Birthday Party No. 9

Brianna's birthday fell on a Monday this year, and since the weekend before her birthday was Super Bowl weekend, we decided to have her celebrate and have her party on the weekend after. She invited seven friends from school and wanted to go out for pizza and go ice skating! We invited my mom and my sister, Jenny, and her whole family to go along with us! When we got to Pizza Hut we had quite a large group and ended up with about half the restaurant taken up by us!! We enjoyed pizza and cake and opened presents while we were there! By the time the presents were opened, it was time to go to the ice rink for skating.

Of the ten children we had in our group, only one was a good ice skater -- she plays hockey for the Junior Musketeers team here in Sioux City! Four of them had never been ice skating before and the other five have only gone once before. Amazingly, everyone did great and had a fun time! I think it is fair to say that the party was a "hit" with everyone! Parents came to pick up their children at the end of the evening and three kids came home with us to spend the night. Once we got back to our house, the girls changed into pajamas and played with the Nintendo Wii all night long! We shut everything off just after midnight and they fell asleep and slept until almost 9am the next morning! I was starting to think I was going to have to wake them up because their parents were coming to get them at 10am!! Now Brianna's birthday is officially over until next year... I will probably need that long to "recuperate"!! Ha!Ha!