Since we had so much planned around Evie's birthday, we agreed upon a pre-birthday party - almost a week before her actual birthday. She invited 4 friends over for a pajama, pizza and wii party.
We laid out butcher paper for table cloth and invited the attendees to decorate it for the birthday girl. Daddy and the boys joined us for the first little while, helping color, playing a few games and getting dinner, then Daddy took the boys to bed and himself to the basement to avoid the excessive girly time.
We had two pizzas - Aaron didn't think 8 kids could polish them off, but he barely got his three slices! The girls would have eaten more but for all the pineapple. MY kids will eat pizza with only pineapple on it forever, but evidently the other girls would all have been fine with plain pepperoni - and my other pizza was pepperoni-pineapple. It was, nonetheless, a successful dinner.
After dinner, the girls got to decorate cupcakes. Those six girls ate all dozen cupcakes - plus all the frosting and sprinkles they could fit on them.
Silly girls making silly faces!
Evie got a candle in her cupcake and we sang "Happy Birthday" before she made a wish and blew it out.
The girls took turns playing Mario Kart and really seemed to have fun!
I didn't take pictures of pedicures because I was the one painting all the girls' piggies, but they all loved to get their toes pretty. After that, we played a couple rounds of Twister. Things escalated when the girls started using the Twister mat as a parachute, until I remembered our own parachute in the playroom.
The parachute got used a couple times to hide under, then they took turns sitting on top of it while the others lifted and tossed them around. It might not be what it was intended for, but they all seemed to really love this activity!
Evie opened a bunch of awesome presents. From Mom and Dad she got pierced earrings - and the ability to choose when to get her ears pierced. She set the date for the next week and we have pictures of that, too!
She got a Frozen story book, a notebook and pen, some bling jewelry with the letter E, glitzy sunglasses in a case, glow-in-the-dark friendship bracelet kit, and a spare Rainbow Loom kit - she has been so excited to learn what rainbow loom things she can make with two looms!
It was super fun to dress in pjs and have a fairly relaxed birthday party. Evie loved everything she did and was so happy to have some friends over to celebrate with her!
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