I am trying to plan 2 birthday parties for this week. My son turns 8 on Friday and my daughter turns 4 on Sunday. Ya it sucks 2 days apart and 3 weeks after Christmas. We just don’t have the money to plan much and not because we overspent for Christmas but because there just isn’t much money to go around these days. Jake, my son wants a Transformer’s party with 10 of his friends from school. Madison want a Hanna Montana party with the  entire world on the invite list. I usually do a simple family party with dinner and cake but I guess this year things are going to be a bit different. Kourtnee, my oldest has agreed to host the big boy party, it’s not really my thing and for Madison’s special day we will have the family some over. So that was actually the easy part to figure out now I have to figure out how to pay for it with no money!

I found a slamming deal at Wal-Mart. They have on clearance all there Christmas gifts for 75% off. I bought Madison 4 different Hanna Montana gift sets like brush-n-comb, bath-n-body and make-up sets for less than $10.00. She’s done! We will bake the cake and have a simple spaghetti dinner for the family.

Now Jake’s Party is another thing all on it’s own. He has never had a friend party. What do I plan for 10 boys? Hubby wants to buy him a new BB gun for $30 from the bargain basement at Cabela’s, which is a good deal and a good gift as it gets the boys out of the house so mommy can work. Jake got so much for Christmas that he really doesn’t need anything so that will be it. I can’t afford to buy a theme cake so we are going to bake cupcakes with Transformer paper liner’s.

I got a great deal on candy from Wal-Green’s, all their Christmas candy was on clearance for less than a buck a bag DEAL!! So with the deal on candy we will make paper treat sacks with a Transformer sticker on the front. With card stock I already have on hand, we are making hand made invitations with a Transformers sticker on it. We have the Transformer’s movie so we will play that and Kourtnee gets to figure out the games and decorations. She is actually pretty crafty. One year she made paper party hats and decorated the house with left over Christmas ribbon and posters for the kid’s party.

If you have any suggestions or websites please help us out! We only have a few days left to get this all planned out.[ad#ad-6]