PLaNniNG a PaRtY?

So I'm sitting here eating my breakfast rice krispie treat this morning (I can count it as breakfast cause there's cereal in it, right?) looking through emails and I pull up one up from Jillian at catchmyparty.com (thanks for filling me in, by the way) who tells me I've been featured on one of my very favorite blogs...DeSiGn DaZzLe.






Have you been there?  If not you must go!  This is where I steaL  get a lot of my party inspiration, not to mention kids room decorating ideas...really good stuff!  I really cannot believe that my party made the cut.  Very flattered to be in such creative company. 
And if there isn't enough inspiration there for ya, you need to go here or here for even more party inspiration.  I had no idea of this site/blog until this morning...and could totally have used it before now!  Tons of great ideas!!

I'm always happy to learn of new blogs to visit and had to share these with you with you so you can benefit, too! 
HapPy PaRty PLanNinG!

We had a PaRtY!

We had a party.

It was a success...or good enough anyway (never does go exactly as planned).

The kid was happy.

I'm happy to have it over with.

Here's how it went down.

First we invited a few people...

The people came...

We had a little CaKe...
I decided to get brave and attempt making the cake myself this year.  And after a lot of consulting with others and a bit of stress involved...we had cake.

 

...and CuPCaKes

I nearly poisoned a few children with the red frosting.  I had to use a LOT of red food coloring to actually get RED.  Wasn't really thinking about how they might taste.  Always choosing fashion over function...oops!

And a little CandY...

  

...PoP cOrN...PeaNutS...

  

 

...CiRCuS PeaNutS...

Then we played some GaMEs...

SpiLLed the MiLk...

ToSseD BeaN baGs aT the CLoWN...

FisHed the PoNd...

ToSsed the RiNGs...

Had a CLoWn ReLaY...

RaCed the DuCKs...

Got DuNked in the TaNk...

Won PriZes and FaVOrs...

We had everything a clown could need, bow ties, red noses, BiG sunglasses, BiG flowers, whoopee cusions, trick cameras and gum (the spraying kind), a few noise makers and of course gold fish (yes, real ones)...

I made a few flowers for the older girls and adults that helped.  THANK YOU ALL!!

Missed a few of the deCoRAtiONs...

I didn't get much of the decorations up due to the hurricane force winds we had.  That's right, we had a party in the wind :P 

Had a little of this...

But I did manage to get my pennant banners up (and they even stayed up).

I didn't get tables decorated as you can see above.  A lot of the decor stayed in the house and didn't get used : (  Guess that just means we'll have to have another carnival : )

...that is if the RinGmASteR allows it.   

What can I say, I'm one lucky girl to have this guy who puts up with me.  Here he is after the circus (and I mean it literally!) sopping wet (from being dunked in the dunk tank), covered in frosting (from kids faces) managing to put a smile on his face so that I can get a picture of his shirt.  What a guy! 

And that was that. 

We had a party.

 Now I can put these feet up (for a couple of months anyway) and rest for a bit. 

One more year, one more party down.