Another Birthday

This year marks an even birthday for Madi, which means she got to have a party. She says there wasnt a theme to the party, but I would feel safe calling it a Minute to Win it Party. If you've never seen the show "Minute to Win it", its a game show where contestants get one minute to complete random challenges increasing in difficulty. Heres a link to the list of games they do if you want to watch the video instructions. It explains them a lot better than I do. http://au.tv.yahoo.com/minute-to-win-it/games/

Madi chose about 5 of the games off their website to play. But Im getting ahead of myself. First of all, the decorations. I was busy preparing all day while they were at school. This is what she came home to...

And the paper mache disco ball we worked together to create. If were were mechanical, we would have figured out a way to actually make it spin. It was fun to make though.

When the guests arrived, we had this little craft for them to do. Its a jean pocket that they decorated and attached magnets to the back of to hang up in their new locker at school.

Here is Madi's finished product.

Then the games began. First was one called Candy Elevator. They had to pull two strings with pencils attached to them, over their ears up to their mouth and eat the candy off of them. It was pretty hard.

Side note: Its really sad when Madi's friends start getting as tall as I am! No fair!

Then we did one called Dizzy Mummy, where you have to spin around with a roll of toilet paper until it is all unrolled around you like a mummy. This was just fun.

After the 12 rolls of toilet paper are unrolled, what else would you think to do with it besides bury your friend in it?

This was one I got from our friend. They have a shoe box filled with marshmallows tied around their waist and they have to shake their booty to get all the marshmallows to fall out.

This one is Face the Cookie. They have to put an oreo on their forehead and use nothing but facial movements to get it down into their mouth. This was hard too, but fun! There is a video of it at the end, so as always, mute the music before playing it. Here it just looks like a weird type of meditation with a cookie on your head, so you have to watch it to get the idea. Although, if I was going to meditate, I would love to do it with a cookie.

This is the best part...watching everyone make weird faces and stick out their tongue to try to move the cookie!

There were a couple more games, like a puzzle one (breakfast scramble), and a soda can stacking one as well...cant remember the name, upside down something or other. The girls were all very loud and hyper during the games, so I think that means they were having fun, right?

Then we moved on to the presents. Here is a picture frame from Katelin and Brylee.

Then some matching peace mirrors for her wall from Alissa and Zack.

I think this was Madi's favorite...a giant ice cream sandwich pillow from her friend. After opening it, she said "Im gonna drool a whole lot in my sleep tonight!"

I guess when you get to a certain age, your friends just start buying you gift cards. She got like 75 dollars in gift cards after that, along with some mani/pedi stuff, a game, and a spinning art thingy.

I was pretty frustrated with the cake this year. I went all home made instead of buying the boxed stuff, and it turned out being so moist, and it stuck to the pan, so it just fell apart. It still tasted delish, but didnt look very pretty. Anyway, its a family favorite: Chocolate Reses Peanut Butter Cup cake.

Did I forget to mention that it was a slumber party? Well, maybe its because Im still exhausted! Some of the girls went home, but the 6 that stayed were up chatting and giggling until 1:30 in the morning! I had no idea the kind of boy talk that started this early.

Later the next night after everyone had a chance to wake up, we presented Madi with a new set of scriptures. After all, she is in Young Womens now.

A few days prior, she also got her own cell phone for babysitting for us so much (we have been taking full advantage of our new found independance). That about made us the best parents ever. But she is always willing to stay and watch the kids for us. She has also babysat for other people a couple times and she loves that (I think she loves earning her own money along with it!). We are thankful she is so responsible and trustworthy, and just an all around great kid! I can still say kid right? At least until she turns into a TEEN next year!

Heres the face the Cookie Vid: