Tylen's Birthday Party

Bode's best buddy, Tylen, had a birthday party today held at Dart Warz, which is basically a laser-tag facility except instead of lasers, the kids (and some of the adults) use an elaborate arsenal of Nerf dart guns.  The place was a madhouse--a new party every forty five minutes or so, kids running all around--the expected pandemonium when you get a lot of elementary school kids together.  Before the boys went into battle, I got a picture of the five of them.  Here's hoping this picture is not used in some VH-1 special in fifteen years :-)

The boys, from left-to-right, are Henry (a friend of Tyler's from scouts), Tylen, Levi, and James.  I know Tylen, Levi, and Bode were all in first grade together.  Levi and Tylen are in the same second grade class; not sure from where James hails, but it was a good group.  I tried to take some action shots, but there was a find mesh net between the gallery and the battle-field to protect us from stray bullets.  Here is the only one where you can actually tell it's Bode...

The game MC (a lot like Killian from The Running Man) did call out Tylen for a birthday shout-out before one of the games.  I took a movie.

The boys played for about forty-five minutes, after which we had cake, merriment, and presents.

Of course, there was cake and the obligatory singing.

We had a great time at Tyler's party.  Before we left, the two buddies took a final picture.

A huge snow storm is expected to hit Colorado Springs, with some snow starting tonight (1-3 inches) and then anywhere from six inches to two feet on Sunday and Monday.  I think Bode won't have any school on Monday, which means a snow day for all of us, because someone has to stay home :-)  Pleasant week to you all.