Once again it was time to plan the friends party for Katelynn. We usually have it our house and invite some friends and neighbors over. This year we didn't want to spend the bundle of getting another bouncy castle and wanted to keep it simple. After racking my brain on what we could do that the kids would enjoy outside I finally came up with the idea of a bubble machine - who doesn't like bubbles?! Katelynn also decided that her theme this year was going to be My Little Pony's. I was running short on time, which seems to be a constant the past year, so I jumped on the internet and ordered a party pack for My Little Pony's and because I was short on time I paid the extra for the rush order. I know, I know, I could have ran to the stores and looked, but the price was decent enough and I just didn't have it in me to search and decide on each little piece to buy for the party. I did go on the hunt for a Bubble Machine. I had looked at the prices of renting them and figured it would be something fun to have at the house so if I was going to pay that much to rent one why not buy it. This turned into a rat race of running from store to store and the places I thought would have one didn't and the places that should have had them were out. I finally had to call a rental place and rent a machine and then ended up buying the expensive jug of bubbles from them to go with it. Funny that it is not easy to find bubbles in September and we were out of our summer supply. I brought the bubble machine home on a Friday and we hooked it up and let the kids check it out in the front yard. After about 5 minutes we had about 8 kids on our driveway all running through bubbles for the night. At least I knew that I was right and the bubble machine was a hit.
Saturday morning Katelynn and I ran to Sam's club to get some snacks, drinks, and a birthday cake for the party. We also had to stop and buy a helium tank to blow up balloons. We definitely were cutting it short on time as we got home and started decorating. Thanks to Sarah and Ryan for coming early and helping us out with the decorations so I could get ready!
The party goers started to arrive and we turned on the Bubble Machine, but no sooner did I turn it on that it started to get windy and started sprinkler outside. You have got to be kidding me?! I hauled everyone inside and downstairs and turned on the Wii and the kids played to Wii Dance for awhile. The sprinkles and rain finally quit and we turned on the bubbles full blast and it turned out to be a nice afternoon. We did cake and ice cream and opened presents. All in all it was a good party and Katelynn enjoyed it. Our neighbors stayed for supper and we grilled and ran the rest of the bubbles through the machine. I actually enjoyed the bubbles all over the backyard and decided that Dan needs to build me one of these machines, it was rather relaxing watching them. I will say as fun as bubbles are, it is not easy to get a fantastic picture with the amount of bubbles that were coming out of the machine, but we did our best. And apparently I left the wrong setting on my camera when we went inside to take pictures of the cake so the color is a little off. And now the countdown to next year for Katelynn has already begun.
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