The Par-tay!

Téa’s party turned out great.  Her only complaint… “it didn’t last long enough”.  I can deal with that.  If that’s the only thing that went wrong, then I succeeded.  While planning this shindig Téa chose to have a soccer theme.  I was thrilled that I wouldn’t be doing frilly, girly things.  Made life easier.  She told me the two things that he party MUST have are a piñata and a treasure hunt.  Right…that required work, let me tell you. 

Four days before the party I got to work on the piñata.  I knew it would take a few days so I was proud I planned ahead.  I bought a beach ball at the dollar store, made my own paste/glue junk and got to it.  Silly me didn’t get any pictures close up of the piñata before it was destroyed.  Oh well. 

The party started with the girls hanging out side so I could hide all 12 clues.  Writing those 12 clues took some time since I had to make them rhyme (did you catch that rhyming thing…)  Each clue led them to something/someplace around the house like the dryer, oven, piano, bathtub…you get the idea.  Every other place had a prize for everyone to put in their goody bags. 

Each girl got a turn to read a clue…

I had so much fun watching the girls read the clue and then screaming where they had to head to next.  The last clue led them to the back of the van for their grand prize…

My awesome home-made piñata!  Since we lacked a place to hang the piñata Mark was great enough to volunteer to hold the ball up while the girls swung a wooden bat.  What a brave man.

Here’s Breanna just about to break it open. 

And Téa taking her turn.  By now it’s so close to coming apart. 

And then it finally opened up and the mayhem commenced. 

I did get some great pictures of my soccer ball piñata after it was destroyed.  Poor thing.

After the violence was over it was on to presents and then cake and ice cream.  My sis-in-law Leslie sent me a picture of an idea that would save me time in the cake department.  I didn’t want to spend hours decorating a cake so this is what I made…

Unfortunately I ran out of black frosting so this was the best I could do.  And it only took 30 minutes to frost.  Sweet!  Téa kept thanking me the rest of the night for the party.  She realized all the time I put in.  It made it all worth while.  Happy Birthday kid!