Happy Birthday Keira!

For Keira's birthday we threw an action packed, low-stress backyard campout for about 10 kids. We started out with a BBQ hot dog dinner with corn on the cob, salad, and chips. The kids played and played until dark!
After dinner we had a timed watermelon eating contest (thanks Brooke for the idea!) with two kids at a time going head-to-head. The Anderson sisters competed, as did the Esqueda sisters, everyone got a chance. Janai was the winner with 56 seconds! (Not including Keira's daddy, who wolfed down his watermelon in 16 seconds flat)







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Here Keira is blowing out her candles & opening presents! (get the eating action shot in the background haha!)




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We also roasted marshmallows for Smores, and had a game of flashlight tag and 6-7 games of nightime outdoor hiding-go-seek. (Sorry, no pictures of the kids running around in the dark!) A bunch of girls also banded up in the sunroom with keira's new Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus CD's, dancing and singing away! The boys banded up together playing cars & trucks in the boys train table (good for older boys, who knew?)
Finally it was bedtime! All of us cozied up in the tent & told stories until we were too tired to keep our eyes open. I swear, within 30 seconds of the end of my last story, most of the girls were OUT like lights.







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So the girls got to sleep around 11:30, and surprise surprise! Two of them were up before dawn playing in the sunroom. We all got up pretty early & had an early-morning PJ party where I did all the girls nails, makeup, and painted color streaks & glitter in their hair.





I think they all had a blast, thank you parents for bringing the kids & thank you to the Wilsons for joining us for dinner and helping with all the kids!