Kaitlyn's Surprise Party

Kaitlyn and Grandma

Kaitlyn turned 16 on Friday (May 13), and we wanted to throw her a party. But we also wanted it to be a surprise, so Karissa made the invitations one morning when Mom took Kaitlyn out for her piano lesson a couple weeks ago. We just invited a few girls from church who are close to Kaitlyn. So this week (on Friday) Mom took Kaitlyn to Oakland for a hair cut, piano lesson, to see Grandma Fitzwater, and a lot of miscellaneous errands! Right when pulled out the drive way, we started cleaning the house and getting a few decorations and food items together. 

Elizabeth King's mom dropped her off and Bro. John dropped the Jones girls off, so there weren't even any cars here to give away the surprise when Mom and Kaitlyn got home!

 

 Elizabeth's Mom, Mrs. Cathy King, brought the balloons for us. We really couldn't think of a way to get balloons ourselves without making Kaitlyn suspicious.

This balloon is from Abigail, JoAnna, and Priscilla Jones :)

Karissa did all the decorating! 

And she was very surprised when she finally came in! At first she just saw all the balloons and stuff on the table, but she still didn't suspect anything! She just thought Karissa did that for her! Then we all yelled "Surprise!" and she still only saw Karissa, Katrina and I! The other girls were standing to the side of the fridge of and Kaitlyn couldn't tell where all the voices were coming from!

When she finally saw all the other girls, she was like, "Oh my goodness! Where do you all come from!!!!!!????!!!!!!"
The big balloon Kaitlyn has in this picture is from Grandma. If you tap it, it sings Happy Birthday!


So the first thing we did was... eat! Karissa made taco salad earlier... which is another thing Kaitlyn didn't pick up on! Karissa browned 3 pounds of hamburger (our family never eats 3 pounds of hamburger!!)

 And then Karissa had a couple of games; three, actually.
The first one was just a piece of paper with "Kaitlyn Marie Wagner" at the top. You just used the letters in her name to make as many words as you could. I love word games!

 The second game was a word scramble which, apparently, Karissa is very good at making!! She had about 19 different "girly words" scrambled. She did things like hair dryer, makeup, bangs, sandals, skirt, manicure, et cetera! A bunch of the girls had a pretty hard time figuring out what some of those words were!

 Abigail, Kaitlyn, Priscilla, and Elizabeth
Playing a game :)

 (around the table starting at the far end going right):
Abigail, Kaitlyn, Elizabeth, Katrina, Me, JoAnna

 Still playing games :)

 Kaitlyn, Priscilla, and Elizabeth trying to unscramble those words!

 The birthday girl

 So, I guess I got the most words in the word game (about 50 I think)

 And Abigail was the first to unscramble all her words!

Me, Kaitlyn, JoAnna, and Abigail

After games, we watched a movie....

Tara, Jack, Bobby, Levi, Sue, Lucy, Dimitrius, Myles

 ...which just happened to be "Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye"! No it didn't "just happen". Mom planned it that way. This season (season 5) is the last season, so we saved it, so Kaitlyn would have something new to watch on her birthday! That afternoon, Mom let Kaitlyn stop and rent a movie for that evening (I think she ended up choosing "Prince of Persia") so she wouldn't suspect anything else was planned for the evening!

 One Sue Thomas episode is only about 45 minutes long, so we had Kaitlyn open her presents after the movie was done.

These bracelets are from Elizabeth. She made both of them! She's very talented when it comes to fixing and making jewelry... and she's got good taste!

Karissa got her a teal, green, and white striped shirt and white flip-flops! And I gave her nail polish (because Dad said his girls have to be 16 before they can paint their nails), nail polish remover, a nail file (that also has a buffer) and bag to keep it all in :)
Abigail, JoAnna, and 'Cilla gave her money!!! Yay! She can go shopping!!!!

This is the cake Kaitlyn wanted: a trifle. 

Kaitlyn and Elizabeth

But she also really wanted chocolate covered strawberries. But that's another we couldn't figure out how to do ourselves and still keep it a secret, so Mom gave Mrs. Cathy (Elizabeth's mom) money for supplies and Mrs. Cathy and Elizabeth made them for us! Everyone raved about them! They were so delicious!!!!

A beautiful dessert! 

So happy :-}

Abigail (19), Katrina (11), JoAnna (16), Elizabeth (13), Kaitlyn (16), me (18), Karissa (20), and Priscilla (14)

After we finished eating the trifle and most of the strawberries, we were just sorta sitting around talking and playing with the nail polish in the center piece. Karissa said she heard of this game where a bunch of girls sit in a circle, someone spins a thing of nail polish, and whoever it's pointing at when it stops spinning gets one of her nails painted! So all the girls were like, That sounds fun. Lets play that!! 
So we did!! For the rest of the evening (we only went 'til 10)

I think JoAnna ended up with the most nails painted... she had 5 or 6 or something. 

But after a while we just starting playing around with it!

We wound up with some pretty crazy designs! Some were described a "chicken pox", "lady bug", "flames", and "lips"!!

Elizabeth did a watermelon for Abigail. After we were done with the game, right before we left to take the girls to meet their dads, Elizabeth asked me to do all her fingers in watermelons! I did my toes like watermelons several times last summer :) So Karissa painted her fingers pink, I tipped them in green and gave her some little black seeds!!

Kaitlyn's first day painting nails! She's getting the hang of it :)

JoAnna doing Kaitlyn's! 

JoAnna doing Katrina's

Katrina painting JoAnna's nails

Abigail doing Karissa's!

Abigail doing me! This was the flame job!! She is so artistic... it actually looked like flames!!!! I had already painted my nails red (all the nail polish we used was mine! I didn't realize I had so much :} ) so she used an orangish color for the flames!  Later she did a really cute argyle design on herself! 

The finished products!!!

Mom took the picture for us! 
We had lot of fun!
And best of all....
Kaitlyn was really surprised!!!!!