Alyssa's Birthday Party

 Alyssa was able to talk us into doing a friend party for her birthday this year because apparently the 10th birthday is a big birthday being two digits and all. Alyssa doesn't like cake, so Danny brought home a chocolate fountain from work and we went with a chocolate theme. Here is the birthday girl before the guests arrived.

We started off with a guess how many M&M's are in the jar game(we also did chocolate covered raisins). Second game was one where they got to taste four different chocolate bars and try to guess what it was. Next we had a paper full of scrambled chocolates that they got to try to unscramble.  After that, we did 2 minute to win it style games(an Oreo stack and the one where you have to get the Oreo from you forehead to your mouth without using hands). Then there was a relay race where they had to move a whopper from one bowl to another using chopsticks. Alyssa was the champion at that game. The last game was one where they had to roll doubles and then put on a hat, gloves, and mittens and try to open and cut a giant chocolate bar using a fork and knife. Here are a couple of pictures of the girls during the games.

 After games, they got to visit the chocolate fountain. We did strawberries, marshmallows, pretzels, and rice crispy treats.

 Everyone had a lot of fun and the chocolate fountain was delicious. Here is the last picture of Alyssa before she turned ten.

We celebrated her actual birthday by going to the Japanese steak house for the third year in a row.