End Of The School Year Ice Cream Party

I'm back trying to get caught up still. I told you about Evan's last day of school. It's hard to believe it's already been a week since they've been out. Now for the end of the school year ice cream party. I told Evan since he did so good in school this year that we could have an ice cream party at the neighborhood park with some of his friends if he wanted. He thought that was a very cool idea. Plan A was, I told him he could invite ten kids from class and we'd have the party at the park. If it rained then we'd just do at the house. Then it ended up being that I didn't have everyone's contact information, and I couldn't have him pass out invites to just some of the class at school (that's frowned upon at school). So we went with Plan B which was we'd just invite the whole class. I decided to put a rain date on the invite because there was no way I was having the whole class in this house. Then we crossed our fingers that one of the two dates would end up being a nice day. It was a little last minute throwing it together so I figured more than likely half the class wouldn't be able to attend. The plan was the kids could meet at the park and play for a little bit and then they could build their own sundaes at the ice cream sundae bar!

We ended up having about half the class (yay I guessed right), and I invited Jess and her kids to join us. The weather cooperated and last Thursday evening turned out to be nice and sunny (yay again)! We had chocolate and vanilla ice cream. The toppings included chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, three kinds of sprinkles, crushed Oreo cookies, and marachino cherries. The kids played for probably about 45 minutes, then they made their sundaes and ate, and then played a little more. They all had a really good time and the parents thought it was a great idea and way to end the school year. I'm so glad we decided to do it! Here's some pictures from the fun evening. I didn't get as many as I would have liked.

The boys were playing tag. Evan going after his friend Ko, and Ben up on the stairs.

Emme found a friend in Jaidyn (Evan's little crush) and they played together all evening.

Emme even got Jaidyn's dad to push her on the swings.

Evan's friends, Joey and Ben were first in line to make their sundaes.

Evan making his sundae!

Some of the girls eating their sundaes. Notice Emmaline sitting next to Jaidyn. I was scooping ice cream so I had Greg snap a few pics, but the boys were too fast and by the time I got done scooping they were already back on the playground.

Before I leave tonight, just a little fun tidbit. It was five years ago today that we moved into our house. It's hard to believe in a way. At times it seems like we've been here forever, and at other times it doesn't seem like it's been five years.