Pumpkin's Birthday Bash

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We originally meant to hold Pumpkin's birthday party on his birthday, but preparing for Giggles' baptism took more time than I'd figured on so we had to postpone the party. Even so, we rushed around madly to pull it off in time.

I found a very good price on a bounce castle for Pumpkin's party but completely forgot to order a cake so my dad had to run to the bakery bright & early on the day of the party to place the order for me. Whoops! The night before the party, we left QT playing with his cousins, dropped Giggles off with Grandma Toni for some one-on-one Grandma time, and we took a much needed break by going out to...you guessed it, Salsa's. Oh well.

On party day, with cake crisis averted, the Mans headed to Sam's to pick up food & drinks for the party, I ran to Target and the party store for the last few items I still needed, and QT & his mom stayed home with Giggles. Meanwhile, next door, the *girls* and Pumpkin got started with the decorations...in between playing on the bounce house of course.

The party was a blast! Our theme was Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones. Our pinata was a huge, multicolored dinosaur straight out of the book, and for dinner, we enjoyed dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets! We had various activities for the kids including a fossil dig in my mom's backyard. Mom wasn't too happy about that, haha.

We kinda forgot that time moves differently back home. We started the party at 3:30, but we had guests arriving up until 6 or so. It's just the way things are done back home. No biggie. The party was still fun. We just didn't get to take many pictures of the late arrivals. Also, for you Coloradoans reading this blog, this should really help explain a lot about me (us). :)