Girl Party and Metal Mouth

We had some big events the last couple of days that are screaming to be blogged, and now that I have napped through all of Princess Bride and watched some of the Teen Choice Awards and the rest of Everest, I can get to it.  Summer has made me so lazy, I tell you.

Thursday Mer hosted a "Girls Night In" for some of her best school friends here at the house.  We sent the boys off with dad and had a girl party.   Mer had it all planned of course.  The evening started off with volleyball and trampoline jumping while the guests all arrived.  Then they washed up and made their own mini pizzas for dinner.  The little boys hung out with us too, until Doug got home, which worked out perfectly because all eleven year old girls think little boys are "just so cute".

While the pizza was cooking they all  played games.  Mer gave out tickets to the winners so they could buy candy and popcorn at the "Concession stand" later that night.

 Pizzas were cooked and promptly gobbled up.  Look Rachel, Mer discovered that your strawberry bowl can double as the perfect fruit bouquet vase. 

After Pizza it was movie time!  They chose to watch the Parent Trap, and painted nails while they watched.

Then we had a little intermission where they used their tickets to buy snacks.

Above is the posed picture but the picture below shows really how the night went over, with lots of laughing and giggling.

  Mer's so lucky to have such nice girlfriends.

Oh... here's a pic of some of the nail art.

 The evening went off just as Mer planned and she went to sleep that night a very Happy girl.

Then we awoke early the next morning and were off to the Dentist office where Mer's smile changed from this....

to this...

And now she has a mouth full of metal and talks with a bit of a lisp.  Her pain is easing a bit but it will take a while to get used to everything in her mouth.

The kids also got their teacher assignments on Friday... School starts Wednesday!  It's going to be a good year!