Through our ULTIMATE Birthday Party Giveaway contest in October, readers shared ideas from their most memorable kid's birthday party. Great ideas here! Our readers are very creative. Enjoy.

February is the month of love and what better way to show love to your spouse than by spending quality time together? Through our Sweetheart Getaway, MetroFamily asked our readers to share their best ideas for spending time with their significant other.  Whether you are seeking an exciting night on the town or a romantic evening at home, you are sure to find some great ideas here!

Crossings Christian School’s recently implemented Oklahoma City’s first MicroSociety, a widely acclaimed program where children create a mini-society in their school complete that bridges the gap between classroom theory and real-world application.

Draper Park Christian Church conducted their third annual summer reading program. The certificates and prizes will be given out Sunday, August 16, to the 38 children who participated this year. We started the program to introduce children to reading as early as possible. Our reading program includes children from age 0 - 17 years. We encourage parents to read to their children and prizes are given to these children as well as the readers. Our reading program theme this year was "Be a Home Run Reader." The readers were required to read books located in our library or books of the Bible. We feel the program was very successful, in that, children really enjoyed the challenge and competition. The lowest amount of books which could be read was 4 and one of our readers read 159 books. We are very proud of our youth and feel that they will be better prepared to start back to school because they have been reading during the summer months. Statistically, students forget about 40%-60% of what they learned during the school year if they do not continue to read and learn during the summer. We also are attempting to get young readers to learn values which will carry them through the rest of their lives.

Ashli Takashima and Rebekah Davenport officially kicked off their quest to repeat as Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) National Champions in Tae Kwon Do. Last year both girls won their first gold medals in the AAU's National Tae Kwon Do Championships. On February 7th, the two teenagers officially kicked off the sparring season with their team from Combat Martial Arts Academy (CMAA) at the U.S.Central Tae Kwon Do Association's 23rd Annual Oklahoma Invitational. They both left the tournament with first place awards for sparring.

Nine-year-old Victoria Vickers is a fourth grader at Western Village Academy. She was one of only five Oklahomans to qualify for this year's national event. Victoria is the state champion in her age group for the long jump. Her record jump: 6-feet, 6 inches.

Since 2005, Combat Martial Arts has had at least one student win a gold medal at the Amateur Athletic Union’s (AAU) National Tae Kwon Do Championships. This year, instructor Denny Kelly was hoping to build on that history. His hopes were realized as his students brought home five gold medals and two bronze from the weeklong tournament held in Madison, Wisconsin.

Christian Life School in Moore recently had a Father and Family fishing tournament. The summer Discovery Camp children and their families participated....

My three children participated in Oklahoma Children's Theatre (OCT) camps during the summer 2007 sessions. Director Lyn Adams and the staff were amazing and my children are spoiled for life as, in their opinion, all other camps pale in comparison to the fun and creative energy Oklahoma Children's Theatre provides.

Ten students from the McTeggart Irish Dancers of Oklahoma are traveling to Atlanta, Georgia to compete in the Southern Region Oireachtas Irish dance competition on December 1. The Oireachtas is a qualifying event to determine which dancers will participate in the 2008 North American and World Championships.