Birthday Fun!

Back in July, I won a national sweepstakes from Martha Stewart Kids magazine. It was a child's birthday party for 15 kids. Given that the two youngest have summer birthdays that are 12 days apart and that the Teenager doesn't do parties anymore, Social Butterfly was the obvious choice to be the recipient. Her birthday is this month so the party is starting to come together and boy is it fun!
Invitations arrived this week, custom made to fit the monkey/spa theme my girl decided on. Along with the invitations, she got a 15 pound box of extra stationary stuff from the invitation company and a scrapbooking page kit for each girl. Today I got my second phone call from Martha's people who wanted to finalize the catering menu. The caterer is a very good one in these here parts, according to my hubby whose work has used them several times. We'll be having a taco bar with beef and chicken tacos and all the fixings, macaroni and cheese, and chicken nugget skewers with peanut dipping sauce. We'll be having a cake shaped like a monkey head, chocolate, of course, and a make your own banana split bar. They are also bringing the snacks since it is a slumber party. They'll be bringing pretzels and doritos and skittles and reeses candies along with plenty of Dr. Pepper. They are also providing breakfast the next morning which is Monkey bread and fresh fruit! There will be a server here from 6-8 the night of the party as well. They are also sending nail polish kits and lotions, etc for each girl and also, a book for each girl on fun manicure stuff so they can give manicures to each other at the party. They are providing all the decorations, a filled Monkey pinata and the goody bags already filled with monkey themed items. This is amazing, but so much fun!
Along with all the party stuff, we've received several gift cards from Best and Co, Olive Kids and Zutano, along with a box full of activities for the girls from a place called Makit products and a memory album and lots of other stuff from Snapfish! I can't believe that I actually won all of this stuff from filling out one form online!
The party is sure to be lots of fun for my girl and it really couldn't happen to a sweeter kid. This girl is so nice and polite and wonderful in so many respects and while she's excited about it, she's not being obnoxious about the kind of party she's having, just thankful and happy!