Party Time!

I love my birthday. I think everyone should have a super special day at least once a year. Usually my birthday is celebrated for at least a week. I'm always telling Kevin "I'm going to get a pedicure today for my birthday" or "I scheduled us a trip to Disneyland for my birthday". Seriously, I always have things to do and give the reason that it's for my birthday...girls night out, out to dinner, a stop at the ice cream shop. I just love it! Maybe it's just the only time of year where I have an excuse to indulge. This year was no different. I've already mentioned a few things I did for my birthday (and our Disneyland trip is coming up muy soon!). One more thing I did this year, that I think will just have to become a yearly tradition it was soooo much fun, was a party at my house for February birthday girls in my ward and neighborhood.

Jessica M. helped out and we had such a great time. I was originally going to only invite girls I knew (imagine that!) but Jessica is such a sweet person she suggested I invite the girls in the ward I didn't know. So I did, and I am so glad. I made some invitations and Jessica deliverd them to each girl. (Well, I gave Jana hers because I wanted to!) Everyone was invited to come over for dinner and cake at 6:00pm on the 21st. 12 girls were invited and there ended up being 9 of us.

I made Cafe Rio style salads for dinner. My mom called about 5:15 and of course I was stressing because Asher needed to eat, his diaper was leaking, Rylan was being crazy, and I still had lots to do for the dinner. Luckily she lives close so she came over and made the rice while I fed Asher. She also chopped up our lettuce and shredded the chicken. What a lifesaver! By 6:00 I was mostly ready, just had to cook the tortillas. I had kept Kevin busy all day cleaning, buying balloons, helping decorate (I really didn't decorate much, but he did nearly all of what I had in mind) and when girls started showing up I kicked the boys out of the house. Kev and the babes went to my mom's house. (My mom brought Asher home just before 9:00. She said Kevin wanted to finish watching "My Cousin Vinny" and Asher was hungry so she offered to bring him over. Either Kevin was really into that movie, or he just didn't want to be in a house full of girls!!) Of course Kev had to put on Planet Earth before he left. I tried to tell him that wasn't really a girl thing to watch, but he insisted!

While I was cooking up the tortillas we all just chatted. After we ate dinner we played a game of Apples to Apples sitting on the floor. Jana won, but I was close! She reached 10 cards first, but there were several of us close behind. I'm just glad everyone had at least one card! I have this mixed personality where I'm competitive and I really want to win, but I want everyone else to win too so we all can have a good time. Of course you don't have to win to have fun, right? Anyways, after the game we had a chocolate chip cake that Jessica brought which was yummy and beautiful. Then it was more talking before it was time for the partying to end.

I really had such a fun night and I'm looking for any excuse to have another party at my house. Thanks to everyone who came and thanks to Jessica for all your help. And of course thanks to my hubby and my mom for helping, too :)
While Kevin and I were cleaning and getting things ready, Kevin set up a movie for Rylan in our closet!