Holly's family has a super fun summer park day schedule.  Every week they meet at a different park  and play for a few hours.  Everyone brings some lunch and treats to share.  Kids and adults alike have a great time.  They were kind enough to invite us to park days and we went as often as we could.  One park day Kyleigh decided we needed to have a party for everyone at our house.  She and a few of the girls planned it all out.  They had the idea to make invitations for it at the following park day.  They made assignments for the invitation supplies.  Kyleigh wanted to start calling and reminding them of their assignments 5 minutes after park day was over that week.  I was able to convince her to wait until the day before park day, but only after lots of coercing.  The next week all of the older girls sat under part of the playground equipment and crafted invitations.  It was super cute.  We decided on a day and got the invitations out to everyone. 

For our party we set up our famous slip n slide (black visqueen with a sprinkler and dish soap) on the back yard.  We made rocket dogs (hot dogs on a skewer baked with bread dough wrapped around it and a triangle tip of cheese at the top) for lunch.  I had found some huge inflatable boxing gloves for boxing.  We also set up a marble racer off the deck.  I cut a noodle (flotation device) in half and you raced marbles down the grooved middle.  We also had a make your own bubble wand station with lots of bubble juice. 

The kids had a great time, and I was so happy to do something to say thanks for inviting us to park days all summer.