Natalie's "Dynamite" 11th Birthday!

So in an effort to catch up on my blogging here's a recap of Natalie's birthday party from 2 weeks ago...

Natalie seriously considered for a couple weeks what she wanted to do for her birthday. After much deliberation she finally decided to have a Nerd birthday party. Everyone was to come dressed as nerds. And to make sure it was the Ultimate in Nerdy we would watch Napoleon Dynamite and play games and eat food based upon the movie.

Upon arrival Natalie's nerdy friends: Keely, Hannah, Haley, Amanda, and Taylor were ushered to the "glamour shots" studio where "Deb" (Hilary) took their photos. Then we all sat down and learned to make friendship bracelets like the ones Deb is selling door to door to earn money for college in the movie.

Actually many of Natalie's friends hadn't ever seen Napoleon Dynamite so once we got them fed with pizza and "tots" and they were working hard on their bracelets we turned on the movie so they could "get" why we were taking their glamour shots, feeding them tots and making friendship "boondoggles."

As we got to certain parts in the movie that we had planned games based on, we would stop the movie and play the games. First we stopped to go "feed Tina." We had some mashed potatoes made up and we stapled a poster of this llama on the fence outside. The girls took turns flinging mashed potatoes at the poster. It was hilarious!!! I posted the video on the blog to the right. Later we stopped the move again to play Pin the Tail on the... Liger!! (of course!)

When we got to the "gimme some of your tots" scene, we stopped it one last time for ice cream and "tater tot" cake. Don't worry, it wasn't really an overgrown tuber turned tot - it was a cake. (Thanks to Grandma Joyce for coming through on another awesome cake! And for Ryanne for letting us copy her idea.)

The girls finished watching the movie and I headed up to the computer to process the glamour shots so the girls could take them home. Here are the pics of Natalie, Emma and Dani.

So the Nerd Night was a complete success and the girls departed with chapstick, glamour pics, clip-on pens and friendship bracelets of the own creations. Thanks to Hilary and Grandma Joyce for helping out and for putting up with all our hair-brained ideas! "Nerd"alie loved her party!!!!