Thursday, July 21, 2011

Laynie's Carnival Birthday

Laynie, our little crazy nut, turned one on July seventh. I thought it would be super fun to plan an outdoor party since everyone else in our family is in the winter. All in all it turned out pretty cute, but I just wish I had planned better for the actual decorating time. Oh, and if I could have made the wind go away that would have been awesome too. We almost moved inside the church across the street because of the pesky wind but I decided everyone would look much better for the pictures with wind blowing through their hair. It was also worth it for seeing plates of food catching a gust and smacking other people in the face...OK that only happened once but it was really good (I know-I'm messed up).

We had the best face painter ever! She even came early and helped me throw together some of the food and decorations....along with some of the guests (thanks again! Hey do you guys want to come over for dinner so you can cook it all while I run around and do nothing?!). At some point I threw away the idea of things being aesthetically pleasing and starting duct taping everything including a broken ketchup bottle to a stack of napkins to the table. (There goes that $1 table cloth I had planned on re-using when you all come over to make me dinner at my house.) So if you see a lot of ghetto taping jobs in the pictures it was out of necessity and just pretend it's not there.

The first thing we did was play the games. I didn't get pictures of the games, so I'll tell you about it. 'Knock Em Down' was the classic milk can game where........you guessed it..... you knocked them down with a ball. 'Spray Away' is a game with four golf tees (sitting in a drilled out piece of wood) that held four ping pong balls and you had to knock the ping pong balls off with a squirt gun. We also had 'Balloon Darts' and 'Bean Bag Toss' So basically we were trying to see which kid we were going to hang out by when the world ends in October (sorry Brynn, you didn't make the cut this time). After games we ate a little food and ton of junk. We had to squeeze it all on one table so things could hold others things to discourage all things from blowing away. The term, "Strength in numbers" could apply to food tables in a wind storm. You could also use it if you're in need of protection by kids with bean bags and darts. As you can see, it's a really versatile term. The last game was a watermelon eating contest and can I just brag about my husband for a minute please? He owned every single one of them! I'm a proud wife-nothing wrong with that.

After food Laynie smashed her cake and even took a little break in the middle and rested her head on it. Or maybe she loved the cake so much she was trying to give it a hug (I'm with you honey). Either way it was so adorable!!

Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to come! There is honestly no one else we'd rather run around in the wind with and pick up napkins and plates and silverware and taffy and signs and letters that go on signs, then you. It meant so much. :

7 people said...:

Tahnie said...

Bowling ball on Brynners forearm...best body paint ever!

Cheri said...

What a cute party! We had such a great time! Wind and all!!!

Susan said...

The pictures are so adorable! It brought back the good times. It was great fun and it looked fantabulous.

Sycamore Girl said...

Awesome comment before mine. Don't you think?

I don't know why I am just now revisiting your blog...I also don't remember why it was that we didn't make it to Layne's Carnival. But it must have been something really important- because I was excited when we got the invite. You always through great parties!

Well, we look forward to Brynner's party this year...no pressure!
And luckily no wind. :)

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