It was definitely a night to remember. It was me and three friends and we all dressed up in costume. One friend as soon as she arrived slammed her whole hand in her car door, so we all rushed out to her and put her hand on ice, then once she felt better, we all pitched in to cut up vegetables to make a soup. While we were waiting for the soup to simmer, the friend who smashed her hand brought a big canvas and paint and we all worked on painting together. Then we did our friendship activities I planned. My friends bought me stuff for our move which I totally needed (and fun stuff like wine glasses with cute sayings and framed photos of all of us and hand-made cards), then everyone got a teddy bear and a glass jar, one friend got us all pins/buttons and one friend got us heart rocks that changed colors in the light, and I got them playing cards to remind them of how much I loved games. We played "Friendship Scavenger Hunt" with 9 statements and we all raised our hands if the statement applied to us, then we played 2 Truths and a Lie, then on index cards we wrote to each other our fondest memory and one thing we liked about each other. We had dinner and I made a toast with Martinelli's in fancy wine glasses, then after dinner we decorated a cake with tubes and tubes of icing and sprinkles...we ate the cake with our hands---no forks, plates, or even napkins!--and then I smashed my face in the cake. We chatted and laughed for a while, then they went home and one friend stayed the night with me. It was sooooo much fun! Even with a few bumps like my friend smashing her hand and her and another friend being gone for well over an hour just to pick up potatoes, we had a lot of fun and it was amazing.

Before the party, I spent two hours at the beauty college getting my makeup down. It was my first time getting it "professionally" done, and my first time wearing fake eyelashes and my eyebrows done. Between the makeup and my outfit I couldn't help but gawk at myself in adoration every time I walked past a mirror. I looked pretty damn good!