Mary's 8 year birthday party

When the girls were little (or at least littler than they are now) I established that they could have birthday parties where they invite friends over when they were 8 and 16. (We still do cake and ice cream for family every birthday.) This idea seems to have been taken without complaint. Frame of reference can be a wonderful thing.

Mary is turning 8 soon, and had a party on Saturday. It's taken me this long to recover to post pictures. She invited 16 friends, we only gave a few days notice, and figured a few wouldn't be able to come. No dice, they all showed. 16 kids, plus our 6, made for a crazy pile of kids.

Tara had all kinds of activities for them lined up, pumpkin decorating, haunted house crafts, that sort of thing. My job - running to the store for more pumpkins, making home-made root beer, and buying 7 pizzas.

Anyhow, I think we did ok, Mary indicated that the party was better than she expected. Some pictures: