Birthday Party with a Twist

Last night and today we celebrated my best friend's daughter Jayda's birthday party. For supper we ate burgers, hotdogs, chips and soda. Then we started a camp fire to roast marshmallows but none of the kids wanted to so instead we popped a container of Jiffy Pop popcorn in the campfire and opened a box of sugar cubes. The kids ate sugar cubes by the campfire until the popcorn was ready. Then I had the kids line up on the other side of the fire pit and I threw popcorn at them and had them try to catch it in their mouths. It was fun.

When we were done throwing popcorn at each other it was pretty dark out so we decided to play with glow sticks. I had all the kids put on white tee-shirts and pull them up to cover their faces. The adults cracked the glow sticks, poked holes in them and sprayed the contents all over the kids. It's a lot of fun. They ran all over the yard and jumped on the trampoline till almost 10pm when we sent them off to bed. (Their shirts were still glowing pretty good so we let them sleep in them.)

This morning we gave Jayda her presents. She loved them. She got a beautiful vanity mirror, 3 china dolls, a stuffed monkey and another doll.

When I had asked her a week ago what she wanted for her birthday she said she wanted to play in a pool of Roman Noodles. So guess what we did next? That's right. I cooked 24 packages of Roman Noodles and dumped them in a blow up kiddy pool. What fun. They ate some, stomped in them and rolled in them. The festivities ended with a big food fight. By the time we were done everyone had Roman Noodles all through their hair, in their shirts, smeared across their faces and squished between their toes.

Kiddy pool: free, Romen Noodles: $5.00, making a kid's birthday wish come true: priceless