A Sleepover for the 10 year olds

Katie had a sleepover to celebrate her birthday.  For this party, we made pizza!  One Hawaiian and one pepperoni and black olives.  One of the friends had to come home from school with us since her parents worked late.  When we drove into the drive-way, the garage door wouldn't open.  Strange.  I got out of the car and tried the keypad entry.  Didn't work.  Hmmm.  I unlocked the garage door and flipped on the light.  It didn't come on.  Hmmm.

With a sinking feeling, I went in the house.  Flipped on the light, but, of course, it didn't come on.  Groan.  Why is the power out on a sunny day?  I sent the girls to the neighbors to see if they knew anything and started to panic.  How would I make the pizza?  What if the power didn't come on and I was trying to entertain four little girls with flashlights and candles?  Oh, man.

When the girls came back, they had discovered that the power had been out for a couple hours.  A substation had a blowout and 10,000 customers were out of power.  I called Arnie.  We needed a backup plan.  He would get pizza before leaving work.  We'd figure out some games and things to do with candlelight.

Thankfully, about 15 minutes after the girls got here, the power came back on.  I called Arnie to cancel the pizzas - he thankfully hadn't ordered them yet - and made the pizza.  The girls played twister for a while, ran around the yard, and played hide and seek in the house.  At bedtime they watched Ramona and Beezus.  Such a nice group of girls.

Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting.

A colorful and fun group of girls.