All the kids had a great time and there was not one kid that played up, was naughty, didn't do what they were told. They were all so very good, it was honestly a pleasure to have them for a few hours. Some of the kids were drop offs and pick ups and others had their mums stay for the while time. It was the easiest birthday party I have ever hosted! [note to self....hold all birthday parties out of the house!!]
Tom's birthday is not until Wednesday, so I will hold off on all the mushy stuff until then (!), but here are some pics of the party that you might like to have a look at.
This was the FIRST year that Tom did not want a dinosaur cake. OMG!! I had no idea what else. Fortunately he wanted a dragon birthday, so that is not so far removed from dinosaurs!!! I created a "How to Train Your Dragon" cake which proved very popular with the kids!
Here are the kids at the bowling alley. Our good friends Mooka and Alfie have a son the same age as Tom, so they came along to the whole show. We roped them in to help us at the bowling. So we had Mark, Mooka, Alfie and myself each on a lane and each of us had 4 kids (well...I had 3!). This worked really well and we were able to keep the turns moving. We were finished bowling (10 frames each) with 15 kids in the hour! Not bad.
The pizza place was popular as it has a indoor playground. Judging by the way the kids ran screaming into the place, I guess that most had been there before!
Tom and Kyle (Mooka & Alfie's son). Look at how old Tom looks! Oh, and that's me in the red jacket behind the boys stuffing my face!!
The birthday boxes we gave out, courtesy of my Stampin' Up! business!!!! I will load the invite up in the next day or so - I gave them out before I took a photo and the one I kept for us is in pieces on my desk.
