Alice's 6th Birthday Pool Party

Alice's birthday party this year was at our pool. We can reserve the gazebo there for free, which is a very nice perk. I think we've got the plan for birthdays for the next 10 years covered. We invited a mix of friends from kindergarten (Brantley and Julia), daycare (Izzy, Anna, Lukas, Oscar, Glenn, Murphy) and neighbors (OBJ's family). Everyone we invited was able to come except Parker, so we had about 20 guests total, including parents.

Zac made cupcakes.

About an hour before the party, we went to the pool and decorated the gazebo with dollar store decorations and leftover streamers from last year (or maybe two years ago). As you can see, nothing was color coordinated.  Our "theme" every year is just "colorful!"

The party favors were dive toys and goggles (from the dollar store) and these sunglasses leftover from last year. The sunglasses were a big hit.

Then the kids started showing up. We basically had the pool to ourselves most of the morning, except for one or two other people.

Around noon, we had five pizzas delivered to the pool from Papa John's.

Once everybody sat down, with did the cupcakes, since I knew kids would soon be jumping back in the pool and we didn't want to have to gather everyone up again.

Although the party was officially from 11-1, most people stayed until around 2.  Simon was tuckered out at the end.

Back at home, after nap, we let Alice open her presents from her friends.

We all love the glitter glow lamp. It matches the Fight-Over lamp nicely.