KIDS PARTY!!!!

Nov. 10th was Jonathan's kids sleepover party! The kids starting arriving at 5:30pm, and a total of 9 showed up (out of 12 invited). It was noise and chaos from the start! There were 4 girls and 7 guys and they ended up having a small little war with signage popping up all over the house warning the opposite sex about consequences for entering different rooms! Being boys, they hunted down toy swords, shields, axes, play guns, and even a cap gun to go to war! That was inteesting and resulted in one casualty...Jonathan...of course. He got his room destroyed and his fingers pinched in a door.

We did individual pizzas for dinner with garlic bread and ceasar salad. I made Jonathan's cake this year too. Not the best cake I have ever made (decoration wise) but when the candles were out, it didn't matter one bit. The kids had just as much fun sucking icing from the candles and decorations as they would have had with a $30 cake! Once the kids were done cake and ice cream, they were on a sugar high and continued destroying my home. By 9:30 the last of the kids NOT sleeping over were gone and the 4 boys staying the night settled in for a movie (Monster Mansion) and more snacks. After that, it was bedtime for them, and wind down time for Ann Marie and I.

In the morning I made chocolate chip pancakes and pemeal bacon to feed the ravenous children and by 11am, it was all over. Ann Marie took turns counting our fingers and toes and looking over each other for hidden battle wounds...we survived...