our first movie night here in georgia was a blast!  we had wrapped lights around the porch and bushes along the house, hung my fav brown coffee filter flowers, hung wire wrapped mason jars with fake votives around the yard, and the girls helped with cute vintage signs to help people find their way to where they needed to go!   we had mindy gledhill playing in the background…which set the mood!  we hid four golden tickets, in which the winners won one of the jars of m&m’s to take home…you didn’t think i would keep all those around, did you?!?

i also went to our neighbors garage sale, and bought the old suitcase and green vintage vase you see on the table…thank goodness for cool vintage items that are cheap!

we estimate there were around 70 people, and it was a total blast.  Thanks to everyone for coming and having fun with us!

so we rotate every other year for birthdays, one year is a family party, the next year is a friend party.  so here it was…the friend party.  we tried to get to the zoo…didn’t make it…went to the playground and played…then they watched a movie, ate food, opened presents, and then we stamped into chipboard their names and punched a hole, and made necklaces for the girls…

oh…forgot to mention…that we had everyone rush their children to our house after school to get to the zoo to have an hour before they closed, and traffic was horrific as it was rush hour, we turned around only a mile from the zoo after being in the car for almost an hour.  we turn around, i get lost and hang up on jarom because i blame him, then he calls and says one girl in his car is about to throw up, the other one is going to wet her pants, we were stuck in traffic, and one could only hope things would get better after that!  we decided to take the girls(we have a total of nine girls with our own kids) to the awesome new playground near our house and let them get energy out before we head to our house for the rest of the festivities.  

so, we made it through another party…thank goodness!