Life of Siew Gin, Alan and the 2 kids - Tyler and Cody: Kids Birthday Party 2014

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Kids Birthday Party 2014 - Knights Party

Due to demolition of our kitchen, i had somehow dropped the ball on the kids birthday party this year. I did try to convince them that they didn't need a party, but they were adamant about having the Knight's Party that I've been talking about for 6 months!!!

So, after finding out that there was availability at the local rec center, I immediately book the venue on the spot, sent out some invitations and started on my last minute panic mode preparation.

This year, i made some goblets for the table, knights outfits based on their knights outfits for the boys and flower garland for the girls. I also sewed the goodie bags as an effort to reduce the pile of material that's clogging up my basement.

Because of the dire state of our kitchen, I had taken Alan's wise advice to cater most things and even bought the cakes *gasp* and to mask the fact that i didn't have a fancy cake, i had bought an awesome castle model to present the cake with! The boys seemed quite pleased with it(yay!!).

We had an awesome response to the party this year. EVERYBODY replied with a yes(38 people!! Though we did get a few cancellations on the day due to illness). Not bad for a last minute party! On the day of the party, we had invited the guests to have a pre-party swim with Tyler and Cody. Most people also made it to the swim(amazing). And after about an hour of swimming, everybody headed to the party room which was frantically being set up by me, Addy and Irene.

We barely put everything down and the kids were all over the table, eating and drinking!! They must have been hungry. After the food, we had some party poppers activity. It was very amusing to watch their expressions of confusion trying to get it to pop. We did get most of them to pop. Then it was cake time. The boys each took a turn to stand up and had their birthday songs sung. After the cake, i decided to break out the confetti. Unfortunately i only bought 3. But we managed to convince the kids to pick up the confetti and throw them in the air! They had a lot of fun doing that!!

And with that the party ended. Goodie bags were passed out and the boys from the party were excited to find out that there is a shield and sword to go with their knight outfits!!

All in all, i think it was good party. A little stressful with the tight timing and prep work due to a location event. And the party felt a little bit like a whirlwind event as everything happened within 2 hrs. But Cody said, "it was the best party ever!", so i guess it was good enough! :)