A "SWEET SLUMBER PARTY"

Raegan's 9th Birthday

was supposed to be small and simple.

Once again...

I got out of hand.

We decided to do a candy bar

along with cupcake decorating and apple dipping.

Because everything was "sweets" related

the apples had crushed butterfinger, reeses peanut butter cups, white chocolate Hershey, nuts and caramel for dunking and rolling in.

This was Raegan's first, true slumber party.

I had just had surgery so luckily Grandma Hawaii and good drugs

were here to help!

The girls set up their sleeping bags first,

covering my entire family room floor.

After the cupcakes were decorated

we sang Happy Birthday to Raegan.

Then came the games...

The first game we played was the M&M game.

The girls pick out an M&M from the bag and the color they draw becomes their color.

The bag then continues around the circle, every time a girl draws an M&M.

If they do not pick their original color...

they must store them in their mouth!

Abby won with a whopping 14 peanut M&M's in her mouth!

The next game we played

was where one girl left the room and the rest chose a picture.

Then a skittle is placed over each picture.

The girl comes back into the room and begins picking up the skittles and eating them

off the pictures she thinks they picked.

When she is about to pick the skittle off of the chosen picture

the girls scream

"Don't Eat Pete!"

We also played the chocolate bar game.

In this game, the giant chocolate bar is wrapped several times.

The girls get a fork and mittens and begin unwrapping the chocolate.

The first team to successfully unwrap and eat the bar wins.

At 11 p.m. I finally had the girls settle down in their sleeping bags.

You'd think after all the candy they already had

they'd be sick...

but no

they wanted suckers!

I slept on the couch

keeping the girls contained.

I think the last one asleep was Megan

around 4 ish.

The next morning

around 6 a.m.

the girls were up and ready to start their day!

I made them strawberry waffles,

hot chocolate and lots of whipping cream.

After breakfast

the girls dipped into the candy bar!

I was pretty impressed that everyone made it out alive.

The amount of candy and chocolate consumed

should have completely obliterated their poor little tummies.
Ofcourse, I really don't know what happened when they got home...

All I know is, I survived.