Party Time!

Thur was Rachel's 11th bday--I was able to get FREE cupcakes from my albertsons run along with 15 other cakes...so i took the cupcakes to her class, and one cake to sarah's class, one to anna's, one to Tracy's grandkids each--SO FUN! I was even able to get a cake for our "family party" and one for rachel's "friend party" can you say SCORE!!!!!
The day started out fun--however after school things quickly changed...rachels friends were coming in & out of our home telling us there was a tornado in Perris (which is RIGHT NEAR US!)but we thought they meant Paris...so we didnt pay much attention to them(i quickly made a run thru the news stations & nothing was on)..they came in like 3 separate times, Sarah was getting nervous and we told her HELLO paris is HALF way around the world-why all the craziness!! then about 30 minutes later my sister heidi calls asking "oh my goodness are you guys all okay???" WHY do people keep asking us!??! whats going on?? she said "what--you're having a tornado!! its all over the news!" so we flip it on and boom there it is all over every channel what in the world???? turns out the tornado was 1 mile from our house---it flipped some trains..


this is the train that is on our frwy off ramp..

this is in LA...it hailed so much it looked like snow..

i had to add this only because 2 days prior to this it was like 105!!


They were telling everyone in our area to come inside & go to the 1st floor of our home, center of our house, lay flat, cover your head with a pillow & put a blanket over you incase of flying debri...so i had each girl bring down their pillow/blanket--we had a quick practice--then just stayed glued to the news for 2 hours!! i was wearing cute high sandals, so i quickly changed into sweats & sneakers & made sure we all had jackets close to us & brought down jons medications..

I took some photos myself of our views--there's also the news choppers going over our house--






It all worked out & we were okay but HOW CRAZY IS THAT????????????????????

Okay so back up to wed: rachel came running upstairs to tell me what had happened that day...she has liked this boy parker L all year long so her friends went up to him & asked "do you like Rachel?" he said "no" so they went to another boy she likes Cole & asks "do you like Rachel?" he said "yes" they asked "do you want her as your gfriend?" he said "yes" so they hurried over to Rachel & told her that Cole likes her & wants to be her bfriend---oh the days of elementary!! so she was ALLLLLL excited to TELL ME about it which i LOVEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!! I reminded her that she can have a bfriend but the rules are no dating & no kissing--she said she wanted to tell dad but that "dad always gets mad at her" which i will say jon kind of cuts her off and does the whole roll eye thing..i keep telling him to try to be involved because she's trying to figure out now if your going to talk to her about any boy stuff..and if you dont even PRETEND that you care..she'll pick that up and not tell you ANYTHING..so i encouraged her to tell dad that he'd be excited for her as well..so she came down & she was telling him so i mouthed to him BE NICE!!! he winked..he said he was excited for her & that this was a big day for her--but reminded her of the rules (no dating/no kissing)--so im glad she feels like she'll talk to jon too..
SO the next day is her bday she comes home to tell me what happend & that "cole gave me a heart necklace for my bday" im like WHAT!! DETAILS!! she totally thought it was funny that i wanted to know EVERY little detail..like what did he say, how did he say it, how big/small was the box, was it wrapped, what color etc etc etc..she kept saying MOM your so funny!! so he came up to her she says and said "Hi rachel I got you this gift for your bday, & i got it at the Riverside Plaza" & gave her a hug..she said thanks and quickly the herd of girls swarmed in to give there "oohs & ahhs & your so lucky's"....
so her day was off to a good start..& apparently now the previous boy Parker L now likes her..hmmm..days of our lives continues!

so after the "storm" i decided to start her family celebration-it was filled with fun gifts! my friend Wendy from Vegas is SOOO good to our family & purchases their bday gifts for the year and mails it to me..i told her rachel REALLy wants gift cards for "cute clothes" (remember the "i dont have ANYTHING to wear!"...so she got lots of gift cards to different places, a handball, an MP3 player & a cell phone..





she has just one of those tracfones & we got her only a 60 minute card to go with it...she FREAKED when she saw the cell phone (because she thinks is a REAL DEAL)its kind of a nice thing, the phone was only 10 dollars

& the minutes were only 20 & there are no contracts or monthly fee's---she has LOTS of "rules & regulations" about the phone with her parents..& its SO NICE to have the MP3 player & phone to take away when she's having "issues"...

So now we are onto Friday & its her "friend party" I needed to go pick up the pizza so we loaded up & hit the store to get soda, then over to pizza hut to grab our pizza's--




i had to giggle at all the cell phone "usage" going on...they were just playing the games on their phones but SERIOUSLY so funny--everyone in line looked at me smiled & wished me good luck with all the girls!



So the schedule for the party was eat pizza then go on a bday scavenger hunt in which i gave them a qtip & they had to go door to door saying "we're having a bday scavenger hunt, do you have anything bigger or better then this?" SO SO SO fun for them to do--they girls LOVED it...


I thought of you melinda (well mainly jason) when we got this! oh SWEET is that!

i followed them IN MY CAR cuz it was SOOO dang cold & enjoyed this little treat thanks to becca (she good mailed me yesterday!)


i let the girls ding dong ditch a few "cute boys"--then came home, cake/ice cream,

followed by gift openings:




what is WITH her "paris hilton" poses???? GEESH!

the last is from Kristen--she had sold purses a while back & rachel spotted this one HOPING one day rachel could buy it from her--she opened it up and SCREAMED!! she was SO DANG excited!!! THANK YOU KRISTEN!! i wish you were hear to actually her her scream!!!! seriously-how nice is kristen!!
then we played 2 truths & a lie--that was fun for them (of course each one was about "who they liked")too funny...
then i let them use a TON of free make up i got from albertsons



& we did before & after photos..

uh not the greatest photo of rachel--oh well!







so now they are watching a movie--
all in all a GREAT success & they all kept telling me i had such fun ideas (seriously i made up the schedule YESTERDAY!!!)& was a "fun mom" -they were a fun group & seemed to have had a really fun time--