Friday - mad shopping day! This weekend was Caitlin's birthday party, Lauren's actual 22nd birthday and with Easter coming up I had LOTS to buy - all done now though so we're sorted for everything, phew!!
Saturday morning - Lauren's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOZZIE-LOO!! Lauren had saved (most of - she's a nightmare!!) her presents and cards and we were all up at 6am to open them! Well, the girls are a bit under the weather (more on that later) so that's why they were awake so early.
After that though, it was really all go, go, go to get ready for the birthday bash. I was out just before 8am with Caitlin and Izzy to go and pick up Olivia, Caitlin's best friend. Olivia's Mum Melanie goes to college on a Saturday morning so we needed to get Olivia here so that she wouldn't miss the beginning of the party. I took the girls to Tesco (cos I'd forgotten the chocolate for the fountain - how I wish it had stayed forgotten ;o) more on that later!) and then we came back to tidy up for the party. Olivia and Caitlin were SOoOooooOOOooo helpful tidying up - fab girls! Lauren took Izzy to the shops to look for some more PS2 Sing Star mics cos one of ours was broken - could you believe it, there were NONE in any of the 6 shops they visited!
Anyway, they returned and Izzy was clearly not well - very hot and flushed and clingy :o( She had a little sleep after lunch and we got everything else ready to go and Caitlin put on her beautiful dress. The people doing the beauty party arrived just before 1pm and all the guests arrived. From 1pm to 3pm, the girls were beautified and played Sing Star - take a look!
The beauty girls' van
Sing star in action
Pedicures and footspas
Look at Caitlin's stunning hair do!
Their hair was beautiful and their make up was very sparkly :o) The girls just wanna have fun women were excellent - all the brushes are sterilised for each girl, they use separate applicators for each make up and they put bin bags in the foot spas to keep them clean! They were also extremely lovely to the girls and they all had a fab time! Oh - who was there... Caitlin, Olivia, Emily (her best friend since she was 5 months old!!), Miah, Preeti, Aimee, Charlotte and Danielle. Caitlin won the Sing Star competition singing Laura by the Scissor Sisters and the girls all had great fun singing in front of the big screen!
During the singing, Izzy reappeared and put on her beautiful dress courtesy of Nanny - she looked lovely! Unfortunately, she had a raging temperature by this point and was a bit sick but eventually Calpol (tylenol - Transatlantic translation!) did the trick and a dose of Ibuprofen (advil) later had her pretty much joining in with pass the parcel and even managing a bit of party food - few more pics for you then...
Izzy looking adorable
Even Nick sang Sing Star!
The birthday girls
Caitlin and Emily taking the whole manicure business very seriously!
So, the food was a hit - egg pittas, cheese rolls, cucumber, tomatoes, crisps, sausages and mini scotch eggs for savoury and then popcorn, cakes and the CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN WITH MARSHMALLOWS AND FRUIT KEBABS!!!! - the fruit kebabs were so SCRUMMY but this was the cause of the ensuing disaster!!The table set with food
We decided to do the cake and sing happy birthday to Lauren and Caitlin first then moved the cake out of the way - fortunately as it turned out...
Birthday cakes and singing
The girls were gathered around the chocolate fountain enjoying dipping their fingers, marsmallows on kebab sticks and fruit kebabs into the chocolate as you can see from this picture.
Unfortunately at this point, both Lauren and I put our cameras down and were busy with food and party bags cos BOY if we'd been recording the next incident we could have made a mint on youtube or "you've been framed"....
Somehow, someone got their kebab stick stuck in the holes at the base of the winding stem up the chocolate fountain, at this, the fountain started crazily spinning, whipping the stuck stick round and round and spraying the table and the kitchen with chocolate!!! There was stunned silence initially and then AAAAGGGGHHHHHH - the girls screamed and squealed and after a few seconds, Nick sprang into action to unplug the fountain!
You should have seen the mess!! The girls were covered!! So, Lauren and I frogmarched the girls into the playroom to wipe them down with wet wipes whilst Nick made a start in the kitchen - poor Miah was so covered that I had to put her in some of Caitlin's trousers and quickly put hers through the wash!!!! All the remaining food on the table was COVERED - chocolate coated cakes, salted popcorn (yuk), cheesy puffs (double yuk!) and sausages (triple yuk!!!). Well, we took a couple of pictures of the aftermath.... enjoy!!!!
That all made the party fairly unforgettable and most important of all, Caitlin and her friends had a lovely time!
I think that's about if, Caitlin went to a birthday party today for her friend Aimee and Izzy was up half the night hot & sick but both girls are now happily asleep and (hopefully) will sleep well tonight.
Caitlin's on her Easter holidays for the next 2 weeks - so we'll blog later in the week to let you know what we're up to.
Love to all, God bless!
Nikki xoxoxoxoxoxox
5 comments:
i love your version of the day much better! hahaha thanks for the detailed descriptions! it makes for a fine blog entry! i quite liked the pattern the sprayed chocolate made on the table personally. hahaha what a FUN day! it was all FAB! let's hope everyone is feeling better this week! hooray for easter!!!! love and hugs to you!!! xoxoxoxo
Great job on the party Nikki. It looked so much fun, even with the diaster that ensued. I wish I could of been there.
Love and hugs to all the Joyce family.
Love Katherine xoxoxoxoxoxo
i'm LOVING the new widgets!!! you go girl! love the verse!!!!! xoxox
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahhahahahahah that's the most hilarious thing EVER!!! I have to tell brad's mom about this blog because she has the same chocolate fountain!!!!!!!!! OoooOOoOOoohhh I'm so excited; it's artistic!! hahahaha
I have to mention that your girls are by far the most photogenic children on that side of the pond. There are Caitlin's friends looking quite like children; then there are your girls looking like MODELS!!! They are so precious!! I love them!!
Wow! what a hilarious party. Chocolate every where would certainly suit Lauren who is a chocolate lover. I laughed so hard until I had tears in my eyes visualizing the speed of the machine and the expressions on the faces of the girls. Great story.
love you all
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