Grace is a 9 year old Rock Star!!!

I really wanted to not have to have a party at our house. It's a lot of work and clean up on my part. But, Grace wanted a party and the parties on location are just so expensive. So, Aunt Joni came up with the idea for a Rock Star party. Grace loved it! They made signs for every room, like "Green Room" for the kitchen, "Dressing Room" for her bedroom, "Make-up Room" for the bathroom, "Recording Room" for the stage area, etc. They made a big "Girls Rock" sign for the stage and "Rock Concert Tonight" sign for the front door. We decorated with foil streamers, balloons, gold stars and even a couple disco balls that I borrowed. We had a red carpet coming up to the front door and Reesi's new karaoke machine that Santa brought this year. Joni provided the fun music. We ordered pizza and I made cupcakes in a cone that looked like (or were supposed to) microphones. I froze strawberry Fanta in ice cube trays to drop in the Sprite for something special to drink. They all dressed like Rock Stars and put make-up on, glow in the dark nail polish and Rock Star tattoos. They danced and sang and ran all over the place all night long! We had two separate sessions of walking the red carpet. Joni played the part of announce with her echo microphone and announced each girl on the carpet. I played the part of paparazzi and snapped pictures. I kept watching the neighbors windows to see if they were looking out to see what was going on. The girls were really wild and really loud! We started the movie "High School Musical" around 9:45pm to try and calm them down. It didn't work exactly as I had planned but a few did sit and watch it. We have 4 girls spend the night. I finally sat on the floor and kept them quiet until they fell asleep around 12:30am. They had a blast. I was exhausted and spent a LONG time cleaning up the next day. Poor Jingle Bell was played with the entire night and next morning but she was a trooper and didn't get mad and bite anyone, thank goodness. She slept on the couch the next day from about 10am to 1:30pm when I had to put her in her crate because we were going somewhere.

This little notebook was a gift from that night. Grace wrote a diary entry in it the next day. This makes all the effort and work worth it. I'm so glad she had a good party!