Happy Birthday to You!

Lol, what a fun time we had at Lauren's 10th Birthday Party. Really you guys, your kids are just wonderful. They were so darling laughing and excited. I love girls. I love your girls!

Lauren (obviously) ate up all the attention!















The cake was actually SO easy. Yet looks impressive! I will post a how to post on this as anyone could do it.










Group Shot. Lauren the goof off as usual.

Kate had the table all to herself...briefly.

Kids were having a ball from the get go. They must have needed a fun day off at the end of the week!

They ate like champs. Eggs, bacon, sausage in croissants, fruit salad, bagels w/cream cheese, french toast bake and juice!

Games were my favorite, we played "Who am I" (taped Disney characters to the back of the girls and everyone had to treat the person like who they were. If they guessed it, they win. From Mulan to Maid Marian (is that Disney?) that was a great beginning.

Then, "Go to Bed"...a secret Mom "winks" the kids to "bed". (read, hit the floor) Lol until she is the last one standing-unless someone can guess who it is!

On to everyone's favorite, we played "Panic Word". Two teams with a stack of word cards. Rotating girls drew a card and had to give clues to make their team say the word. Timed to a few minutes, whichever team got the most cards won. Highly competitive and fast, plays like verbal charades meets 100,000 Pyramid.

Tremendous game guys! Fun to watch too!

In keeping with the sleep over theme, we decorated pillow cases with fabric paint and markers. I found this fabric computer paper that has a peel and stick backing. Download a pic (or any graphic) print and stick on a craft! Cool! (Many of the girls were into this Live-Laugh-Love theme. Love E. Kliber's take though, "Live-Laugh-Liz!"

SO good to spend a little time with Madi too! We NEVER get to see her!!!! Such a cutie!

Diligent workers.

Ok, I didn't MEAN to do a pinata! (sorry, I don't know how to make a tilde on the computer)

But we did and did they love it! We initially just got it because it was so cute but we ended up filling it and doing it. It was TOUGH to break and there were loud chants of "Ma-di! Ma-di! Ma-di!

and "Let's go Janie, let's go! WOW.

Of course, it broke in half and fell the ground refusing to participate by breaking. We nearly beat that thing to death and could have taken out a kid or two in the process. I had to pick it up, rip the top off and fling it across the room! Much to the delight and screaming of some cutie pie girls. We also painted toes, did some Eduardian hair do's and learned a new dance!

Girl's fave? Why the limo of course! One small benefit of the magazine is the ability to trade! No I didn't pay for this ridiculous thing! LOL! You will see their ad in March issue. :) But they were so wonderful and the limo was just beautiful! I wish you all could have seen it. I have never seen the girl's faces so beaming with excitement. So fun. And really we did it for YOU parents too so you wouldn't have to come out and get them so late.

2nd load

First load takes off...with loud music and water and soda. Very Fun!

This whole party was so much fun to plan and pull off. I can't thank you all enough for letting your girls be a part. Lauren loved all of her VERY thoughtful gifts and was just thrilled to spend time with some girlfriends. I hope they had fun, I think they did!

I will send some individual pics to you all. I have some great shots of each of the girls. :) That's all folks.