Thursday, September 4, 2008

Lynnae's Birthday Party

Lynnae celebrated her 8th birthday on July 13th. We were in California and went to Disneyland as part of her birthday present, as well as celebrated with lots of presents and cake at her Grandma and Grandpa Boyce's. Because we had already made such a big to-do about the birthday, (we won't be going to Disneyland every year,) we told her that we would scale down her friend birthday party. Lynnae invited eight friends over to eat pizza, watch a movie and share cake this past Saturday. With unfortunate timing during the Labor Day weekend, we had about a 50% turnout, but neither Lynnae nor the other girls seemed to mind!

Lynnae was so excited she was hyper all day long. I kept her occupied with chores... it worked like a charm! We didn't have a single meltdown before the party, (which is quite the feat right now,) and she was in a great mood when her friends started coming over. They were having so much fun playing with the doll house in her room that it took about an hour before they ate the pizza... (the adults were well done by then!) Then they opened presents and watched the movie - "Ariel's Beginning". Lynnae wanted a Disney princess theme for her party - she's been on a Disney kick since our trip - so everything was princesses. She had a hard time choosing between princesses and fairies at first, so we compromised and did a Tinkerbell cake. I never knew that fairies were as big a deal as the princesses... but apparently, they are!


Our good friends Angie and Jeff came up from Lake Tapps with their daughters Madison and Natalie - Natalie was there to be Charlie's friend - and we had a great time visiting with our friends too. All of the kids stayed later than planned, it wasn't until 9:30 that it was just the Boschees and us... and we ended up hanging out until it was officially Sunday. We had a great time, and Lynnae was super-happy afterwards... and seemed to be happy for the next two days too!

She has already starting talking to me about next year's party. We were going to do a luau theme this year, so now she is set and visualizing a luau for next year... sounds like fun to me!

More pictures will be posted after the adoption is finalized.

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