Ally's Friend Party

This year Ally turns 8!  Wow!  How fast it has gone!!  Last year I made an executive decision that Andrew and Ally will take turns having friend birthday parties each year.  On the year they don't have a party, they get a night out with Mom and Dad, unless on a year they get a party they want to go out with us, we always trump parties.  Since Ally and I went out last year, she got a friend party this year.  When we sat down to write the invite list wasn't too bad.  I figured I could handle 5-6 eight year old girls for a couple hours.  Then she started adding people she forgot and the list got longer and longer.  Like 14 girls long!!!  What?  Really?  How am I going to keep those girls entertained enough that they aren't running around my house screaming and yelling?  To Pinterest I went.  There is this super cute 'fairies in a jar' project that Ally and I both loved and the instructions were pretty basic.  Perfect!!  Now I just had to come up with a few more ideas.  She wanted a mock sleepover so the girls were coming at 9 for breakfast.  After a conversation with my neighbor who we carpool to gymnastics with I quickly realized that Ally had her party all planned, why was I stressing?  She wanted the fairy jars, nails painted, and a coloring contest.

The girls all showed up and we had a breakfast of waffles and fruit.

Then it was time for the super cute fairies in a jar.

Aren't those so cute!?!  I couldn't wait for the girls to make them.  Once we started making them I realized these things were going to be an epic fail!  The girls enjoyed them but they sure didn't turn out like the picture.

Not quite like the picture are they?  I was extremely disappointed.  Luckily the girls didn't have high expectations like I had.

After the girls did a little screaming and running thru the house we opened presents.  Ally loves to have the girls spin a bottle to see who gets to give her a gift so they formed a circle and got started.

She was spoiled rotten and loved each and every one of her gifts.

All the cute girls! (Luckily only 10 of the girls showed up ;))

And one crazy pic!

After the present fun it was time for painting nails.  Thankfully my sister Kelly was there to help me so it take an hour to paint all of their nails.

The little fashionista got a pair of sunglasses from her school friend so they had to get a pic together!

We still had a little time left before parents were coming to get the kids so they all ran out front to play with bubbles and get some of their energy out.

It was such a great party (even with the darn fairy jars).  Ally loved each and every minute of it.  She is so blessed to have such fantastic friends who are so kind and loving and great examples for her!