Birthday Party

The kids' birthday party was awesome. Really, it went off very well. We had about 50 people there. I didn't know we knew 50 people, but... apparently we do! The 10am timing of the party, although unusual, was great. a) it would seem people don't normally have plans for 10am on a saturday morning and that's why I think we had such awesome attendance. b) the bounce house we rented for the party was hot. and the weather was hot. it was very fun in the morning, but it would probably have been miserable if we'd tried bouncing in the afternoon.

Besides the bounce house we had face painting (by Danielle), bubbles, cotton candy (made by Brianne), and of course cakes (pretty smash cakes made by Danielle, ugly large cakes for adults made by me), ice cream, and food. Since I don't normally blog about all the people in the pics below I'm going to leave their names off, but it was great to have everyone attend! Besides watching my kids have a ball, one of the highlights of the party was watching everyone bounce - we had 8 month old babies in there, lots of 2-ish year olds, a couple older kids, and lots and lots of adults! in fact, after the party ended and we put the kids down for a nap, we had an adult-only bounce before deflating the bounce house. :)

also, a big thanks to dave, who took all the pictures below. they are awesome!