September 14 - First Sleepover Party

Last night was Jillian's birthday party. Her first ever SLEEPOVER party!! Thirteen girls were invited. All of them came but eight total spent the night including Jillian (first slumber party for all of them) and the rest were picked up at 9pm. The party started at 6pm and we had pizza and cake, opened presents, had a dance party (the girls all wrote down their favorite song and that was our playlist) and they spent a lot of time running around the house, chasing each other, screaming. After the first first group of girls left at 9pm, the rest changed into their pj's and we set up air mattresses downstairs. After the requisite "jumping on the air mattresses like a bunch of little monkeys", the girls watched Rio 2, ate an evening snack, brushed their teeth and then went to bed. When I say "went to bed" I mean they stayed up and talked and giggled until everyone fell asleep around 1.30am. In case you were wondering, no, they did not sleep in and were in fact up at 5.30am! I made them cinnamon buns for breakfast and we had another dance party starting around 6.30am. What an adventure!! Happy birthday Jillian!!  

Party time!

Love these girls!

This is my favorite picture. Jacqui, the little girl on the left, was deathly afraid of dogs just a week ago. She is in our GS troop and came over for a meeting, she was shaking like a leaf and crying. Bella and Apollo worked their retriever magic and she is now good with dogs. In fact, Bella slept with Jacqui and Guinevere all night!!

The dogs were in heaven with all the attention

Happy Birthday Jillian, we love you!!