Sabrina Celebrates Tenth Birthday

Sabrina turned ten yesterday. Always the one to entertain she decided to have a luau for her birthday. Now before I describe our "tropical" experience, let me give some background. Jen and Sabrina settled on twelve girls to invite. A healthy sized guest list for any birthday party. Well Jen wasn't sure if some of the girls got their invitations, so Jen made out six invitations and gave them to Sabrina with instructions to deliver them at school. Apparently there was a misunderstanding on who to give the invitations to, because Sabrina handed them out to six more girls. So now we have 18 girls on the guest list. But wait, it gets better. It turns out that this whole global warming thing hasn't reached us up here in the Pacific Northwest, because it snowed the day before her birthday, and the day of, was pretty dang cold!





The morning of the party Dave had a baseball game. I froze to death watching the game, and Dave really froze to death playing. We got home, all cold to find the house all decorated as if it was in Hawaii. Our bar in the family room was transformed into a tiki bar complete with ice cream smoothies. Sabrina and her friends were in their swim suits (yes swim suits). Sabrina had flowers in her hair, and a lei. I of course was wearing a turtle-neck and a fleece pull over. All but two kids showed up for the gal la event (that's sixteen girls for those of you keeping track).





The girls spent most of their time in the hot tub. If anybody is wondering how many 9-10 year old girls can fit into a six person hot tub, the answer is 17. Jen taught them a couple of hula dances. Jen actually does a pretty good hula. It also gave me the chance to download some Don Ho music.





For the birthday cake, Jen made a volcano cake which, with the help of some dry ice, actually erupted. That was one of the highlights of the party. I also presented Sabrina with a new custom home for her guinea pig that I had been building for the past couple of weekends. Her little rodent, Ruby, is enjoying her "piggy condo" and Jen is enjoying having a place to put all the rodent paraphernalia.