Saturday, November 22, 2008
Chance's party was exciting, great, exhausting, I could go on forever. We had about 150 people there to yell 'SURPRISE!!!' when he walked in. There was so much going on, I know that I didn't get to talk to everyone and I'm sorry about that. If I missed you, thanks for coming. Here are some pictures to let you see the fun Chance had. Everytime I looked around for him, he had a huge smile on his face and was with a different group of people. I want to say thanks to the Assembly of God church for letting us use the Family Life Center for this 'shindig. The size of the building allowed us to have several different things going on at one time. It was great. For everyone that helped out, THANK YOU from the bottoms of our hearts. Chance was so happy!!!!!
The girls recycled the decorations. Looks like future designers!!
This is Justin. He is the husband of Chance's teacher from last year. He played the guitar for the kids for awhile and we did an awesome job!! We even did the Hokey Pokey which Chance picked up somewhere and has been singing alot lately. He also made a few of us big people get up infront of the kids and sing and do the motions to "I'm a little teapot". I hate getting in front of people but it was so fun. Thank you Justin!!
Look at that smile!! That was pretty much the look on his face all night.
After a very loud song of Happy Birthday, he blew out his candles. Notice the picture on the cake. He is still very much a Steeler's fan. The decorations were all black and yellow and football stuff.
Here is Big Barry with the pinata. Our stick broke and Bryan ran home to get a bat. Before he got back with it, the group decided just to tear the pinata apart and throw the candy. We also had a plastic bin FULL of candy. We threw it out into the crowd and it was gone in seconds....ok maybe it was minutes but not very many.
We had a moon bounce. Thanks Kathy and boys for letting us use it. I don't know how to turn the picture around on this blog so it is sideways.
This is a picture of Chance walking into the party. He was so overwhelmed and didn't know what to do. He thought we were taking food to a party that Quinton was at. He had absolutely no clue.
This is Blair giving Chance a big hug. Blair is one of Chance's favorite big kids.
We had about 50 people stay overnight. I really thought that with as much as the kids ran around and played, that they would be exhausted. That was not the case. At 2:30am, we still had kids running around and talking and just being kids. 
We turned the lights back on at 6:30 and made them all get up to have breakfast and clean-up. They cleaned up their stuff, ate their breakfast, and got back to playing. I just don't know how they did it. I was so exhausted. We went home and slept until 3:00. I'm just too old for this kind of stuff. But, as Chance said - 'This was the best first sleepover ever, I can't wait for the next one.' (I don't think I can handle a next one!!!)
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