Zombie Birthday

David turned 11 last month and it was a crazy time. He had wanted a bounce house and we envisioned 20 rowdy boys playing Zombie Tag in the backyard running off the perpetual energy that boys seem to have. It was not to be though because of the rain. We had to adjust things a bit and move things indoors... with all those energetic boys! So we decided to get gross with the food and go all out zombie with decorations too.

The food was my favorite. I found quite a few goodies online. I made feetloaf (in this case, it was really just a footloaf) and zombie entrails...


... and a flayed man cheeseball. That was a very disturbing image...

 

I tried to make things scary for the boys, but the really scary parts were solidly initiated by the boys. Like when they showed up with Nerf guns for battle (unplanned)...



... and when things suddenly went quiet at 1:30am and I found all of the boys in the basement having a Beyblade battle. (no picture of angry mom or surprised boys)

Instead of running around outside, they ran around inside spraying foam bullets everywhere imaginable.  Within the first 5 minutes of battle, half of the boys were in the bathroom together and broke Aubri's beaker with an ivy growing in it. ;.( We rounded the boys up to practice shooting zombies after that. The targets were outside and the boys were in the dry sun room.



This was a fun activity. Each boy had their own zombie target to compare with the other boys.



After the lights went out, there was a lot of fart talk and threats to draw sharpie mustaches, but the mustaches didn't happen. The farting was a constant though....

I made the kids settle for a quick group photo in the middle of the craziness. Cute boys!



Happy Birthday, David!