My BABY turns 5

WOW....I can't believe it, Sydney is 5. Where has the time gone? Sydney was born on October 3 which also happens to be the same date as when Bill and I had our first date. Can you belive Bill and I had our first date, 16 years ago? We are coming up on our 10 year wedding anniversary this month on the 19th.
GOOD TIMES!!!
Onto the party.... At Sydney's request, she wanted a bowling party! I must say, I was happy it wasn't another SAT @ Chuck E Cheese. Not that I don't like it there, cause I do....it's just the weekends are crazy!
The party started with an hour of bowling....I couln't believe how well Sydney did, check out this score. Not sure why it woudln't show the whole screen. You'll have to click on the photo to make it larger, it's hard to see! Having the party at the bowling alley was good. I DID NOTHING... we had 3 teenage attendants doing all the work. In the package deal you got 10 guests plus the birthday child, 2 XLarge pizzas, 2 bottomless pitchers of soda, cupcakes, ice cream cups, pinata w/candy & a goody bag (wish I would have know that, I also made goodies bags) invitations and thank you cards (which I have yet to work on) all for the price of $199 Scary thing is, it sounds like a lot but by the time you buy food, plates, decorations, cake and whatever it gets up there. This party was worth it. 5 is a big milestone. PINATA...I have to talk about this!! This was fun, Sydney got first crack at it, with an aluminum bat no less. Shockenly enough it took some beatings but didn't break right away. All kids got to go at least twice. Finally it broke, after some help....and all kids were told to keep their faces to the wall and WAIT until they said GO. Next, the attendants spreaded out the candy on the crazy carpet and out went the lights and on went the BLACK LIGHTS....the candy was NOT visable to the eye....it was soo cool! The kids were told to GO...and they were a bit shocked to see it didn't look like any candy was there. After some digging around on there hands and knees.....they had LOTS of candy in their bags.
Sydney got some GREAT presents.... when we got back home it was like Christmas! Sydney had a GREAT birthday....Thanks everyone for coming and for being such great friends!
Now, I'd like to post a picture of the birthday gang, but for some reason it won't upload any more photos. I even started this a few days ago and saved it as a draft. Not sure what is going on! Mmmmm....