Friday Jillian and I had off. She slept in and I baked over 100 cookies for the party. During the day we hung out around the house and got packed and things ready for the party. That night we all (including Dan) headed into Kenosha and we had pizza and hung out.
Saturday morning we got up and Dad make Swedish pancakes. Mom, Jilli and I headed out to the rummage sales in Whitecaps. I found exactly what I was look for! Jillian got the Little People doll house for $2 and we found a Fisher-Price infant to toddler rocker for $5! The boys all went out and played disk golf while we rummaged!
At noon mom, Jilli and I headed over to the hall. Mom and I were in charge of decorations. We got most of the decorating done quickly. Dad and Brent came over and picked up Jillian and ran to the store with her while mom and I ran to Target and Party City to pick up a few more things that were needed. We then all met back at the house and got ready.
At 4 we headed over to the hall to get things finished up and people started to arrive at 6. It was a fun night.
My family has a crazy tradition at anniversary parties of doing a mock wedding. I really mean crazy! Well it was decided that this time the older grandchildren would be the wedding party to pass the crazy tradition on to the next generation. We all dressed up in funny clothes and had a mock wedding officiated by Elvis.
After the mock wedding Brent, Dan, Seth, Jess, Delana, Ryan and myself went over to my grandparent's house and toilet papered the inside of the house. We use to do this when we were little and a member of the family would go on vacation, however we have not done it in years! We thought this was the prime time to start the tradition back up.
We then headed back to the party and hung out with family and friends. It was a fun night and great to see so many people I had not seen in years!
Brent, Seth, Jilli and Dan headed back to mom and dad's and mom, dad and myself stayed to clean up. We then went over to my grandparent's house to drop stuff off. They thought the toilet paper was the perfect topper to the night. We opened their gifts and cards and then headed home.
Sunday morning Seth and Brent had to be at church early to do sound and slides. Well the rest of did not get out of bed in time to make it to church. For lunch we went over to my grandparent's house and ate leftovers with my aunts, uncle and cousins. We then headed back home.
It would not have been a party however without Jillian doing something a little crazy. Saturday morning we tried not taping her tube in place since it has been over a month since we changed to a button and it should not need to be taped in place not to spin. Well apparently it does still need to be taped in place because I looked at it part way through the party and sure enough it had spun about 90 degrees so far. We need to have that changed next month so hopefully it will not spin so much after that, until then we tape!
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