Garden of Dreams

 Quinn's birthday celebration culminated with the sleepover of all sleepovers.  She really wanted to have her first sleepover with a group of friends for her birthday and there is a local woman who sets up these amazing slumber party themes so it was a no brainer.  Quinn picked a really nice group of friends, the lady did all the set up and tear down, and I just had to feed them and provide a couple of actives.  Otherwise, the girls took care of theirselves, they were so kind to include Mairin throughout the night, and were easy to have over.  It was a great party and she is already talking about choosing a different theme and doing it again next year.

Wouldn't be a party without a game of Ask Zandar.

We had an unusually warm weekend which was so great and allowed the girls to get outside to run around a little bit before winding down for a movie and bed.

Poor Nolan was supposed to spend the night at Calvin's that night but he slipped in the bathroom and hit his head on the countertop.  We weren't comfortable sending him down there with the enormous knot on his forehead so they scheduled a rain check for the following weekend.

The girls did a nice job of calming down at the end of the night.  Maybe the lavender mud mask did the trick?  They watched Jumanji with their American Girl dolls and then brushed their teeth and chatted in their tents before falling asleep.

The girls said they woke up around 7:15 and talked some more before heading up for breakfast.  We had a big spread of doughnuts, Beehive Bread, fruit and eggs.  They ate, got changed and played a little more before it was time for everyone to get packed up to go home.  Successful first group sleepover!