Lauren's 7th Birthday Sleepover

I can't believe my big girl is seven years old.  She decided several months ago that she wanted to have a sleepover for her birthday this year.  After doing a little research on line to find some ideas for what kind of activities to have for a sleepover, I ran some ideas by Lauren and she took the ball and ran with it.  That girl is such a planner and organizer.  She made a list of the activities she wanted to do.  She even wrote about those ideas at school for one of her writing assignments.  She cracks me up with her love of writing lists.  She invited four of her friends  from school and I also invited our neighbor Chloe who is Allison's age.  I wanted to make sure Allison would have a friend there in case the older girls did not want to play with her. But all the girls did great with Allison and Chloe.  I was so proud of all the girls.  

Lauren's agenda was as follows (and she had this spelled out on her paper)

   ~Arrival and take things to the bonus room

   ~Eat pizza

   ~Crafts---First craft was to decorate a pair of flip-flops with jewels.  Second craft was decorating   sleepover pillow case.  The girls did a really great job with this and they all signed their names on each other's pillow case and put the date on it.  They were so excited to put their pillowcases on their pillows when it was time to go to sleep.

    ~Eat cake and ice cream

    ~Open presents

    ~Games-----they danced and ran around the bonus room, played musical sleeping bags, had a pillow fight.....then just played with toys in the bonus room.

    ~Brush teeth, then Movie......that didn't go over too well because some wanted to play and some were getting tired...but they didn't want to miss out on anything.  They decided to stop the movie and just play.  It was amazing how many toys they were able to get out in such a short amount of time.  

At 10:00  I went in and told them it was time get settled down and get ready to sleep.  By that time the girls were pretty much delirious.  Allison gets so excited when she is trying to sleep with other kids that she can not settle down.  Bill and I both had to lie on the bonus room floor to get all the girls to finally go to sleep.  It was about 11:00 when the last one, Emma fell asleep.  Lilly and Riley did not spend the night, so there were only five to try to get to sleep, but it is amazing how hard it is to get five very tired and excited girls to go to sleep.  Allison woke up around 4:30 to go to the bathroom and she went back and woke Lauren up....and then the others.  Bill had to go in there and send Allison to her room which made her very unhappy.  I spent the next 20 minutes trying to keep her from crying and keeping all the girls awake.  Everyone finally went back to sleep and I had to wake Carissa and Chloe up at 6:30 because they were leaving for Atlanta.  That just left Lauren and Emma (her BFF from 1st grade) and Allison.  They played very well together that morning before Bill made Chocolate Chip pancakes and sausage for breakfast.  Emma left at 10:00 and the girls continued to play until Granny and Pawpaw got here around noon to help celebrate Lauren's birthday again with the family!!!  I'll post pictures of the family celebration later.

We decorated the dining room for Lauren's party

Lauren's Sleepover birthday cake

Chloe, Allison,  and Lilly decorating their flip-flops

Lilly, Emma, Carissa, Lauren and Riley decorating their flip-flops

Allison, Lilly, Emma and Carissa

Lilly and Lauren decorating their sleepover pillowcases

Riley decorating her pillowcase

Chloe, Allison, Carissa, Lilly, Lauren, Riley and Emma 

Lauren and her BFF from Kindergarten, Lilly

Lilly, Carissa, Lauren, Emma, Allison, Riley and Chloe

Opening presents...Riley, Lauren, Emma, Lilly

Riley, Lauren and Emma

Lauren striking a pose

Finally sleeping at the sleepover.....Allison and Chloe

Emma and Lauren

Lauren and Carissa

Happy Birthday my sweet Lauren.  I'm so proud of you and the beautiful young lady you are!!  I hope you enjoyed your first sleepover.