The long awaited Birthday!

Brielle has been talking about her birthday for a year now. Last year must have been a disappointment, because as soon as it was over she was talking about this year. She has never had a friend party, it was the big #5, and she talked non-stop about it, so we went BIG!

We invited 7 girls

The food and craft table

Brielle went to the store with me and picked out all the treats and junk food they were going to eat. It is all her favorite things!

The cake! I can't believe there is a 5 on top of that cake!

And I made this tent for them to sleep in! It was so much fun!

The girls started coming and immediately started having pillow fights. I didn't even know they knew you were suppose to have pillow fights at sleepovers...it must be natural. They were all so excited they could hardly stand it. For a lot of them, it was their first sleepover.

We painted wooden paper dolls.

and josh painted nails. The girls thought it was pretty funny when he painted his own too.

We had pillow case races.

We ate cake and ice cream.

We played duck, duck, goose.

And then (like a crazy person) I thought we could turn on a movie and they would magically all fall asleep. They just wanted to go play, so play they did.

About 10:30 we pulled them out of Brie's room and told them it was time to settle down and Brielle picked out another movie. By now, Destiny was asleep on the couch. She was the first one. We laid all the girls down in their sleeping bags.
Brielle came in and sat on Joshs' lap and said she needed a little break.
She was asleep in seconds.

Eventually one by one they all started dropping off. The last 2 were just before midnight. I wanted a picture of them all sleeping soundly so I tip toed out and left the lights off and snapped a picture. When I looked at it Destiny (who was sleeping on the couch) was gone. I panicked! I started counting bodies. Checked the locked door, and went to get Josh. We flipped on the lights and finally found her....

Laying right on top of Brielles head. (this is zoomed in from the picture above) She had fallen off the couch. We were laughing so hard that not one of them woke up.

So, they are finally sleeping soundly right? We can go in and go to bed. I was so surprised to wake up to GIGGLING GIRLS at 4:00 AM! Yes 4:00! I quickly went out and told them to go back to sleep, I then laid on the couch so they would be quite. Brielle is the only one who slept through the 4:00 am giggle fest.


In the morning we had breakfast! Just cereal and yogurt, nothing fancy, but by that time I was exhausted. I had bought the straw cereal bowls though so they were excited.

Brielle thought the party was fantastic! She kept telling me "MOM your the best. Your the coolest. You are the best mom ever!" Every time I put a new decoration up she would exclaim "it is so beautiful..."
Needless to say I think it was a success.

Happy Birthday my BIG 5 year old!