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1/25/15 We put on a big birthday party for Luke. The idea formed in the last few weeks. In asking Luke what he would like to do for his birthday, he decided on a family birthday party at Hidden Acres. He is not big on swimming and I did not want the responsibility of watching little kids in the pool, so we decided not to use the pool and make sure everyone knew that on the invitation. Luke picked out camouflage army for his theme. Later, the idea occurred to have a nerf gun party.The ideas were endless once I got on pinterest and a fun party was in the making. I mentioned the idea to my mom and she went right to work with decorations and targets. We also came up with fun themed snack ideas. We created some targets and and made a cute invitation. The party was set and I invited family and quite a few friends. The party was at 4:00 and I thought we had the center rented as long as we needed. It put quite a cramp in my night when I realized the whole party had to be over at 6:00. Mom & Dad beat us to Hidden Acres and helped with the set up. It was pretty wild from then on. I was frazzled most of the night trying to stay ahead of the game. The kids played in the gym shooting targets and having fun for a long time.
 
At 5:30 we did some quick gift opening. I asked those that were not family to not bring a gift. I did this for a couple reasons. One, I never want friends to feel like it is a burden to have to buy a gift for a party. Two, Luke gets way too many gifts. We just had Christmas! After the gifts, we sang happy birthday and Luke blew out his candles. Then everyone went through the food line. Everyone we invited made it to the party except one family. I think everyone had a really nice time. I was very disappointed that we had to be out so fast and I never got to sit down or talk to people much. It was all kind of a blurr for me.

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