Sunday, January 01, 2006

The party was a great success. M and I decided to make it as elegant and grown up as possible. I made punch which was in a big fancy glass punch bowl, fancy glasses to drink out of. I also made a rum cake which went over well. We had champagne glasses with 2006 on them for the non alcoholic champagne to be passed around at midnight. A huge bag holding 30 red, silver and black balloons and a ton of confetti was thrown over the guests by myself and Jimi at midnight. That part was really cool because they weren't expecting it and didn't see us waiting at the top of the stairs. When they got to 1 at the countdown they were covered in confetti. The confetti was absolutely insane because it was ALL over the house. Luckily the sleepover girls are sweet and helped clean it up throughout the rest of the night and the morning. I still think we will find bits of confetti over the next few months. They watched movies, listened to music, listened to Jimi and Kendal play some live music. T had a blast. She thought the girls were so cool. T woke up the next day and said, "Last night was wonderful" it was so cute. It's adorable to hear a little person say such big words. Twister bust out and called for many laughs. Everyone invited had to wear black, silver or red with some sort of glitter in their outfit. ( The girls changed clothes before this picture so you can't see how cute everyone looked)

Jimi called a few hours before the party and he cancelled his plans to come over saying he'd rather see us over New Years. I thought that was awesome. He was so excited to be here. I think because he spent so much time here in the past it feels like home to him. When he walked in he said, "Your house smells different than before" I don't know what it smelled like before but that was strange. LOL The girls sleeping over said they love the way our house smells and they can smell it on M sometimes at school. Just having someone comment on a scent that relates to you is weird. I don't know what is up with this scent at our house but I wish I knew because it causes quite a bit of conversation. I have a feeling it's just the candles they smell but the bit of smelling it on M at school doesn't make sense.

Anyway, Jimi's Dad and brother stopped by unexpectedly. It was nice to see his Dad doing so well. He had a pretty rough year himself. He's made quite a few positive changes in his life in the last year which reflected well in his conversation. To see someone making so many positive changes in their life is inspiring.

Jimi played some songs for everyone and every once in awhile he'd do something that B always played. That started bumming me out. Like when B would get bored in practice or was waiting for everyone else to tune their instruments he'd start playing this little circus type riff he made up, quite funny. Jimi did that. And Jimi did a few songs B made up. During those times I had to really shut myself out from listening. It was also amazing to me how many of Jimi's mannerisms are like B's. Just seeing Jimi really made me miss B. We listened to a few things B made on his computer after the party died down and some of them were so funny. This particular one was where B sang the SpongeBob song. OMG, what a dorkus, it was so funny how he twisted his voice and just picturing him sitting by himself recording this made me laugh and think what a ham. I'm really looking forward to next week when B comes home. I'm excited to see them feed off each other in humor and music. I'm really just excited to see them both be so happy for 5 days.

I hope everyone had a great safe New Year.
 
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