Our Bday craft

Well..... I have to confess to one of my newest addictions.....

 

Marquee letters!!! 

 

Like these below.... I made them..... not all at once.... mostly.  I found these and OH  MY I cannot help myself.... I feel empty inside if I don't have any to do....

 

truly....

 

addicted....consumed.... anything works...but anyway.... I digress....  here are some that I've made recently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love seeing the girls here.

 

 

 

SO I thought it would be a fun project for the girls to do.... they really liked it, all did them except for one that couldn't sit still long enough to do it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're all done!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVED it!!!!  They were excited too and I've heard back from most of them that they're really enjoying them as their night lights in their room.  They are battery operated so you can move them anywhere you want to.

 

GIDDY!!!

Spaaaaaa........

Our spa session started with a simple manicure, I am very happy I chose a simple one because these girls were wacky and ready to play!

 

 

It was actually my sister's Mary Kay set, you put one scrubby on, then another, then a gel, then wash it off and lotion...

 

easy and they loved it.  At this point though we were all speaking with British accents with some Texan thrown in there.

 

 

 

Next stop, modified pedis and facials.  Quick soak in the tub and a mask = awesome!!  It smelled sooooo good in there!

 

 

 

No eye cucumbers for this girl, she ate them!  (she did later ask where her cucumbers were and Katie told her "you ate them")  tooooooo funny!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't even express how almost frantic this time point was...it felt like there were 50 kids we were responsible for giving the spa treatment to, I don't know what happened but they were all extraordinarily needy all at the same time.....  but it was so fun at the same time. 

 

to be continued.......

It was a quiet party....

Quiet is only relative in the terms of number of kiddos....the actual volume of the household was pretty LOUD!  These 10 year olds are c.r.a.z.y. and I can't wait to do it again!

 

We started with a balloon game where we tie a balloon to each ankle...and chase each other to pop them!  Totally fun.... our quiet neighborhood all of a sudden became very loud with much laughing and screaming.  SCREAMINH!!! I did hear us echoing...oops.....  Katie and I were as loud and screaming as the girls were.

 

Hilarious!

 

 

 

Action shot....  

 

 

At one point, a balloon was RIGHT by me...I was sooooo excited....

 

STOMP

 

POP

 

YESSSSS..... ahhhhhh...... only to realize it was my own balloon I popped.... boo! 

 

 

Then we jumped right into the piñata because I wanted to do it before it got dark outside. 

 

 

the Birthday Girl is so strong she broke it on her first round...so Michael was able to jiffy rig it so they could keep playing for a little while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we had dinner and Happy Birthday song and cake.

 

 

 

Then presents.

 

 

 

 

Whew!!  Now that the formalities were done - the rest of the party can start.....

 

to be continued.....