The Kid Wash!!

Okay, I love summers now since I am a stay at home mom because I get to spend time with the kiddos and I don't have a set schedule to keep.  However, my children were born May, June, and July so the summers are full of birthdays for us.  We have tried having separate parties but we wear our friends out coming to parties all summer so I usually try to have one big party in the middle of the summer.  This year I had just decided to have kids over to swim and Eli had requested a visit from the firetruck.  Of course Eli saw Cars 2 last week and decided he wanted a Lightning  Mcqueen party at the last minute.  There ended up being Cars cupcakes, a fire truck, and swimming, UH wait no swimming... yeah the swimming, well, there would have been swimming except our pool turned out looking like a green swamp the day before the party.  So plan B went into effect.  Plan B is always fly by the seat of my pants and see what my brain dreams up at the last minute.  I had been on the internet one day and saw a cute idea of making a sprinkler thing out of PVC pipe and then saw an even better idea of a sprinkler that you could run through like a car wash.  So hence comes the "Kid Wash".  Of course I had showed it to Brandon weeks ago and said isn't this cool and all I got was a uh huh and he kept watching T.V.  but on the morning of the party I showed it to him and he said I could make that in 30 minutes. I said "So why don't ya get started, otherwise the kids are going to be really hot and really bored.  He went to the store got what he needed and in about 30 minutes the "KID WASH" was born.  Yay!! It turned out to be a hit, the kids had fun and they didn't have to swim in the green swamp.  Thanks to all our friends that came out to play and endure the hot day with us.  My kids have the party bug like Brandon and I do.  The Potts all love a good party and we all love to have a house full of guests.  So now the kids are all a year older... Ellie is 10, Ethan is 6 and Eli is 4.  We have enjoyed another summer and school will be starting back in a few weeks.  I'm sooo blessed to have this time with my kiddos because these birthdays keep coming, and mine keep coming too. Mama loves you, Ellie, Ethan and Eli. You will always be my babies!!