Slumber Party Fun

So we had Taylor's 8th Birthday Party. It was a slumber party and boy was it full of fun! I tired to keep them busy so chaos wouldn't erupt with 11 little girls. The girls starred arriving Saturday evening at 5pm. Jeremy ended up working later then he had hoped so I had to take care of Diesel too. But, I did have my saving grace. Shonna my friend came over and helped as well. It was nice she and I had our own sleep over! It was hectic but fun. I remember for my 8th birthday I had a sleep over too. I am still friends with 2 of the girls that were there. I tired to do some of the things we did at my party.

Once the girls were all here I took a picture with each girl and Taylor then we took a group shot. The pictures were for later in the evening.

The 1st thing we did was play the mummy game. I divided the girls into groups. I gave them 2 rolls of toilet paper and they had to warp someone up as a mummy. Here is Rylee's group. Can you guess she's the mummy!

Here is Taylor's group. 1st Taylor was the mummy then half way though they switched and had her best friend Sydney be the mummy. They had lots of fun!

Shortly after the mummy game it was dinner time. Pizza was Taylor's choice. They all enjoyed it. But I will say 8 larges for 11 girls 3 adults and 2 2year olds is way too much!!! I am never good at estimating when it comes to pizza. we still have 1 whole large left and have been eating it everyday.

After dinner we split the girls up again and had 2 activities going. One was

pillow case painting. It was a spin off of something I remember doing with my mom. Instead of painting t-shirts like I used to do we made pillow cases. This is where the pictures came into play. I uploaded the pictures and printed them onto transfer paper then ironed them onto the pillowcases. The girls got to decorate around the picture of themselves and Taylor. Taylor had the one with the whole group. I let Rylee's Best buddy come over so Rylee wouldn't be left out and so Rylee's and her buddies was of them two.

The other activity they traded off doing was finger nail painting. It was a spin the bottle game. The girls would take turns spinning the nail polish bottle and who ever it landed on they had to paint 1 nail that color. Then we traded off colors. Some of the girls just wanted all one color so Shonna helped with that.

Once the pillow cases were all done it was Ice Cream time. The Ice Cream was so hard it took a few minutes to thaw. So the girls played freeze dance. Our cable carrier has a Kids Only song channel with pop songs that kids like. We had that one and they took turns yelling freeze.

Here are some of the finished pillow cases. I think they turned out great!

Once the Ice Cream thawed it was time for our Ice Cream Sunday bar. We had Vanilla ice cream and the girls got to put what ever they wanted on their ice cream.

I had tired putting 8 candles on Taylor's creation but there wasn't enough room so she just got and 8. I think it was a GREAT idea!

We are just about to sing Happy Birthday to her. Here is Taylor with her Best Buddy Sydney.

Once the Ice Cream was all done they all made their beds in the living room. Taylor had picked out 2 movies for them to watch. Horton Hears a Who and Narnia Prince Caspian. Diesel was so cute he kept walking around laying in the beds with the girls. Maddie Shonna's daughter made her one little bed and wanted to be like the big girls.

After watching 2 movies I finally said lights out and turned everything off. It was 12:30am and I didn't hear anything after that. It think by this time they were all pretty tired. Only 5 of them were still up at 12:30. 1 little girl went home at 9 (she wasn't allowed to sleep over) and 1 little girl wanted to call home at 10:30 so she could go home.

I think the girls were up at 7am but didn't get me until 8am. I made them breakfast while they played some of Taylor's new games she got for her birthday. I made an egg dish at Tay's request. It looks scary but tasted yummy. Most them picked out for awhile while Taylor told them to just eat it and that it was good. The one's who finally did eat it said it was really good. Others left hungry I am sure! lol... The all got picked up at 10am and I had everything cleaned up and taken down shortly there after. I took a nice long nap Sunday afternoon.

In all it turned out good and I know Taylor had lots of fun!

Shonna again THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU ! You are the BEST! I LOVE YOU!!