Party Time!

Yesterday we had a fun family party at my parent's house to celebrate Easter, my dad's birthday and my dad's retirement of 39 years with the police department. He is retiring at the end of May and he wanted a party with all the kids and grandkids. We met at their house in the early afternoon. We brought the kids in their swim suits and told them they might get to go in the sprinkler or do water balloons or something. The truth though was that my parents had rented an inflatable waterslide and a bouce house. When the kids went outside, they were surprised! Libby had accidentally seen it from the street when we pulled in, but I told her not to tell anyone. So the kids played on those for most of the entire party! They had a little inflatable pool that Luke, Hattie and Ruby had a blast in, too.















For dinner, we had pizza and wings. Yum! After dinner we went inside for the traditional fish pond. The kids got a bag of candy, a chocolate bunny and a new beach towel.



Then we went back outside for the Easter egg hunt. Once Ruby figured out what to do, she loved that part.





The kids went back to playing while I made cotton candy. What a fun mess that was as strands of cotton candy were flying around and getting all over us! The best part was when we first plugged in the machine and it tripped the breaker to the inflatables. Quick! It's going to crush the kids! Happy to report, no children were lost.







The rest of the night was filled with more playing and snacking on dessert! What a fun time everyone had.