Party

Well, so far, I only have one party to report.  The surprise one has been postponed until next week, until Knut realized that next week will be Thanksgiving, so it’s been delayed indefinitely.  More planning time for the kids, I guess!

Elias had a great party, thanks to all the family that helped out!  Elias snuck in and was born exactly a week before his cousin Isaac who was actually due before him.  These pseudo-twins had a combined party this year and my only job was to provide the house, and my dear sister in law provided the cake and favors.  I got most of the house ready on Saturday, but after doing a few last minute things on Monday before everyone came over, I started getting some extremely hard contractions about an hour before this intended party.  Like a good girl, I stopped preparing and put my feet up and drank some water.  It was so hard to sit there and look around at all the last minute things to get into place.  However, I learned that people understand when you don’t get up to greet them at the door.  They are fully capable of getting their own drinks and there are plenty of hands available to cut cake and serve the older generation.

As you can probably guess, though, everything slowed down for me, and other than some growing discomfort, everything is going very well.  Now onto the party!

My sister in law made little party hats for everyone.  She didn’t even leave out the unborn as there was a little baby hat with a ribbon long enough to wear all the way around my tummy!  I got a good laugh out of that!

Everyone got a hat, and I must say that grandpa and great-grandpa looked quite dashing in them.

The girls (Silje and my niece) sported pink and purple.

The cake was soooooo yummy, complete with dirt, worms, and bugs.

In the midst of party planning, Rondi and I were trying to figure out if the boys should each have a cake, or if we should combine everything.  She had the idea that she could take just a pinch of extra cake batter and make 2 cupcakes so that the boys could each have their own “cake.”

Grandma brought dozens of balloons left over from a Veterans’ Day celebration she had gone to and they were quite a hit!

Other than dealing with some emotions from the older kids who were not to pleased that Elias and Isaac got new presents and they did not, it was a raging success and I’m so grateful for all the help in pulling it off!