The Darimar Birthday Party!

After attending a birthday party for her future boyfriend, Mitchell, Kendyl refused to let the idea of a Martial Arts party die. I offered tea parties, gymnastics, skating, etc--all to no avail! After accepting that my normally prissy girl seriously wanted a martial arts party, I made the call and got it all set up.

When party day arrived Kendyl was thrilled. I begged her to nap and she actually did, so I knew things were looking good. 20 of her friends from school, playgroup, and our other close buddies all showed up to celebrate her big day.

Here are the girls right before heading out

Here's the group enjoying the obstacle course at the start of the party. The kids ran and jumped and climbed for the first thirty minutes. This party is guaranteed to wear them out!

Then they learned some martial arts moved ad practiced their yelling. What kid doesn't LOVE to scream at the top of their lungs and get commended for it??!

Then MORE running, and listening, and responding to instructions...this party (and martial arts) might be a parent's dream come true! The kids really seemed to enjoy the kicking and punching drills too and were all excited to try and jump and hit their heads on the pads. I got lucky and captured a good shot of Kendyl succeeding!

Then we headed to the party room for cake and pizza and the all important singing to the b-day girl (the cake of choice this year was HSM, b/c it was "good for boys and girls").

Cake was followed with a fun game of freeze tag (well, at least it started out fun--Kendyl got hit in the head and had a mini meltdown) and then dancing under the disco lights. The kids had such a great time--it was like fast forwarding to junior high and their first dances!

The fun didn't stop after we got home where Kendyl got to open ALL her cool presents. She has some fantastic friends and was thrilled with everything. Amazingly, we got not a single duplicate of anything that she had received for Christmas or from family and friends before her party!
Thanks to everyone that helped make her celebration such a great event for her! She's lucky to have so many well behaved and sweet friends!