Party Time (a bit late)

Madison decided she wanted a slumber party for her birthday this year, so a week after re-couping from a dozen screaming hyper girls, I am finally up to posting about it. Im happy to say we did survive our first slumber party experience.

But lets back up a bit. Her actual birthday was on 09/09/09, the only other time it was on that cool of a day, was when she was born...9/9/99, and it wont be that way again until she is 100 years old, so it was a day worth celebrating for sure. After taking a violin class this summer, Madi decided she would like to continue with the violin, and join the school orchestra. So what better occasion to get her her own violin, than her birthday? Ryan had this brilliant plan to just give her the music stand and make her think that was all there was going to be, since we told her that her party consisted of her present. She really wasnt expecting anything at all, so she was thrilled to have something to place her music book on. Then, as she was distracted, we pulled out the other present. She was very excited to open it to find a violin she could call her own.

"Yea! A music stand!" "Wow! My own violin!"

After the fun of surprising her on her birthday, it was time to get down to business and plan for the party. We (meaning I), made these mini pillow cases to hold the invites. Then Madi hand delivered them.
Then the day of the party arrived. To follow the slumber party theme, Madi picked a brownie pizza for her cake. But we also made her favorite cupcakes with Reses cups on top. Both were so yummy!
As the guests arrived, they made fuzzy flip flops for slippers.
Then they all got their own pillow case to decorate and sign with everyones autograph.

Time to blow out candles.

Ryan doing the ol' Discovery Zone party trick. (We both used to work there as party hosts). Whenever they wanted a drink, they had to put their cups on their head and wait for him to refill it. They kept him pretty busy, since the cups were pretty small. They all enjoyed watching him walk around in circles, so they drank fast.

Whats a slumber party without nail painting? Next, they each got a pedicure kit, and painted away.

The beautiful finished toes in their new flip flops.

Last, Madison opened presents, and then it was movie and popcorn time. We gave the girls the option to be picked up late, or choose to stay over. 3 friends got to stay overnight, so of course they then put on an additional movie.

When morning came, we had a breakfast of pancakes, bacon and eggs. Then 15 hours later, it was time for the fun to end. Im sensing this is just the beginning of many more slumber parties to come.

As a side note, 3 days later after Madisons first orchestra rehearsal I got a call from her orchestra teacher. She stated bluntly that Madisons new beautiful violin had major defects in it (it was drilled wrong among many other concerns) and that it was basically unusable. So now we have to purchase or rent another violin in order for her to continue orchestra. Too bad we already returned to rental we had from summer classes. Hows that for a nice surprise?