Because we are gluttons for punishment, we decided to have another sleepover party to celebrate Annika's 9th birthday. It was quite fortuitous that her birthday this year was on a Friday, so she could have the party on her actual birthday. Annika wanted a small party and had six friends come over, although it did not exactly feel "small" at the time. :)
The kids arrived around 6 p.m. and spent the first part running around chaotically. This included going outside to shoot off silly string cans (you can see some of the damage below) and doing the PINATA.
The cake! Annika spent a good deal of time talking with the baker at Dillion's about the colors and decorations that she wanted on her cake so that she could put all of her little plastic cat animals around it.
We had pizza for dinner...this was actually served before the cake, but I think that in many cases, cake was eaten first. ;)
The whole crew!
Opening presents from her super sweet friends! All of the kids were super excited by the blue bean bag chair below from her good friend Rachael.
The kids then watched movies until about 11:30 p.m. I managed to fall asleep in Daniel's bed somewhere in there, so Will was left to the task of making sure everyone actually got to sleep. This year everyone was down by 1:30 a.m., instead of 2:30 a.m., so we are going to call that a success!
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