party time :)

One of my favorite parts of being a mom is throwing birthday parties. I love them. I think all of my kids have had way too many. It's just so much fun. I never over do it... I'm just too tradition. In fact I hate over done birthday parties- get real people- let em' be kids. Kids are just naturally so fun.

So for Chloe's 12th we did go a bit big time & took all these cuties to the local pizza place. (Although the have such a fantastic dinner special it wasn't even that expensive.)

12- is a big, okay huge deal in our church. It's when youth move from the little kid Sunday School- primary- to the big kid youth group- Young Women's. Very, very exciting for sure. Young women's involves- girl's camp, Wednesday night activities, monthly combined activities with the boys, firesides, & eventually dances. Oh it's big stuff.Chloe informed me that she & her friends were recently referred to as "the nerds" by one of the more "popular girls"... gotta love jr high.

I wonder if the "popular girls" were out eating pizza tonight?

Chloe has great taste- thus her favorite pizza matches mine- Margarita yumo! I ordered more traditional ones thinking this would be too much for 12 year olds- but it was the first to go! Brett & I sat quietly at the table right next to theirs & just had a great dinner watching them. Not bad.

After pizza & pop we went home & had peach cobbler- after kristy went to a lot of trouble getting her chocolate fountain together for us to borrow--- sorry kristy. Chloe couldn't decide & when the girls got here we took a vote.

these girls are so much fun. Chloe forgot she had that bow in her hair. I thought she knew it was there. (the white one on top of her head) On the way home from dropping off all the girls- she reached up & felt it- oh my - I've had a bow on my head all night- hee hee funny stuff.

right after pizza we split the girls into teams & sent them on an old fashioned scavenger hunt. did you used to do those at slumber parties? they were all the rage when I was a kid. Anyhow, I hope I don't get phone calls about sending girl's out to stranger's homes. (we had a lot of rules) It was so funny to see them running all over the neighborhood & they really loved it. one of the girls came back & said - "we thought the zucchini was going to be really hard to get - but we got that one right away." oh ya- who doesn't want to get rid of a couple of zucchini this time of year?
the night ended up being a "Murder in the Dark" marathon. Again, I hope I don't get phone calls? They played it over & over. It was pitch black except for the flash light in the center of the table when I took the picture & blinded them with my flash.... they were kind enough to let trent & his little buddy play the last two games before I took them home.

Fun times - Great kids

*do you like birthday parties?