Emma's Birthday Party!!!

This year Emma wanted to have a birthday party and was very good. Last year was the first and only time I have not let a child have a birthday party but Emma had not been on her best behavior and had been warned that if she didn't improve there would be no party. She didn't get one. So this year she was extra good!!! She wanted to invite all the girls in her class. I counted them out and there are 18 girls including Emma. Wow!! David was out of town when we needed to get the invitations out so Meagan came to my rescue and helped me come up with a simple half sheet invitation. Emma delivered them to the girls and calls starting coming in. She wanted to have what we call a "Board Silly" party. It was a party that revolved around board games. She also wanted all the girls to come dressed in their pajamas. We started at 6pm and served pizza, vegies and dip, and fruit, with some punch. We had no idea that little 3rd grade girls loved cheese pizza so much. (We ordered more pepperoni than cheese.) We will know for the next time. Then we divided the girls into groups of 4 and go play one of the games. Which were: Sorry, Trouble, War, and Candyland. We played for 5 minutes and then whoever was winning got 5 points, 2nd 4 points, 3rd 3points and last 2 points. Then the girls rotated to a new game with different girls to play against until they had played all 4 games. We added the points together and found a winner. Then we had the girls each take 2 pieces of paper and write some intructions like, "go ahead 2 spaces," "go back to start," "do 30 jumping jacks," etc and we put those on the floor and the girls became the game pieces and they threw a large die to see how far they would go. The time just flew by and we didn't have time to finish that game before we had to have cake and ice cream and Emma opened her presents. I made her cake to look like the "Sorry" gameboard. Emma said it was one of the best birthday parties ever!!!!!! I am so glad she had a great time!! (Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of her playing all the games. Maybe next year I will remember.