Last night we hosted a Super Bowl party for 26 friends–11 of whom were five and under! We were a little unsure of how everyone would fit into our house, but it worked well…Derek dragged our big living room couch downstairs so that the family room had more seating, and we put a space heater out on the back porch all afternoon so that the kids could spread out in there. I made homemade pizza, breadsticks, and salad for everyone (and way overestimated on the pizza–we literally have 3 1/2 pizzas leftover in our fridge right now), and everybody else brought drinks, snacks, and desserts.
The dads mostly watched the game, the moms mostly hung out upstairs, and the kids ate quickly and ran around gleefully until cookie decorating time!
I was so excited to find football themed cookie cutters at Michael’s last week, so we decorated footballs, jerseys, helmets, and pennants with green and yellow frosting. Go Packers! (Poor Sam was the only real Steelers fan in the group!) 
Ellie took Elizabeth under her wing and sat next to her and helped her frost and decorate her own cookie, and let me tell you, my girl was in sugar heaven!
Then we calmed the kids down with football coloring pages while we cleaned up.
Almost everybody had to leave at halftime, but Anthony and Heidi (and Anthony’s mom and baby Sarah) stayed on ’til the end to celebrate the Packers’ victory! I am pretty tired, but it was totally worth it to get to host so many of our State College friends at one time!
