Sunday, February 15, 2015

It's Great to be Eight!

We only do "friend" parties every other year so my kids basically have two years to dream and come up with plans for their big party. This year was a friend party year for Eliza and she opted for a party at our house. Anyone that knows me, knows that I love parties but I stress a lot with the planning and preparation part. My goal for this year was just to keep things simple! And I think I actually pulled it off (for the most part). Eliza wanted a "late night" party where we kind of had the makings of a slumber party without the actual sleeping over part.


Our neighborhood has a TON of kids the same age as Eliza so her hardest part was making the list small enough but also not leaving anyone out. She invited the 7 girls from her Primary class, a neighbor from across the street, and 4 of her friends from school (2 of them actually live in the neighborhood also but different ward/classes). It was a big group since most of them actually came! But they were really cute and fun.

The beginning started off with making Valentine's. It was fun to see the girl's creativity and how sweet some of the girls were in who they were making Valentine's for.


We followed the craft time with a pizza dinner. Then moved onto some games. We played the candy bar game and then spin the bottle of nail polish (depending on what color it landed on - the girls would paint a nail that color). I missed pictures of this portion since I was trying to make sure it ran smoothly!

Cake and presents happened next. Eliza loved each and every one of her presents. She loved that she got two of the stuffed owl dolls and promptly named them Valentine and Love. 













We tried to settle down a little bit and watch the Disney premiere of "Bad Hair Day" with some popcorn but that lasted maybe 30 minutes before the girls wanted to do something else. I stopped trying to stick to a schedule at this point and let the girls just play. 





So much fun to get to know more of these amazing girls but I'm also glad that we don't have another friend party until Chloe turns 6 this fall. 

1 comment:

Jessica said...

hahaha that is so hilarious about "bad hair day!" i actually really liked that one. :) but then again, i'm a sucker for disney movies. looks like they all had fun! and you're braver than i am -- i don't think i could have kept up with that many party guests!! :)