Kaleigh's Birthday with Friends!
Monday, December 7th is Kaleigh's 11th Birthday! So Saturday she celebrated with her friends and Sunday she celebrated with her family (more on that next post). So basically I stole Steve V's daughter Lauren's party idea and everyone had a blast...well, almost everyone. We started out with an American Girl craft as an ice breaker (lets wait for everyone to show up). For anyone around the age of 40 you may remember making bracelets out of gum wrappers, you fold the papers and make a zig zag patterned bracelet. The American Girl company put out a kit to make them with really cute paper. So the girls did that for about 40 minutes and I copied the instructions for them to finish at home. Then we walked to the Thrift store around the corner. It is only a block away so it took us all of about 5 minutes to walk there. Then I gave each of the girls $10.00 (looking back $7 would have been better) to find an outfit. They ran off to look except for one. She stuck by me due to the fact that she is not part of Kaleigh's school friends and was a little lost shopping. I don't think she has ever been given free reign in a clothing store! It took a while for us to help her find something. After the thrift store we picked up Pizza and went back to the house. The girls had Pizza and talked a bit, then it was time for the fashion show... as you can see, I taped lights to the floor to make a runway and the girls loved it! We had 4 models while 4 watched, and then they switched. You can see the groups that posed together and one of Kaleigh with her "Scream" shirt. Anyone who has ever seen Michael Jackson's "Scream" video with his sister, Janet, will recognize the shirt. This was hilarious since the runway walking music was all MJ! After the fashion show the girls had Chocolate Fondue with a bunch of different yummy things. I don't know that I would do that one again, it was a lot of work and very messy. I wouldn't have thought 11 year old girls could be that messy! But I think all the girls had a good time!
2 girls had to leave then and Kaleigh then opened her gifts and the rest got picked up or taken home at that time. I was exhausted, but it was worth it...I think. : )
3 comments:
I can't wait to get home and show this to Lauren. She'll love it. Your group took a more glamorous route with their styling.
You're brave to go the fondue route! I remember when it was big in the 70's----if you lost your food in the fondue you had to kiss somebody (these were co-ed parties. It WAS the '70's after all) Bob would drop stuff on purpose. Perv.
Ok, notice the fountain. All girls no kissing...ewww. Did you get chocolate all over each other?
I bet if I told Kaleigh that she would be all.."yuck, mom, that is so gross!"
Heehee. : D
Enjoy the photos Lauren! Thanks again for the idea!
That was sort of the whole point I think, the EEEWW factor. It was real incentive to keep your food well skewered.
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