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CASH & VANNA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Both the kids wanted birthday parties this year and since we hadn't done one with friends for a couple years, I decided to grant their wish :).  Although, since their birthdays are somewhat close together, they wanted to invite all the same friends, and because I only had the energy to do one party - we combined them.  Vanna's birthday is in April, Cash's in June, so we threw a party smack in the middle, in May.  It was a carnival theme so we decorated as such (which I forgot to get a picture of darn it - it really did turn out pretty cute), played a couple carnival-type games (bean bag toss and potato sack races, pinata, etc.) and had carnival food (hot dogs, chips, pop, popcorn and cupcakes for dessert). 

The kids' race.

And the big kids' race :).

Cash was first at bat for the pinata and broke it open.  He is a slugger but gosh we were hoping the pinata would last longer than that.  We actually ended up duct taping it back together (not al the candy had fallen out yet) for everyone else to have a turn at the fun.

Candy!

So many of our good friends were able to attend and we just had such a great time playing and visiting with them! The kids were so wound up that night, going through their gifts and treats over and over again and talking about it all so excitedly to one another - they had a hard time finally falling asleep and slept with much of their new treasures :).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDS!!!