Birthday party for Lucy

So we invited all 20 of Lucy's classmates to her birthday party on Thursday. Only HALF responded ! Not a problem less 5/6 year olds to deal with hehehe :)
But seriously made the party-prep a little tricky. Two of the boys live on compound and so their slightly older sisters asked to come along. This brought the expected total to 12 children, I can live with that !
Here we have the girls pre-party, while we put chairs etc. in the front garden.

We had arranged a bus to collect us after 30 minutes and take us across to The Mad House.
This is one of the facilities on our compound. What has happened is management have taken one of the sets of squash courts (so 2 sets of 3 remain in use) and filled it with a huge indoor play area. There's a tunnel from one court/playground through to the other too which adds even more fun.
It's great and the advantage is you can book it out for private use as we did for the party !
We headed over there for just over an hour and the kids ran riot - which of course they can do in there !

Back to the house for a quick game of pass-the-parcel which went so well we didn't have time for musical statues before sitting down for snacks/lunch - yes I had been up from veeerrrry early getting it all sorted (party started at 9am), energy for cooking/baking is just not very evident in my house !

The cake was a real flop ! Had baked two to form an "L" and decorate. BUT... when moving the one half, it just fell apart ggrrrr. So thankfully small number attending, we could make do with just the, that wasn't up to much itself (iced and name on in smarties by request only) and the cupcakes I'd baked as well.

Finally they all sat, quiet as mice with their mouths full of food - and we ask "Why didn't we start feeding them as they walked in the door ????"
Blow out the candles, sing happy birthday, party bags and off they went home.

Check out the photos below for a sneak peak at our fun morning.

Done for another year !
Happy Birthday Lucy
xxx