Super Party At SuperGames

This year, we had Degen's birthday party at SuperGames. It is a large "bounce" facility where we have played many times. We got half of the space all to ourselves with 2-3 staff members to keep the kids safe on the bouncers. Our theme was superheroes.

I thought that this was a really fun party. We had the space for 2 hours, and I liked that it was an open play time. Most party spaces give you a specific time to play and a specific time to eat/open gifts/etc. Because the space was ours, guests were able to snack or play as they pleased the entire time. We had a good group of families who were able to join us! 

Darren & Kyrie preparing to race through an inflatable obstacle course!

Darren had as much fun as the kids and spent much of his time on the bouncers with the them!

Degen got a special SuperGames t-shirt. He was so serious when the manager was talking to him and giving him his shirt. He wore that shirt for the rest of the day! 

Because our party was for a younger group of kids, I didn't think that they would open the rock wall, but they did and almost all of the kids tried to climb it. They had a blast! 

Degen loves air hockey, and he had a lot of fun playing with his goofy daddy!

Cake time! I think in the past, I have usually devoted a whole post just to the birthday cake. For this cake, I put together three smaller cakes, each with a superhero logo. They came together pretty quickly, each cake taking about 30 minutes to put together. I asked Degen what kind of cake he wanted, and he said vanilla. Darren was a little disappointed with that, so I used a chocolate filling for the Captain America cake. Each filling also had sprinkles, which was fun, but the sprinkles didn't allow the layers to stick together very well, so next time I will know to put a layer of icing on both sides. I had people ask about my red icing since it turned out so bright. In the past, I have used the gel colors to make red, but you have to use a lot and it still seems a bit pink and imagination or not, the coloring seems to kind of flavor the icing a bit (?). Knowing I didn't want to deal with that again, I used spray-on color. I have used this before for a black (graduation) cake. It is such a dream, and the color really does come out nicely. Spiderman had the most detail, but was definitely one of the favorites. Serving up cake, the kiddos would just call out which superhero they wanted, which was cute (and easy!). We went home with just a handful of pieces, which was perfect! 

We really enjoyed the afternoon spent celebrating Degen with all of our friends!