Wow, I can't believe three months have past since my last blog. I haven't been as diligent with this blog thing as I would have liked. Renee keeps reminding me of this; if only there were eight days in a week!Although, there have been many momentous events that have taken place over these past months, I will start with my girls first sleepover. Wow! I am still recuperating from this one. Over spring break, I had promised the girls we would have a girls slumber party. (since Marcus was going on a three day pioneer trek with the youth at church) I wanted their 1st slumber party to be perfect and ALL about them. So I took the girls [Renee, Alyssa, Lexi, Janaia, and Courtney] to see the Hanna Montana Movie; to my surprise the movie was better than I thought it would be. All the girls loved it. Later on, we came back to make homemade pizza and each girl got to make their own ice cream sundae. I had bought about 6 different toppings and 3 different ice cream flavors [sure to please everyone] right! NOPE!! Alyssa was upset; I didn't buy mint chocolate chip. Well for the past 4 1/2 years this child's favorite ice cream has been strawberry. Well not today. Needless to say, it took about 30 minutes to convince this child to try something else. After the ice cream episode, I pulled every mattress off the beds for all of them to camp out. Well I guess I thought I could lift a king size mattress by myself, and pulled a muscle in my lower back. (I now sympathize with anyone who has pulled their back out -- I felt this shooting pain radiate down my legs and STILL have some discomfort) Well, by now it's 9:30 and no one is tired; except me. So I convince them to watch "An American Girl" DVD, well the DVD player had a disk in it that was stuck and for the life of me I couldn't get the flippin' thing out. So I decided to have a talent show with each girl doing a special routine. Well, this lasted until 11:15 and I am keeping my eyes open with tooth picks by this time. So I finally had to just shut lights off, because the next day I was taking them to do pottery. I thought they'd at least sleep in until 7:30 or so since it was pretty late before they all crashed. NOPE! By 6:30 I hear Renee and Courtney just giggling, shortly thereafter all the girls had awoke except Janaia, (Kara had warned me, she likes to sleep in) I had to wake her up by 9:30. The girls wanted breakfast and I had made up breakfast menus so the girls could pick out the items they wanted to eat. I realized I am so glad I do not own a small restaurant, which I wanted to; once upon a time. My kitchen looked as if a tornado had come through. I think every plate, fork and glass was used. We finally get dressed to go to the pottery place. Now, the big dilemma the place only has one of each piece and they all wanted the same piece. So I said they could pick out anything they wanted. So $75.00 later every one was happy. Although "our" sleepover didn't go entirely as planned, I think the girls had a good time. Later that night my girls told me I was the coolest mom in the world! To me the whole girls night was PRICELESS!!
