Madison's 8th Birthday party

Story of our Indoor/Outdoor Party

Well it started out looking like it was going to be a nice day, weather wise and continued to look like the rain was going to pass over us. So we began the party outside as planned at 2:00 in the afternoon with hot dogs on the grill. Then the kids were ready to do their first activity. We could hear thunder in the distance, but it was sunny so we stayed hopeful it would pass by.

The thunder started getting closer so we decided to go ahead and gather around the cupcakes and sing Happy Birthday. We started serving cupcakes & ice cream to all the kids and right in the middle of them eating it started to sprinkle. It was a little sun shower  just as sunny as can be. All the adults frantically took all the presents and the rest of the cupcakes inside so they wouldn't get wet. The kids finished their cupcakes in the rain...then it started to rain harder so we all bolted indoors to do the presents inside.

After all the drama of the rain was over and presents were opened it stopped raining. Everyone...even the cupcakes went back outside so the kids could have another cupcake.  As  they were eating, it started to rain again...so we all ran to the front porch, just as we got there it stopped raining and the sun popped back out and it was almost like it never rained at all....How CRAZY was that!

We dried off all the tables & chairs outside so we could set up for the girls to decorate their foam crowns. While the girls were doing that the boys played outside looking for caterpillars.  By this time  it was after 5:00 and was getting late, some of the girls had left. Then it was back inside for the night to start the sleep over. We painted fingernails, watched movies, popped popcorn and stayed up late!! What an eventful day we had, it sure was a birthday to remember :)