Party in the Park

When we first moved here last Spring

and I found this park,

I thought it would be the perfect place

for a birthday party.

I remember saying, "It's too bad

that we can't count on the weather in

April because I'd love to have

Bren's birthday party here next year."

Well, here we are a year later,

and I'm so glad we took the chance

and booked this room for Bren's party.

We gambled with the weather,

and it turned out to be in our favor.

We couldn't have asked for a better day!

We invited Bren's entire class of 22

and a few friends outside of school.

18 Kindergarteners plus parents and

a few siblings came out to help us celebrate!

Everyone had such a great time!

The kids enjoyed playing on the playground

equipment the most.

It was hard to drag them away for

my relay races.

But a little more than half of them

came over for a few relays.

They balanced plastic jungle animals on

spoons and raced each other.

Most of the time though,

they just ran from playground to party room.

We had Madagascar 2 playing in the party room

as well as a station set up to make

little bracelets with wild animal beads.

Of course we had to have a pinata!

Bren was the most excited about this!

After the pinata,

we went inside for pizza, cake, ice cream and

present opening.

This was Bren's first ever birthday party

where she's gotten to invite all of her friends.

Every year since she was three years old,

we have moved in April.

Because of that, she associates birthdays with moving.

When some of her friends had birthdays earlier this year,

she was very concerned that they were moving.

She also asked me several times if

we were moving since it was her birthday.

Bren will get to have two more birthdays

here in Washington before we move again.

I'm so glad she was able to experience her own

full blown birthday party!

We also had our own little family celebration

on her actual birthday day.

I got a few cute shots from that,

so I thought I'd share them too.

Thanks to everyone who has

watched her grow along with us over the life of my blog.

Your sweet comments about her over the

past two years have brought us alot of joy.

I have the best blog readers ever!!