What I actually did:

took the kids to school, ran to the bakery to pick up Ben's birthday school snack, took the snack up to school, got a lego set for Ben from his brother, P.O. bought cupcakes, got 3 birthday gifts, got feed corn for a party game, got decorations at Party City and the Dolar Store, Ordered 3 quiches and 2 pies and get 4 cupcakes, wrapped gifts, pick up kids from school, met daddy for lunch at Macaroni Grill, took the kids to the Zoo for Ben's birthday, took the kids to Wu Shu, went to starbucks and drank a bunch of coffee, had pizza at home and movie at home for Benny's bday, bathed kids and put them to bed, worked on house, went grocery shopping for the Saturday morning brunch birthday party, had my babysitter and construction guy over from midnight till 4am... decorating the house with a bunch of bats and butterflies, etc making apple pies and pumpkin cakes, and egg casserole, clean the bathrooms, cleaning up the back yard, fill the little swim pools with feed corn and spider rings, organizing the toys in the basement, finding all the folding chairs and tv tables and card tables, cleaning up art room and set up the kids activity, straightening up the house and set it up for the party. And everything was lovely.