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Saturday, July 16, 2005
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Surprise, thy name is Cara
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Last night, I hosted a party for my friend's 18th birthday. I've been planning on it since about April, but because she frequents this blog, I was unable to say anything about it in so public a place. (Now you know the reason for my lack of posts as the date came closer.)
She was definitely surprised. The rest of the guests arrived and we stood talking until 7pm when Cara was supposed to come. She surprised us a little by showing up ten minutes early. All the girls hid by the side of the house while I went to steer. Cara pulled up. I gave her a hug. "Wait till you see my arbor, Cara. James has it all finished." "Oh! Well let's leave my stuff here until later then." We walked her over towards the arbor and just as she turned the corner of the house, well, you probably know the rest. She was definitely surprised.
We all put on leis and flowered ankle bracelets while we ate cheese curls and drank lemonade. I made her an ice cream cake. It was flavored with lemonade. It was very tart. And very pink. Everyone loves ice cream cake. So then we ate our cake and our cheese curls along with bubble gum, candy necklaces and lemonade. Danielle decided she wanted to sit in her favorite chair, which was on the front porch, so we all moved in that direction. Cara opened her presents (and Danny opened one I gave her a little early). I kept hearing the phone ring, so I went inside to answer it but by the time I got there, it had stopped ringing. I hate when that happens. I found out later that it was James calling from the Davises' asking if he could go for ice cream.
Everybody came inside when it got too dark to see very well outside. We brought all the food of course, and played Imaginiff. We didn't make it the whole way through the game. (I think it was all the coffee breaks and stopping to change clothes. ;) Melissa left to go home at around 9 or 9:30. I don't remember what we did for the next hour. I remember everyone watching as everyone else took a turn looking at Cara's scrapbook. Then Derek showed up at 10:00 to bring James home and pick Manda up. He took a turn with the scrapbook too. :)
After being banished to the tent in the backyard, Lauren, Danny, Cara and I stayed up only for about a half hour before deciding we really were too tired to go on much longer and calling it a night. |
posted by cori
7/16/2005 09:33:00 PM
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Leslie, what a sweet thing to do for my sweet and lovely daughter.
She has been so blessed with friendships!
Love,
Mrs. Horn
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Les,
I can't tell you how much the party and weekend spent with you meant to me. My heart is full with the love of dear friends. Oh, how I will miss you all.
For anyone who has not yet seen the beautiful scrapbook Leslie gave me, you'll have to come on over! What a treasure chest of memories. What an incredible, never-to-be-forgotten gift.
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Pink ice-cream cake with lemonade! Oooh, Aaahh, Eeeee! Yhis blog makes me hungry!
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Leave it to the guys to elaborate on the food.
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Leslie, what a sweet thing to do for my sweet and lovely daughter.
She has been so blessed with friendships!
Love,
Mrs. Horn