Brianna turned eight years old on Saturday, February 2nd!!! We had her birthday party on her actual birthday this year!!! We always do a little "family" one with just the four of us where we go out for supper wherever the birthday person chooses and then we also give the gifts from us. This year we went out on Friday night since Saturday was busy with the party with friends and family. Brianna chose to go eat at Wendy's (yes, she could eat there any day, but I guess she is still too young to figure out to ask to go to the more expensive places!!) and we gave her our gifts. She got a Baby Alive doll and a real purple guitar. She really loves the guitar, as she was playing it all night long!! And of course, we had to feed Baby Alive (now named Ariel) and make her pee!!!
On Saturday, I made Brianna's cake (she had a Hannah Montana themed party, so that is a guitar on her cake in the picture!) in the morning and then we had to pack because we were having a pool party at the Marina Inn in South Sioux City!!! She had a basketball game in the early afternoon, then after that it was all about the party!! We checked into the hotel and got a room because this was cheaper than booking the pool for the party. We had a blast!!! Brianna invited 12 girls and every one of them was able to make it!! Including cousins, etc. there were fifteen small children there!!! The kids swam around, ate pizza and cake, we opened presents, then they got back in the pool and swam until the parents arrived. We played some pool games and had a good time!! The three hours we slated for the party went by really fast!! Some of the parents even had trouble getting their kids out of the pool to leave!!! Two girls stayed after the party and spent the night in the hotel room with us, along with Grandma Joan!!! We let the kids swim for another couple hours before we finally had them get out... their eyes were really red and their fingers and toes were more wrinkled than raisins!! We went back to the room and the girls put their pajamas on while we made popcorn and put a movie in. I thought they would all fall asleep right away, thinking the swimmin wore them out. Well, my two kids were asleep shortly, but the other two girls stayed up for a while... one even made it to the end of the movie before she decided to go to sleep!!! They were really good, though!
The next morning, the girls got up around 8am, and we just watched TV and started packing up to check out and take everyone home. We left the hotel about 10am so Grandma could get back to Laurens because the weather forecast wasn't looking very good for later in the day, so she wanted to be off the road and home before then. All in all, I would have to say that this was one of the easiest and best parties we have done!!!
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