Karen's 12th Birthday

May 15th, 1998

Karen celebrated her 12th birthday with a sleepover party. It was a ton of fun!

Before and After

Here's what the house looked like before the party. Mom worked like crazy to get it all decorated. Doesn't it look nice?

Mom put this confetti stuff all over the floor. I think that the idea was to make the floor look messy beforehand so that it wouldn't be too depressing to look at later.

Wow, look at this table. We must have had a blast!

The Guests

Here are pictures of almost all the guests. Jessica was hiding from the photographer!

Courtney Beguin. She's not mad, she's just trying not to laugh!

Sarah Croll

Tiffany Tatro

Ashley Griffith

Stephanie Cowan

The guests signed a poster.

Small, Furry, and Posessed

The cat did not care for all this commotion.

Pizza!

It takes a lot of pizza to feed all these girls. Those two pizza boxes that aren't open have pizzas in them, too.

Mom even let the girls eat in the living room.

Pizza for breakfast, yumm!

Singing "Happy Birthday"

The girls sang "Happy Birthday" into the microphone so you could hear it. Karen was all the way on the other side of the room blowing out the candles already. That's why someone says "She's blowing out her candles!" at the end of the song. And that's why we didn't get a picture of her making a wish.