Partaaay Overload!!!!

You know it's shameful of me that I have not honored
the ONE person who cares about my blog and it's content.

My excuses are busy-ness and the blogging blahs.

But here, finally is the birthday girls Fall Festival Birthday Bash!
There are SO many things I love about Samantha,
but one of my favorites is that she is NOT predictable and does
not go with the crowd. She definitely has her own ideas!

This year it occurred to her that her November birthday
was in the fall, so obviously, it should have a fall theme :)

Lets start with the party favor...a cornucopia of sorts!
Waffle cone filled with candy. The tag reads
"I am so thankful you could celebrate my birthday with me"

The girls also got a fall flower clip for their hair when they arrived.


Next is a birthday banner I made from House of 3

As per my habits I decided to make this at the last minute
and used up valuable time....but I think it was worth it!
I love it...and more importantly so did the birthday girl.



Here is our traditional birthday chandelier over the dining table

She wanted carrot cake, so I made a simple 2 layer cake with

leaves decorating one side.

For our time consuming craft we made hand print trees.

I had the kids put their hand print on an 8x10 blank canvas.

A lovely friend of mine cut leaves and owls from her cricut

out of fallish papers. The kids went to town filling their trees.

Some got VERY creative with the whole idea :)

I went back and mod podged over them while they were

otherwise occupied.

The final results. They turned out really cute. That's Jack

there hiding behind the naked hand print. I can only do

so much with a bunch of kids running around. I promised

to help him with his later...and ya know...later has NOT come yet!?!

We played some outdoor games.

A pumpkin rolling contest, which was really fun.

Bobbing for apples. I have to admit, they got

a little carried away with this one.

I was running in and out trying to modpodge

the hand prints and a few of the kids decided

to dunk their ENTIRE heads in the water.

I'm so sure the parents loved me for that!

But they had loads of fun.

We also played the donut game where you have to eat it off the string with no hands,

but I didn't get any pictures of that...i was holding the bar of donuts for gosh sake.

It was a really fun party...and as any good party goes,

I WAS SO GLAD WHEN IT WAS OVER!

I love throwing parties for my kids, but they are exhausting.

For some reason I always end up running them solo...go figure.

Ok...now I can officially move onto Christmas posts.

Oh wait...i forgot about Thanksgiving :)