Super Girls!!

When your oldest comes home and tells you that she doesn't play with the girls at school because they don't like superheroes you know that there won't be a lot of pink and lace at the next birthday party.  So the Super Girl theme was picked, unfortunately I quickly found out that you can't find anything pre made for these parties unless you want to pay a fortune on etsy.  Of course everyone knows I have a pinterest problem so we got to work on our decorations and invitations.

Mask and cape making station.

 I do have to say that I was pretty proud of our party this year and my ability to not invite the entire neighborhood.  I scaled things down a bit which meant that we had the right amount of kids, parents and superheroes playing inside and outside during the party.

Water balloons and squirt guns were the winning activities for the day.

 After the kids and some adults turned themselves into superheroes they headed over for a little picture posing, I mean flying over buildings with their super strength.

Super Friends!

The Super Grandparents were hiding inside...

Obviously I am not a teacher, because we needed a bunch of help trying to gather roughly 15 little people for the start of the obstacle course.  Each person had to wait in line for their name to be called before they ran through hoops, dived into a tunnel, squirt a shield with their water gun, tossed a ball into a bucket and finally raced a pink donkeyish toy to the finish line.  Once they got to the end of course there had to be a prize so everyone took home a medal.  

That's our overgrown child of a friend Andy.

I am sure this was an enlightening conversation.  



Super Grr was a course official.

What kind of party is it if you can't eat cake?!

 After everyone left for the evening it was finally time to let the girls open presents.  Am I the only person who hates having the kids open gifts while everyone is still there?  Once Grant took A to a little boys party and when he opened the gift and didn't like it she started crying.  I vowed never to have that awkward moment happen in my house so we wait until the party is over.

Thank you to everyone who came to the girls birthday party, we love having everyone in our home and celebrating the cutest, sweetest and most challenging little people in our lives.

Now to plan for the theme for next year...