Libby's 8th birthday party

Today was Libby's 8th birthday party! Libby got one of her presents from us early...on Thursday we gave her a new bike! I had planned on waiting to give it to her on her actual birthday but I caved and gave it to her on Thursday so that we could ride her bike over the weekend.

Today was her party and it was a secret spy party. That isn't the easiest party in the world to plan but I put a little something together and had games where they could sharpen their secret spy skills. As they arrived the children received secret spy badges and then they played Break the Code that had a special message that I made for Libby. Next they played I Spy and after that they played Who Am I? where I taped a name of someone to their back and they had to ask the group yes or no questions to figure out who they were. The next game was Pass the Parcel - which was just hot potato where they used a box marked as Top Secret and Confidential and the music playing while they played the game was the Mission Impossible theme. After that they went outside to Burst the Bombs...there were 72 black balloons outside and they had to jump on them to "detonate" the bombs. :-) They came inside to have birthday cake but they found that the cake had been stolen and a riddle had been left. They had to figure out the riddles to lead them to each new clue and after five clues they found the cake. We cut up the cake and just as everyone was nearly finished with their cake we realized that we never sang Happy Birthday to Libby!!!!! I'm the worst mother ever!!!! So, after everyone was finished I brought the cake over to her and we all sang happy birthday. :-) After cake Libby opened her presents and then everyone went outside to play. Now that all the fun is over she is just waiting for her actual big day...Tuesday!