Zoe & Lucy's birthday party

For Zoe & Lucy's 8th birthday they wanted to have a party at a fun (expensive) party place. We decided that since it's really pretty cost effective with two of them, plus the fact that with their birthday being right after Christmas they don't need much in the way of presents (less expense for us there), we would do it. They had their party at Amazing Jake's and had a fabulous time!

First they had pizza, cake (that I made), and presents in their "party room." The movie Tangled was playing (projected onto the wall) and all of the little girls were quoting and singing along with it; it was pretty cute.
Here's a better shot of the cakes if you're interested. I had fun with these. Unlimited pizza & pop! Opening presents. They got a lot really cute stuff; there were a few "craft" items that have been especially big hits.

After eating & opening presents it was time for the crazy free-for-all: Amazing Jake's is a combination indoor amusement park (small rides) and arcade. Like a Peter Piper Pizza on steroids. It's so much fun! It's also huge though, and I didn't know how we were going to keep track of the kids. We decided to have them divide into groups and that ended up working really well; we knew the basic location of each group at all times so it was easy to check on them as they went from ride to ride. Here's Lucy's group:

And Zoe's group:

Noah and Molly stuck together in their own group of two; they didn't want to hang out with the "little kids" as much anyway. Aaron and I wandered around checking on the groups throughout the evening. It was a pretty good system.

They climbed the rock wall, rode on the carousel, bumper cars, mini rollercoaster, teacups, played miniature golf, played arcade games, skeeball, ate more food... whew! It was a lot of fun; crazy, but the kids were old enough to be responsible and stay with their groups, so it ended up being a great success.