Jackson's 8th Birthday Pool Party!

Who plans a birthday party on Friday 13th and truly expects it to be fine????

That would be ME!!!!

Well... it was FINE (i guess) but not without LOTS of STRESS!!!

Jackson's birthday is may 2nd and he wanted a swim party so i decided to do it a few weeks later in May to let it "warm up".... ha ha ha ha ha ha... welcome to the south where you can swim on thanksgiving day, wear shorts on christmas, have snow in april, and wear your coat in may!

Needless to say my plan did not go as planned! All last week RP kept telling me it is going to rain... you are not going to have that party... don't go buy anything... cancel the room reservation... don't order a cake etc etc etc... well fast forward to thursday night... the night before the party and RP realizes OH MY you are going to get that party in... well really??? and then i wake up friday morning and it is beautiful outside... OMG!!!! I have nothing for this birthday party!!!!!!

Thank goodness for an understanding boss... ashley said take the morning... go buy what you need and get it done... so we had the most "thrown together" birthday party ever (b.c we really did not have another time to re schedule... due to baseball, end of school, etc)... i went to walmart and just bought what they had... blue cupcakes, birthday plates, water toys for party favors... i went from no party to party in about 2 hours...

*** side note... i get to work and was there for about 30 minutes... on THE busiest day of the year b.c it was our 50% off sale day... phones were ringing off the wall, emails were dumping in in boxes and the store was packed and get a call from the school Brylee has pink eye.... what????? and yes you have to come get here.... OH ME OH MY!!!! I get in the car, call my mom and have a 3 year old tantrum!!!! What else could go wrong???? Thank goodness my sweet dad was working from home and was willing to have a little helper.... and by the way she DID NOT have pink eye... and still doesn't... REALLY??? i was not happy to say the least!!!!****

back to the birthday party... well we ended up having it... I threw it together in about 30 minutes before everyone arrived and guess what they BOYS had a great time and in the grand scheme of things it really did not matter that is was or was not planned!

Now it was a whopping 65 degrees and windy and the pool was outside and not heated and they froze when they got out... but they truly had a great time playing like rowdy little boys!!! :)

The Pool Party in Pictures... and there are not many of those either!!!! the boys had the most fun throwing water balls at each other...it was way cold by the time we did cupcakes

and the wind kept blowing out the candles

one fun bunch a boys!!!!

Happy Birthday Jackson Man!

I am glad we got your swimming birthday party in...

even if it was not the nice warm planned birthday party we thought it would be

it was a birthday party none the less

and you and your buddies had a great time!