I never knew lumberjacking could be so fun

So for the last 3 weeks or so my roommate ashlee has been fantasizing about the perfect birthday party, which would be lumber jack themed.

She came home (to logan) one day after being at her real home (in springville) and said that for the long 2 hour drive she thought about nothing but her birthday party, and that she had thought of the perfect theme.... Lumberjack. If you know anything about Ashlee, this really is the perfect theme for her. So we started discussing it (meaning she spouted off all the great ideas she had come up with; like ax throwing, flap jacks, wood chopping, fake facial hair, lmber jack pinata, pin the beard on the lumber jack and all thing flannel; and we just laughed and told her what great ideas they were and that we really have to follow through with this party) It became a regular topic of conversation over the next couple weeks, but nothing was ever really done about it except making a facebook event and inviting hundreds of people to it (that was when we knew that it was going to really happen) Thursday friday and saturday were spent preparing for it...

saturday went something like this: I woke up and wandered upstairs to find ashlee sitting in the midst of chopped up felt. She had started to cut out all the fake beards and mustaches. Tera and i had to get a bunch of stuff done in the morning but the afternoon was all dedicated to ashlee's party. we moved all the furniture around to create some room (and its a good things we did cause so many people showed up) i went to the DI to buy a flannel shirt. (I found it in the guys section, so of course it needed to be sewed in a little.) and then we ran some shopping errands...

1 10lb bag of pancake mix
4 bottles of syrup
90 styrofoam cups
90 plastic plates
1 pirate pinata to be turned into a lumber jack
1 roll of double sided mounting tape to stick fake beards to our faces.



Ashlee and i skipped the basketball game and proceeded to make somewhere around 250 'flapjacks' in a little under 2 hours.



People started showing up while we were still cooking, after 20 people showed up we broke the pinata and the people steadily started to flow into our house. We guessed that we probably had around 100 people come. out of those 100 only 10(ish) were not wearing flannel and only a hand full would not stick a fake mustache to their face. I'd have to say i think we pulled it off really well. It was probably the best party i've ever been to. We should throw them more often.