The Mota Family: Sir Preston Mota Turns 5!

We had a lot of fun celebrating Preston's 5th birthday! I can not believe he is already 5! My baby is getting big! His birthday fell on a week day, so daddy took the day off and we celebrated Preston all day! He woke up to donuts with a candle to blow out and all of his knight party decorations up. Mommy and daddy spent most of the night assembling this decor. We let Preston open one of his gifts from us and he picked the biggest one, his Knight Castle! This was one of the few things he asked for this year, so he was pumped! We spent the next couple of hours assembling this castle, but it was worth it! Preston LOVED it! After he played for a while, we all got dressed and went to the Dallas World Aquarium! We always enjoy seeing all the animals! It was a fun day with the family. We had planned to take Preston out for a birthday dinner, but his request was to "go home, order Chinese, play with my castle and open my other gifts!" So that is exactly wheat we did. We had a small cake for him to blow out candles on his birthday. It was a great day!

The Saturday following his birthday we had his birthday party. All he wanted was a "Knight Party", so that si exactly what he got! We did our best to turn our house into the Mota Castle and asked his guests to come dressed in their best castle attire (princess dresses, knight costumes etc). It was fun to see the kids dressed up and they had a blast! We did jousting practice with pool noodles, paint, stick horses and targets. We also had a capture the ring game to see who could catch the most rings on their joust and lastly we split up the party and had a nice snow ball battle. The kids had a great time! After all of the games, we headed inside for our castle feast! We served dragon toes (chicken legs), dragon nails (mac n cheese), dragon eggs (biscuits), golden nuggets (corn on the cob), canon balls (cheese balls), sword in the stone (cheese and crackers with a sword), royal jewels (fruit) and royal punch. It was fun! All of the kids had fun and Preston absolutely loved every minute of it! Happy 5th birthday Sir Preston! We look forward to celebrating you for many years to come! We love you sweet boy!