Partay

Party in the hooouuuuuuwwwwse....

Zach turned 12 last week and kinda mentioned having a party.  I was thinking....awesome tricked out invitations (you all know my style "go big or go home" when it comes to a theme party), streamers, balloons, sweet goody bags...cutesy theme cake and a......

{SCREECH}

...then came Zach, and his little voice said..."uuuh, yeah, I'll just tell my friends about it at school or I'll text them." And then I was all like "exqueeze me?  There needs to be some kind of actual paper invites so parents know that it's actually happening...and when to drop off, and more importantly...when to pick up.  So he passed out some invites, that he made himself on the computer, to a few kids a couple days ago and all but one of the kids was able to come.   (In the interest of full disclosure I did jazz up the invites with a little razzle dazzle...listen, on some level, this is a reflection of my craftiness). 

I had some inkling that I would not be organizing pin the tail on the donkey or spoon and egg races. It makes me nervous not to have a schedule and a plan...I tend to like organization and I can't stress enough how much I ♥ a theme.

The boys arrived..played some video games and "hung out." "It was tight!!"  (I only say that because it was the most used phrase at the party...and since I'm a super cool mom, I'm working it in whenever I can).  After the hanging out, there was the first of numerous Nerf gun fights and then we did this...by Zach's request...

and the boys LOVED it.  I did not realize that there were kids out there that had never made their own pizzas. SERIOUSLY!! This is something we do lots of Friday nights and I was pleased to see that they were completely excited and totally into it. Honestly, it was a real hit...Oh sorry..it was tight!  WHO KNEW???? 

Aren't they a cute little bunch??  Anyway, they had a great time and I figured since we went to the 8:40pm showing they would be wiped out when we got back. Oh sweet goodness...no...they were raring to go.  They watched movies and text messaged friends (the incessant texting and instant messaging drives me INSANE). I finally made them turn out the lights at 1:30am but Charlie, who was on kid patrol upstairs, said they finally fell asleep around 3:30 am.

Even after a late night they managed to get up by 8 am for breakfast.  (Let's see if they can maintain this regimen in college.)  We had a nice big breakfast...again thinking they would just hang out till pick up time but oh nooooooo.....

evidently the thing to do on a full stomach is a full on - whole house - NERF fight....as you can see I was attempting to read the paper...before I vacated the area for fear of getting hit!

Do you see Brooke in the mix?  She knows no danger!  

Here is a retreat back up the stairs.....

and then back downstairs.....the Nerf gun fight was tight though!  I was so happy to finally yell "cease fire" as the parents were due to arrive in a few minutes. 

I knew the whole "goody bag" thing wouldn't really fly, but I had purchased these plastic popcorn containers at Target a while back and remembered I had them in my craft stash.  The guys used them for their movie, so I put a can of silly string in the bottom and a handful of candy in a bag on top of that and attached the thank you note with a photo I had taken of them last night.  The boys, even Zach, thought it was so awesome tight. 

So, in the end, there was no crazy theme...no coordinated plates...no cutesy decorations and I was told by Charlie at least 10 times that they were fine and not being too rowdy and just having fun...and judging from the complaints from the kids that their parents came to pick them up too early (when it was actually on time), they must have had a great time.

I guess we can sum it up in one word....

AWESOME!!

Yeah...I know you thought I was gonna say TIGHT

...but let's face it we already knew it was 

TIIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTT!!!!!