It was a PARTY!

Some people think I'm crazy, but if you are someone that has to attend the birthday parties, you think I'm sane. I don't do single parties for the kids. They get treated like royalty on their actual birthday, so their party is always combined the weekend between their actual birthdays. For the past 2 years they have "agreed" on a theme...or maybe Carson just didn't have an opinion until this year :-) We had a Cars movie/Princess (focusing on Snow White) party. I chose to go with "color" as my theme! The party was supposed to be at 10am, but because our garage sale was rained out the weekend before, our neighborhood decided to reschedule it for this past weekend. If any of you have been to one of those crazy neighborhood garage sales where the street becomes a one lane road of CRAZY drivers, that is what ours turns in to, so we decided trying to park 10 extra cars out there wasn't going to happen. However, I'd already planned a brunch menu, so we moved the party to 4:30 and had breakfast for dinner. (Bonus: We opened up our garage sale again and made a pretty penny!!)

This was what was occuring in my house at 3:45...the party was supposed to start at 4:30. Delaney had a cold and had pretty much passed out in her floor...she NEVER naps in the afternoon, so I was frightened as to what kind of attitude we might find when she did wake up. Carson was very into whatever Matt had been watching on TV and refused to go change his clothes...of course, through all of this I'm running around like a mad woman trying to prepare food, make sure I have everything out, and looking to see if there are any last minute messes to be cleaned up.

Obviously from the looks of this picture, everyone got dressed and cheered up. The party was fun and the kids received lots of fun toys (the yellow balloon being one of them). They have new dress up clothes (a pirate, princess, butterfly wings, and Snow White), lots of outside toys (balls, bubbles, bug catchers), digital cameras, clothes galore, and some coloring and activity books.

This is the butterfly version of Snow White the morning after the party...the cold symptoms were back in full force, so we lazied around the house in the morning before going to lunch with my family to celebrate the 3 awesome dads we are blessed to have in our family!