Katelyn's Party

From Colleen's Perspective on, "...the party of the century at 604 Forest Grove Ave!"

We had 18 kids (includes ours) at the party, and 13 spent the night. So that was 10 extra girls in the house!

The kids did go swimming, all of them went in but two I think. It was cold. About 65 degrees air temp and 75 degrees water. They loved it.

Then we ate pizza (we ordered way too much, we thought more parents were going to stay (of those who didn’t stay the night…wrong!), are some awesome cake and ice cream, then opened presents.

There were a lot of presents when you have 18 kids that makes for a lot of presents! After all that we watched Camp Rock and made friendship bracelets.

Kim and Courtney showed up at the door ringing the door bell several hundred times and asked for Katie. Katie and all her friends went out on the porch and was serenaded by them with a fantastic rendition of Happy Birthday followed by the attack of the silly string! It was awesome, girls screaming everyone laughing. It was totally unexpected. They crashed a slumber party. It was perfect… something you would have totally done!

We all came back in, watched some more of the movie, finished the friendship bracelets, watched another Hannah Montana movie and then finally quieted down. We all finally fell asleep around 1am. It was a long fun night.

I was up and showered by around 7am, had pancake sundaes for breakfast and then had a polarbear swim in the pool. This time the water 74 degrees but the air was 50 degrees. They loved it. It was great.

I think Katie will remember this party forever. It was great, the only thing that would have made it better was for you to be home! Katie held back some great tears opening your gift, she loves the horse book, and read and reread what you wrote to her several times. The laughed and cried at her chicken webkinz, it’s called Chickadee! You made another awesome impression on her! Great job!

I took Katie back to cheerleading today, she did tons better, had a great time and now loves it. She did fantastic. Her teacher noticed her hard work and pointed it out to everyone. I think she’s gonna stick with it!

BTW: the boys acted like perfect gentlemen and had a great time too! They loved watching TV alone in my room… star wars the clone wars the animated series started last night… they too were in heaven!

Colleen is an amazing lady!!!