Amber opened her presents from us on Sunday when Bret came home for about an hour. She loved her new body pillow. She also got some new bedding and a bunch of new Cd's and some movies, and books. She got a new digital camera, and a hair dryer, so she'd stop taking mine, and some nice jewelry from her friends. 
Ben and Sam were goofing off and wrestling on the couch the whole time she was opening her presents, I guess girl presents aren't worth their attention. They have been quite insane lately. 
Saturday was the big party! She invited about 20 people, girls and boys both. We had about 10 girls and 2 boys that could come. Which was fine with me because any more and it wouldn't been a bit to much. The two boys Dallon and Preston were friends from church and live here in Harlan. I think they were loving all the girl attention. Dallon, who just turned 14 last month, but physically could pass for 17, was the center of attention. It didn't hurt that he is cute, and very funny. Preston, who's a year younger than Dallon, and is a bit shy, seemed to come out of his shell a bit. He had a great time playing the games and was laughing with everyone else. Never quite seen him like that before. I didn't take many pictures of the party I didn't want to bother them while they were playing games and eating. You know, being that kind of mother. So I just snapped one of her blowing out the candles.
One of Amber's presents was a pedicure here in town, so we did that at 10 in the morning, Ben had to be picked up by his coach at 11 for two soccer games in Logan and Woodbine. So my pedicure was a short one while Amber got the deluxe. She loved it. So with her pretty toes we came home and decorated the house for the party. She had a Hollywood theme, with a red carpet coming up the stairs to the front door, and lots of silver and gold balloons with Hollywood written on them, and we had glitz and bling all over the living room and dining room. I took my boys over to a friends house, Allyson, so they would be out of the way and picked up the pizza. The guests started coming around 5:00. Annette brought her daughter Kelsey, Tashina, and Shya around 7:00, and stayed till the end. That was fun for me! It's always fun to have my best friend around. I bought a ton of food, 5 large pizzas, and tons of pop, different kinds of chips and dip,and made a punch for them and had lots of tasty treats for the fondue pot filled with yummy chocolate! Of course we had the cake and ice cream, which I wasn't sure they wanted after eating all the other stuff, but they did. They started out playing Catch Phrase, then Apples to Apples, then opened the presents, then we did the cake thing and then they ate and ate and started the movie Avatar in Bret's Trophy room on the big screen. They stopped it about half way through and all went outside to run around and play games in the dark. Being out in the country it was dark. The highlight of the evening was when Dallon went down the curvy tube slide out on our play set and got a very wet and muddy bottom. The rain we've been having had pooled at the bottom and my boys have been throwing dirt in it. He came in and said he needed to call his mom to bring him some clean pants. They girls loved it. So Allyson came over and brought my little boys home, which I quickly put to bed, and she stayed for little bit, so it was really fun for me too, I had my two good friends here as well to talk to and have fun with. Everyone was gone around 11, which was a good time, I cleaned up a bit, then went to bed. It was fun, a lot of work prior to the party, but worth it. Amber had a great time and so did everyone else. A lot of the girls were saying it was the best party they'd been too. Which made my daughter very happy.
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