A Mermaid's Party

Piper wanted a Mermaid party for her birthday.

Cool beans. I thought. I'll buy a pool, fill up a few water balloons. Easy, peasy.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find a pool after July. And by difficult, I mean impossible. So we settled on a water slide and a sprinkler under the tramp. Plus, we had a whole mini-pool filled with water balloons.


Here's Adi and Pipes waiting for the guests to get there...



I made (with help from my Momma) mermaid tales for all of the girls. Some of the girlies wouldn't wear them however. And as soon as we started the water games they all took them off.



But then, on the day of her party, a freak wind storm came up, and we could barely do anything outside. You can see me on the edge of the photo trying to hold down the top of the water slide. The wind kept blowing the top of the slide upside down.



Then the girls attempted a relay race involving water balloons, the slip-n-slide, a wet kiddie slide and then jumping on the tramp...



It turned into Whitney and I just throwing all the balloons onto the tramp while the girls jumped.



The girls tried to make seashell necklaces, but by this point the wind was so bad that their bags of beads wouldn't even stay on the table.



Not to mention that the table decorations wouldn't stay on the table.



So I had to quickly move everything inside and set it up for the 11 girls to eat in here.



The cake. Oh the cake.

Originally, Piper wanted a cake made of Jello. Easy, right? Put some blue Jello into a bundt pan, add some sweedish fish and whip cream, and Wahla! Jello cake.

Except that the Jello kind of fell apart when I dumped it out of the pan. And the sweedish fish turned pink and looked really quite nasty.

So OP made a quick run to Costco and just got a white cake with some huge and ugly red and blue flowers in the middle. Whitney removed said flowers and we added this Mermaid bracelt thingy in the middle.



Not too bad, eh?

Piper really enjoyed everyone singing to her.



After we loaded the girls up on sugar, we had Pipes open her presents.

Whit and I taught them the fine art of "Heavy, heavy hangover".



We then turned on some Camp Rock 2, Selena Gomez and the like and the girls got to dance (inside) and act as crazy as they wanted to.

It turned out pretty well, considering all the obstacles that sprung up, so I'm going to chalk this party up as a success.

But I will probably never count on the weather for an outside party again :)