Party day...

What a fun day! We had 10 girls (Cadence, Brinay, Sarah, Dale, Chloe, Sarah G., Shanae, Shealynn, Victoria, and Emily) ages 4-8 here for 2 hours, the time just flew! Before I knew it it was 3:30 (only 1/2 hour remaining and we hadn't had cake yet!). When they each came in I put some makeup on them so they were ready to enter the castle. Then the girls made necklaces, and tiaras, they played stick the horn on the unicorn, the messy stepsisters (2 teams, each team had to be the first to pick up their messes), and princess favorite things (the classic cookie sheet of items - princess items in this case- and one item is removed and one person has to guess or remember what is missing. We had about 8 games we could have played, but I didn't realize how quickly the time would pass. I thought we might even have a ball, each fairy tale has a dance. Emily was so happy to have a party.

Even David got into it! He helped me by taking the girls coats at the door, and then was the royal photographer and took some really great photos of the party. At one point the some of the girls were waiting for the next craft to start and he started a fun little game with them. He was a great help.

Darryl was the games man, which he always does a great job with, I wonder how things would be different had he decided to become a school teacher. I'm sorry we ran out of time for the games, next time we will have to have a longer party.

Oakley was right in with the games, not understanding the rules but willing to play too. He even played put the horn on the unicorn and didn't complain about wearing the mask to cover his eyes.

I will have to post pictures on another day and talk more about the party, and about my sweet Emily who is days away from 5.

Also this evening we went to a 40th birthday for Kelly Berreth. We wrote on the card, "Sorry to hear about the passing of your youth, but you're not dead yet. Here's to another year, hope you make it all the way through. P.S. You keep up pretty good for an old guy." It was a fun night, mostly visiting, and eating. Miranda made black forest cake from scratch, yummy! The night included a chocolate whipped cream fight between Kelly and Rebbecca Joe, and then a snow fight inside and out. I thought that Darryl and Kelly were going to throw her in a snowbank. She did however end up outside with only one shoe on.

What a fun day. I'm glad to have this blog set up to help me remember these fun times. But it's off to bed now, time change is going to mess things up for getting David out the door in the morning.