*E*P*P*S*: It's their party

Friday, October 24, 2008

It's their party

Over the summer, Tika, Carsun and our neighbors; who are the same age, decided that they would get into the "planning business".
Now when I say "planning business", I mean they think of ANYTHING and plan it. A babysitting business, lemonade stands, yard sales, trips to family dollar, you name it...they probably have it on their list!
We pretty much just let them think of anything and when they bring it up we say, "we'll have to see" (you know, the normal "mom" answer!)
About a month ago, they sat down and spent a good bit of time planning a halloween party. Well, halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so I actually listened to all of their ideas. Jamie and I decided that it might be fun to do since the kids had spent so much time on it and since there was no school on Friday this week.
The moms changed the time, and decided that no costumes would be worn, we planned the food and let the kids figure out the rest.
We invited the neighborhood carpool group and let each of our kids invite 3 of their school friends to attend a night of goul-ish fun!
The girls planned fun games! They played ghost in the graveyard, mummy wrap, the broom game, BOO-ngo and the candy bar game.
They decorated cupcakes ate food & candy like crazy and we sent them home to their parents. (who were probably quite upset their kids were wired for all hours of the night!!)
We ended up having 22 girls and one boy. (he actually didn't mind - I don't even think it phased him...he was 3!)
The girls all had a BLAST -- Jamie & I even got in on the fun, and enjoyed ourselves too!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Looks like tons of fun! We partied last night too, but it was for our Grandpa Vic, he turned 88.; October 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM

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