Happy Birthday, Princess

 So the princess turns is 14 today. Hard to comprehend. Time really does fly. Happy Birthday, sweetheart!

 So when I asked princess what she wanted to do for her birthday she said she wanted to have a party. Now, I am thinking a few close girl friends for a sleepover or pizza and movies. No, she wanted a full blown out, boy/girl party. I knew hubby was going out of town, but big brother would be here, so I figured why not? She invited everyone through Instagram. Yes, you read correctly. Instagram. I was a bit nervous with this, but thought it will be fine. Getting closer to the day of the party, which was this past Friday night, I only knew of 7 guests for sure. Awesome. Good number to handle. Well, party time was 7:00 pm, food was ready, drinks were ready and music was cued up ready to go. At about 6:45, the first guests showed up and they kept coming until about 7:30. Well, I stopped counting when the number hit 26. I did not want to know after that. Yikes! We had all sorts of kids here. I thought, it will still be fine as they were hanging outside on the carport. The music was blaring and everyone was having a great time.

Of course, at about 8:15 it started thundering and lightening and the party was brought inside. 

 Wow! Teenagers are really loud. I mean, really loud. A couple of the kids even commented on the noise level. They asked me if I minded the noise and I said everyday, yes, for one night, no. Pictured above is everyone singing happy birthday to princess. That was really awesome and I wish I had a video. Princess does not like being the center of attention, but everyone insisted she get in the middle so they could sing to her. They then had a silly string fight, in the house. I started to stop, but they were having so much fun, I figured why not? Silly string is easy to clean up by the way. Just let it dry first. The next portion of the evening was the glow light dance party. 

 I bought some glow bracelets and necklaces for everyone to wear and they thought it would be cool to turn all the lights off, clear the furniture, crank the music and start dancing.

 I took this one with the flash on so you could see what was going on in my living room! So much fun. They even let me join in! Thank goodness there are no photos of that. Thankfully about 9:45 it stopped raining so I kicked everyone out again. It was getting way too stuffy and club like in my house. It was now time for Truth or Dare. I set down a few rules, such as no Ding Dong Ditching. I have fabulous neighbors who tolerated the dance party going on at the house, so I did not want to press my luck. Believe it or not, at this point I sat down and started reading. I sorta spied on the goings on outside just to make sure everything was running smoothly, of course. 

This is one of my favorite photos of the night. The girl on the right is one of my favorite people ever as is her fabulous momma. The guy in the middle I had the pleasure of meeting that night and he is a doll.

 Finally, about 10:30, everyone started to leave, but not before we got the obligatory group photo.

 Some people had already gone home at this point, but you get the idea. It was a fabulous party. Everyone was well behaved and super sweet. 

 So, Happy Birthday again, Princess!  Love you

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