A big, big weekend....including Sweet 16!

Maylin had her last swimming lesson on Thursday. She did really well. They moved her up two levels. We will sign up again in a couple of weeks. She was so brave in the water. When they had the kids jump off the side into the teacher's arms, Maylin would have none of it. She would either jump over the teacher or to the side so she could do it completely by herself.

On Thursdays, Alex has his self defense class during Maylin's swimming lessons. He has been taking them for a month and loves them! He thinks it is the greatest thing on the planet. I am so glad he loves it. He comes home and likes to practice on dad.

Now, on to the big news!!!! Maylin turns 6 on Monday, March 5 and Kenzie turns 16 on March 6. My kids only get parties every 4 years (yep, they think I am awful, but that's life). This was one of Kenzie's 4 years. Being her 16th, we went all out! I have never done a party like this ever. We rented two rooms in a convention/party building that was close to my kids' school since that is where most of the kids would be coming from. (We live 25 minutes from the school) One was a conference room were we had dinner, a movie on a big screen, dancing and cake. We had some games too. The other smaller room had pool, games and the wii Just Dance game.

Here is her cake! A lady whose husband works for us made the cake. Isn't it incredible?! The bottom is a homemade funfetti cake and the top is chocolate. It was so good.

I had props for the kids to use for group pictures. I even made the mustaches and the eye brows. The kids had so much fun. This is one of the groups Kenzie was in. We started with about 30 people and then when the school basketball game ended 30 more kids came. It was wild with the 60 kids there!

One of the activities included a bubble gum blowing contest. Here is Kenzie with her attempt. She didn't win.

These boxes are filled with different kids of candy. The kids could fill the colored bags with the candy.

Here is where we had dinner. There was bubble gum in the buckets on the table. We ate pizza, lots of kinds of chips, veggie trays and pop/water. Of course there was cake and ice cream and all the candy.

Here is Kenzie and some of her friends playing candy land.

The Just Dance 2 game was a hit. It was just fun to watch the kids dance.

Here is Kenzie pretending to blow out the candles. I forgot matches.

Here are some of the guests enjoying snacks, pool and their friends.

The boy in the background eating the pizza is the boy Kenzie has her eye on. He seemed like a really nice boy. He is in 11th grade. Yep, she likes an older boy. Kenzie invited the whole 10th grade and the whole 11th grade plus some friends from home. Since my kids go to a private school there are only 26 kids in each grade.

Twister was also a hit. Kenzie's friends were very generous. She got some great gifts! It definitely was a party to remember!