Ashley's Birthday Party

As I said previously about Hayley's party, Ashley was still reminding me six months after the fact that she didn't have a birthday party. I've already defended my reasons, but Ashley just did not want to be birthday-party-less. I decided on something fun and easy for her.

Ashley's dance schedule made it really difficult to schedule something for her, so we decided to do a late night Friday party. We started at 6:00 after ballet. Ashley invited just four friends so that they would all fit in the van. First of all we went to the swimming pool where the girls had a great time swimming. They had such a great time swimming that I couldn't get them out of the pool. Suffice it to say, we got to our next part of the evening very late! After swimming we went to the Old Spaghetti Factory where the girls had a "grown-up" dinner followed by spumoni icecream and cupcakes. Ashley was very particular about the way the cupcakes were to look.

Ashley and all the girls had a great time and we dropped off the children very late at their houses. We now have to live down a reputation with the neighbors of being late night partiers with eight year old children.

Unfortunately I cannot post any photos of the night's festivities. Our house was broken into in the wee hours of the morning and the camera was one of the things stolen :(.