Kaitlyn Turns 7!!!

Here's some pictures from Kaitlyn's birthday party. She usually gets a little shafted on her birthday, so this year we thought we'd go all out and do a big one. She'd been talking for months about her birthday. She wanted it to be a Jungle or Safari one. Luckily on family fun's website they had an entire Jungle Safari theme, which I stole all my ideas from. :)

The kids got to decorate their pith helmets with jungle bugs and frogs and stuff. They thought it was pretty cool.

Each of the kids got a mini flashlight and they had to go on a snake hunt in a dark cave (uh, our bedroom) to find them all. One of the poor girls got quite scared and had to be emergency evacuated.

The snacks were Jungle Juice (Kool-aid), Beetle Wings (potato chips), Fried Ants (Raisins), Snake Eggs (Grapes), and Live Worms (sliced/cooked hot dogs). I thought the kids would be disgusted at my lack of sugary snacks, but they couldn't get enough. Not sure if it was the cool names of the treats, or that they really loved all those things. Either way, it was fun.

They had to go on an "expedition" through the jungle. Through a bat cave, under poisonous vines, through snake territory, over piranha rivers and quicksand, all the while carrying their "expedition supplies" which included their backpack and bed roll. They took it so seriously, it was hilarious.

Here's the slimy snake cake -- which, thanks to my talented brother John, got decorated. I was running around all morning doing other things, trying to finish some projects and things, and came home, with no cake made or decorated 2 hours before the party started. Thanks again John!

At the end, they had to rescue their base camp supplies out of a tree. As with all pinatas, it was dangerous, but fun. Our house is still decorated like a jungle. It was too much work to take down right away, and then we left for Colorado for a week! Anyone want some jungle leaves and vines?