Wednesday, May 28, 2008

lily's celebration

at the end of april, we had a big, combined playgroup birthday party for lily and her friend ben. their birthdays are only two days apart. the party was planned last minute and it wasn't until after we handed out all the invitations on sunday that my friend and i realized we had invited over 25 kids!!! luckily it was at ben's grandma's house which is quite big with a beautiful yard.

my wonderful stepmom came down and showed her animals to all the kids. the weather was absolutely gorgeous and the kids seemed to have fun. i'll amit that i was a bit crazed (i never got it all together before the party), but the important things were in place. despite the craziness it was fun to all be together as one big group.
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2 comments:

Scrappycook said...

What a fun party!!!! 25 kids - are you NUTS?! Good grief, I thought 12 was bad . . .

Amanda said...

I love the picture of the driveway!

We had such a fun time. Thank you for inviting us!

quotables

"is that lily holding baby lily?" -lily's response when i showed her a picture of gracie holding her when lily was a baby.

"drama class is actually a lot of fun." -gracie (this is only humorous in that grace seemed surprised by how much she likes drama class. this from my child who we refer to as "a drama queen" when she is not around.)

"mom, you can go with my teacher and i'll stay home with japie and evan. daddy can go to work, and i'll be the mommy" -lily, in response to learning that she would be going to preschool next year instead of this year.

"mom, if you don't get rid of that smell soon, you're going to have to buy a new car." -gracie when it took me a couple of days to clean out my car after returning from a road trip.

"mommy, they have dress-ups for you!" -lily while walking by the prom dress section at macy's.

"i said the prayer "last"-erday." -lily's replacement word for "yesterday."