Benjamin's Be-lated sixth birthday party

We held Benjamin's 6 year old friend birthday party exactly one month after his real Birthday.  I was feeling a lot of guilt over this.  Last year we were out of town at a family wedding so he had his friend party a few weeks after we got back from Navuoo.  This year we weren't out of town, but in the middle of finishing off our basement.  We've been in limbo for a couple of months.  These things always take longer than you expect them too.  I was planning on the basement being all done, but the project started to really drag on.   Finally I sent out the invites and told our builder that he just had to wrap it up before the party date, or I'd just finish the painting myself.  He was really good and came and finished it up.  For Ben's Birthday this year we did a "pretend"  sleepover party.  I've don't this theme before and it's been a real hit.  I buy pillows and flannel fabric on black Friday sales.  Then I sew ten pillow cases for the boys to take home.  The boys all wore their pajama's, ate pizza, had a pillow fight and watched a movie.  Great!  This year it seemed a little more chaotic than past birthday parties.  Some of the boys didn't want to watch the movie and Kirk was organizing a pretty elaborate pillow fight by dividing the kids out by age and establishing rules.  Ben couldn't decide on a type of cupcake so we opted for the easiest cake ever and that was a doughnut cake.  It was fun to hold the party in our brand new basement and we really liked using our new kitchen.  I'll post pictures of it soon.