McKinly turned 11 last Thursday and for some reason, I agreed to have her party here. She wanted to do a Mall Scavenger Hunt and then have some friends spend the night. I didn't realize that some meant 13!
Despite the fact that 14 girls spent the night at my house, they had a great time and the party was a lot of fun.
It started off by everyone meeting over here so we could eat pizza and form our scavenger hunt teams. Cathy, Jen, my niece Ashley, and I were in charge of all the girls. Cathy, Jen, and Ashley each took a team while I was supposed to be waiting in the food court for the teams to make it back. Each team had a list of items that they had to find and take pictures. Most of the pictures had to include a team member.
Some examples were...
Team member wearing white sunglasses
Team member modeling pink shoes
Team member with a candy bar wrapper
Team member kissing a mannequin on the cheek...
although I later learned I didn't specify which cheek!
We found out a lot of mannequins don't have heads these days so this is what one team came up with!!
There were a lot of other clues they had to find and take pictures of and there were also a few items they had to bring back.
After the hunt, the girls all wanted to get their pictures taken at a little photo booth in the mall.
When we got back to the house we had cake...
McKinly loves monkeys right now so her mom got her the coolest monkey cake
She opened presents...
Made homemade Root Beer floats with her Dad...
Played around (mostly with the little boys' toys) and then finally settled down to watch a movie...
They were very quiet all night long and we didn't even notice that half of them never went to sleep. I did notice that they all were awake by 6:15 this morning!
It really wasn't bad at all but it is definitely a once a year type thing.
Trust me, a birthday/slumber party with 14 girls is a lot easier than dealing with two really sick boys. The clean up is much nicer as well. This bug that Cody and Cole now have is lasting a lot longer than one night! More on that later...
8 comments:
Looks like bunches of fun. Loved the cake!
Oh wow! You are one brave step-mommy! I can't believe our McKinly is 11...
Leave it to Dortch to make the root beer from scratch!
What a great party idea!! My girls will love that some day!!!
I forgot to ask...how do you make root beer floats from scratch? That too, sounds like lots of fun!
Your an awesome mom!
Looks like it was a ton of fun - Yea for a Happy 11th Birthday!
What a nice Mommy you are! Looks like they all had a lot of fun! Sorry the boys aren't feeling well.
Wow....step-mom of the year! Seriously, you need to take it down a notch, you make the rest of us look like slackers!
Looks like the girls had a blast!!
It looks like they had so much fun! Although tell TJ that Kyle is disappointed that he wasn't using Diet Root Beer :) Hugs to all of you!
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