Kaitlyn's 7th and Brianna's 5th Birthday

Playing a game to see who can eat the most chocolate covered Marshmallows. All the kids ate about 2 and gave up. They said they were too sweet.





The girls birthday's were so much fun. We had birthday parties for both of them. The Dutch culture has very specific rules as to what is acceptable at a birthday party. Here are a few of them.



1)5-10 friends are invited to the party. Any more than that and it is seen as"to much".
2)The party last for about 4 or more hours.
3)You feed the kids a meal of course since you are having a party for so long.
4)It is important that you give everyone else a gift on your birthday to let them know it is your Birthday.
5) You have several parties. One with the kid's friends from school and then one with your friends and there kids.



So the morning of the girls birthdays we had treats prepared for them to take to school and give out to there class and to all of there friends. They aren't just normal treats, they are very creatively done treats with a little notes that says Kaitlyn is 7 jaar (years) or Brianna is 5 jaar. We took a Styrofoam box and rapped it in tinfoil and decorated it with birthday stuff. Then we took Lollies and printed out pictures of flowers and taped them to the Lollies. We put all the Lollies into the box and made it look like a flower garden. They handed these out to there class with chocolate chip cookies. Of course for the teachers you are suppose to bring something special a larger nicer treat. Like chocolates. However it isn't just for your kids teacher but for all the teachers with in 3 levels of your kids class.



So once that task was done I could start working on the birthday party. We had planned treasure hunts. We made a piñata for all the kids to break open and we had all sorts of games and activities to play and do.



One of the most fun things we did was all of the kids hid there gifts in the house and the girls had to find the gifts.



Brianna's party was on Friday and Kaitlyn's was on Saturday. It was a lot of fun but we were so tired and so stressed by time the whole thing was done. Next year I just want to find a park to do it at.



We took so many fun pictures of their Birthday party but my camera wigged out and lost all of the pictures. All of them are gone. I was so sad. But at least we still had the party to go with our friends and their kids. We had that the following week.



We planned it on a day the girls had off from school and it was fun. Except for the fact that we went to the store that morning to buy food and everything we needed for the party to find out that this was a national holiday and all the stores were closed and there were no stores open. We were so sad. How were we going to have this party we planned with all the stores closed? Brian went searching across town and found 1 store by the train station open and we got what we could to make a party work. It wasn't what we had planned but it was still nice.



So above are pictures of that party that we did for the girls. We bought a new camera also to make sure we didn't lose any more pictures.