids seemed to enjoy them, though :)Our big FOUR YEAR OLD, Benjamin!
And our big TWO YEAR OLD, Nate!
Mom and Dad and the boys (and Nicholas - lol!)
Yum, cake!
Now, can you believe this?? All 11 kids sat nicely on a couch for a group photo. Well, either they sat nicely or they were too wedged in to even move :). Nonetheless, we had no tears or screaming that they wouldn't take a photo so we'll call this a good photo shoot :)
The boys sat in their little Anywhere chairs to open their presents. 
Finally, in addition to their tee-shirts, homemade rocks, and a little candy and some stickers, the boys and I made homemade activity pads for all of the friends to take home. We printed out coloring pictures and activities with a space theme and put this special cover on them.
Finally, Pop and Nana and Miss Abigail.
Happy birthday, Benjamin and Nate, we love you bunches!
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