Mission Accomplished

Yesterday was Aubrie's birthday party. I have been planning on doing something real special for her since it was her special "double digits' birthday. I wanted it to be her most memorable birthday party ever. Castle and Coasters is a miniature golf/ amusement park close by. I thought that would be the perfect way to celebrate. I was glad to see that they were so reasonable!!! I let Aubrie invite 10 friends. Between me and my friend, that meant being in charge of 5 ten year olds.

I had most of the girls meet at our house at 12:15, so I could drive them there. The party started in the party room at 1:00. There we had pizza, cake and opened gifts. Aubrie wanted a cheesecake for her birthday cake (a girl after my own heart). Aubrie and the adults were the only ones that ended up eating it! Everyone at home was thrilled that we had leftovers! Aubrie got a lot of good stuff, including several gifts cards to Tilly's and tonz of Justice stuff, including a cute bathing suit! Aubrie can't wait to go shopping with her gift cards!

After time in the party room, we headed out to hit some rides. In the beginning there were only a few girls brave enough to ride the bigger rides, so Aubrie decided on rides everyone wanted to do.

After about an hour, we did a round of miniature golf. At first I thought it was going to take FOREVER to get 10 girls through a round of miniature golf, but then I realized that they weren't going to play like adults. They were basically running from green to green, and picking up their balls and putting them in the holes, if they couldn't get it in after a few hits, or if the others were getting too far ahead. It took them about 40 minutes, and they all had a fun time. At one point a ball went into the water, and not surprisingly, Aubrie was the one who fetched it out!

After golf, some of the girls got more brave, and we got almost everyone on the big roller coaster. Once they all went on it and realized it wasn't that scary, that became the favorite and they become more brave to ride the other rides.

We finally headed out at 6:30. The girls had fun chatting in the car, and I dropped the last girl off at 7:45. Aubrie had a fun time going through all her gifts. She joined Ben and the kids in the hot tub in her new bathing suite, and quickly passed out watching a movie. Before she fell asleep, she said that this was her best birthday party ever. Mission Accomplished!