I wasn't planning to do a birthday party this year, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I should do something! What better way to celebrate towards the end of summer than at the pool?!?! Plus, we attended
Grayson's pool party last month and I got some great ideas that I could copy (wink, wink).
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| Boys: ready to party |
The set up (minimal):
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| Food table |
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| toys and inflatables on the tables |
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| floats! |
Let's get the party started!
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| a butterfly landed on Uncle Matt's hand! |
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| All the cousins! |
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| Our first partiers: Steph, AL and Clark |
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| MaSha with Stokes |
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| Da-da and Ryan |
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| Big Ben Gantt |
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| Annie Stepp |
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| Party People! |
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| Jackson and Amanda |
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| Stokes and Mama |
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| Steph with AL |
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| Keeping an eye on those kiddos |
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| Dads and kids |
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| Sisters! Ashley, Tara and me |
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| Eating lunch with the big kids |
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| Table full of cuties |
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| Cousin table |
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| Heather and Ashley |
Cake time!
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| Cookie cake from the Chocolate Shoppe! |
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| Lighting the candles... |
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| Making a wish and blowing them out |
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| I love my family |
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| The Thomas's |
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| Loving his cookie cake |
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| TayTay and Anna |
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Stokes got a special "egg-free" cupcake since the cookie
cake contained eggs |
Time to play some more!
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| Sweet Caroline had just arrived right before cake time! |
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| Jacqui and Ben |
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| Aunt Ashley and William |
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| Moms in the pool |
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| Ryan with his water bomb |
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| Clark and Ava Lane |
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| Cutest thing ever - playing ring around the rosey in the pool |
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| float choo choo train |
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| Coolest Mom Award of the day goes to Stacey |
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Sweet little fruit cocktail
AL (watermelon) and Caroline (strawberry) |
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| Heather and Caroline |
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| Cute kiddos |
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| Love these girls! |
Kids getting eaten by sharks (AHHHH)! I didn't get a picture of all the kids that were there, but these were so cute and so fun:
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| Grayson |
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| Bennett |
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| Bo |
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| Ben |
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| Ava Lane |
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| Madison |
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| William |
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| Jackson |
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| Grayson (I think??) |
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| Walker hahahaha |
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| Caroline |
The pool party was a big hit and although I never technically reserved the pool, our group was the people at the pool that morning and we had the place to ourselves. You know what makes a really good party? It's the people that come and make it fun! We had a fantastic group of kids, who all just wanted to play and have a good time. The weather was perfect and the company was even better! In the end, I am glad that we decided to have a party after all.
We ended the day (after naps) with family time and dinner at our house. I didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but we were able to get all of MaSha's grandkids together for a picture. :)
