What was I thinking-suprise 16th bday party for D

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<p>One hour to go!!! What was I thinking!!! Tons of kids, husband roaming around calling himself Annoying Dad, saw one girl with beer, arggh!!!</p>

<p>Kicked out 8 gate crasher with bottles. Had Elvis visit. My house is a mess, but D was thrilled…</p>

<p>This last hour is gonna be long…</p>

<p>Won’t do this again until second turn 16 in two years, but then oldest will turn 18!!!</p>

<p>But, we got the boy girl party thing over with, most kids are really nice though…</p>

<p>they are all so big and pretty and handsome, but I feel like they are all still 5</p>

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<p>Too funny!</p>

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<p>My husband is telling the last three young men that it is time to depart…HOT ROB, OBNOXIOUS KEVIN< AND DUDE GUY…reamaining girls now sad…toooo bad</p>

<p>YEAH!!! off to sleep…</p>

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<p>Very funny!!! We still talk about my Ds 16th birthday party- it went over FAR better than I guessed it would. No illegal substances, no fights, no ticked off neighbors,etc. REALLY GREAT KIDS are aliveandwell today!</p>

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<p>The kids really were behaved, jsut wish I could bottle that energy…we just had the one beer- that I know about (which I am sure girl knicked from her Daddy)…all the kids seemed pretty good and if there were illegal substances, we saw no evidence with the teenager’s behavior, cause I was a’watchin’</p>

<p>No neighbors peeking out windows, and DH only had to tell the kids once to not play in traffic :)</p>

<p>A couple of lessons- more cake, less taco stuff, and instead of gifts, kids brought beanie baby like toys to send to the children of Iraq…and school supplies of a homeless shelter…got lots of both!!! My D is very much the social justice/volunteer type of girl and that made her really happy, boys brought the most beenie babies, probably swiped for little sisters rooms!!</p>

<p>And, we are going to develop miniture cameras that look like dog fur, so dogs can roam house and yard and spy…okay we didn’t need that but it would have been funny</p>

<p>It was good it was a suprise party- 90% of the kids were her by 730 (so no partying somewhere else and then showing up, it controlled guest list to some extent, and kids pretty much kept the secret</p>

<p>And two BOYS actually helped me clean up, said they couldn’t help themselves.</p>

<p>DH off to a golf tournement, and I am back to chauffering DDs around to spend all that birthday money!!</p>

<p>Elvis, by the way, was really a big hit…he sang, did the pelvis thing, I think we had the only Irish Elvis in town</p>

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<p>DH finally tells me this story:</p>

<p>He comes home during party and opens hall closet (very small space) and inside- a boy and a girl!!! Boy stammers, “um, sooorrry, Mr. Mac, but I was just showing Betsy the house…” DH, snickers, than says “well I think she has seen enough”</p>

<p>hehehhehe</p>

<p>Ed Haskle lives</p>

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<p>LOL…priceless! That boy and girl will remember that moment for the rest of their lives! In fact, their children will probably even hear about it.</p>