Ella's 8th Birthday/New Year's Eve Party

This year for Ella's 8th birthday we decided it would be fun to actually have her party on her birthday. So we invited her friends over to spend the night and have a Birthday/New Year's Eve party with us. On December 31st, 8 little girls came to our house ready to party!

We decorated the house with a combo of Happy Birthday and New Year's decorations and had music and a disco ball going when everyone arrived....true party atmosphere! The disco ball was a huge hit!

Here is the birthday girl before everyone got there. Boy, she is looking grown up! Although she doesn't look too excited in this picture she really was. We curled her hair and got her all fancy! She loved it!!

Once everyone got there they played a game of Twister while I set up the pizzas.

We had french loaf pizza for dinner and everyone got to make their own. I don't know if anybody actually ate any pizza but they had fun making them!

We then played the donut game which is a game we got from my sister Julie. Thankfully, Lyle had the night off and in between quarters of the Duke vs. Texas A&M Chickfila bowl game, he was able to help out. It was so funny watching them try and eat these donuts without using their hands! Luke even got in on the fun!

Then for some reason everyone was ready to put their PJs on. So we had 9 little girls in Ella's room changing clothes and squealing the whole time!! They played a couple rounds of Just Dance on the Xbox. So funny!!

Then it was time for sundaes!

Luke was right in the middle of all of it!!! They were really nice to him, thankfully!

We had a timer set up with the countdown to the New Year's going so when it got close the girls' put on their party hats and horns for a quick picture before going outside to pop poppers.

Then we made a toast to good friends and a good 2014!

Happy New Year, Ella!!

We finally got everyone down and quiet to watch a movie around 11pm....although I heard the next morning, Ella and a friend stayed up until 3 am! They thought they were so cool!

The next morning around 7am, everyone was ready to go and very hungry!!

I made chocolate chip pancakes along with biscuits and sausage. Did you know you could have too many chocolate chips?? Apparently one of the girls thought so and didn't eat!! At this point I was telling myself....only a couple more hours!!

We sang to Ella while she blew out candles and then everyone ate and talked about the night before.

There was some more Just Dance and some playing outside before parents came and it was time to go home....my favorite part of the whole party!!
Ella had a great time and loved having everyone over. I was happy that she was so happy!