Brooke has been talking about her Strawberry Shortcake party forever! I have discovered that I really love planning parties, and this was no exception. I ordered supplies from Amazon, Party City, and Oriental Trading Company. The week of the party was really stressing me out because rain was in the forecast. This doesn't bode well for a pool party, so I tried to have a contingency plan. I stayed up late on Friday night making a few games to play in case we had to move the party to our house. The morning of the party, the weather was perfect and we had clear skies. The pool was also totally empty, probably due to the potential for rain. We were setting everything up, then the dark clouds started rolling in.
As her friends started showing up, she was getting a little bit shy, but was also excited to have everyone there. Everyone started swimming and things were going well...until the rain started. It was literally pouring buckets, haha. No thunder or lightening, but a solid 15 minutes of downpour. It was still kind of fun to be outside (and luckily the decorations weren't ruined), but as soon as the rain stopped, the pool monitor kid announced that we would all have to get out of the pool for 30 minutes because the office manager saw lightening and heard thunder not far away. It was so weird because it was totally sunny again...but we obeyed and had to head outside the whole gated area. We ended up carrying the food table over to the park, and the pizza showed up at that time, so it all worked out. Everyone enjoyed pizza, strawberries, carrots and ranch dip. We hadn't quite made it the full 30 minutes, so we decided to go ahead and do cake as well.
Those in attendance: G & G Meador, Peacocks, Myers, Sturgills, Crumptons, Smiths, Taggarts, Murrays, Richeys, and Hawkins.
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