Finding Joy: party (picture heavy)

Monday, September 21, 2009

party (picture heavy)

We had Maddie's birthday party yesterday. It was such a great, mellow day! We made pulled pork BBQ sandwiches and my delicious broccoli salad (if I do say so myself....and I do!), we had ribs and buffalo chicken dip and cake! Maddie got some really fantastic gifts, her favorites being bongo drums and a picnic basket tea party set! She also got lots of art supplies which I am looking forward to breaking open and creating with. It was really nice to relax and enjoy good food and conversation with family.....almost everyone was there, and I even commissioned some great record art from a friend which I am SO excited about! The kids had such a good time playing and eating (way too much) candy....both of my girls were dead asleep by 7:45 last night. Maddie and I were talking this morning about how much fun her birthday party was and she told me, "Mama, I ate a really lot of candy!" and she did! She basically picked all the candy off of her cake....she thought she was being sneaky, but we saw her repeatedly walk into the dining room and snake the candy off.....it was her party, she hardly ever gets candy, we figured why not? Even though the birthday festivities have been great fun, I'm glad that we're done. Eventually the streamers will come down (we're always slow with taking streamers down) and life will go back to normal. My mother in law did a fantastic job of cleaning up after the party so our house looks wonderful.....one less thing to recover from. Now I have to start thinking about the next big "party" Thanksgiving.....we're hosting it at our house this year! Think we could get away with keeping the streamers up until then?!?

Birthday girl