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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.
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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