Snowman Dinner

Katie R.
(Photos taken by Becky Whitney www.rubsomedirtblog.com)

What does an event planner do when she is no longer employed?  Have a party for her son and her friends’ children of course.  As the majority of our friends now have two kids, we invited the “older” kids to a snowman dinner and the dads and little ones headed to Katie D’s house for a much more relaxed evening.

The party started with the kids having a snowman dinner consisting of a snowman peanut butter and jelly sandwich, cinnamon and sugar tortilla snowflakes and snowman donuts for dessert. All 8 children sat in their chairs, talked, laughed and ate which was remarkable considering the majority of the kids were 3 years old. The moms had pizza and wine… the wine is a very important part of a snowman dinner.

After dinner the real fun started.  I have to credit my mom, a retired kindergarten teacher, for giving me the idea of having a snowball fight with cotton balls.  However, I had to take it to the next level because if you’re going to create the arctic in your basement, you have to have 4,000 cotton balls, 100 hundred blocks and fifty balloons.  So the kids lined up and went downstairs for a “snowball fight.”  At first they were shocked at actually being able to throw things at each other and their moms, however, they soon got into it and had a blast.  The moms seemed to have a pretty good time too, but that could have just been the wine.