June's 12th birthday rolled around! She left the ranks of a primary kid and joined the Young Women's program. She was really looking forward to this birthday, as all her friends aged out a month or two before she did.
The Young Women snuck over the night before and decorated our door to welcome her to the program. We celebrated with a little family party, but we put her friends party on hold for a few weeks because Dad had to work.
Lots of cool gifts and special loves from the fam - even Tooder gave some birthday loves!
She got this awesome marauder's map blanket. We never seem to outgrow HP!
Here she is all dolled up for her first Sunday in Young Womens!
Fast forward a few weeks to the big celebration. This year, June chose a murder mystery party with all of her friends. I looked at a few options up online, but they were either too mature in content or too babyish and stupid, so I just decided to write my own. We called it: The Death of Dr. Ribbitmonger!
Each friend was given a costume and back story prior to the party. The were all invited to a dinner to honor the eccentric, millionaire scientist who devoted his life to the study of frogs and had died mysteriously. His butler, (Kolby) told each guest they had been named in his will and stood to inherit his fortune!
Of course our food was frog-themed!
And tasty!
Little did the guests know, they were all really suspects in Dr. Ribbitmonger's murder and their dinner contained a deadly poison!
The only way to save their skins was to assemble at the crime scene, sit through an interrogation, present their alibi and find the culprit!
If they figured it out in time, the butler would provide an antidote to the poison. If not, they were all doomed!
Could it have been the gardener in love with Dr. Ribbitmonger's daughter? Maybe it was his spoiled, teenage 80's daughter!
Was it the ditsy maid? The jealous ex-wife? The mailman?
Maybe it was the nosey neighbor, the competing scientist, the inexperienced chef, or the angry environmentalist?
They all looked pretty shady to me!
The debt-riddled chauffeur, the white-trash brother, and the cruise captain buddy all had good reason to knock him off!
It wasn't easy, but the sharp detective and the loyal butler solved the case!
Can you believe that spoiled daughter convinced her gardener boyfriend that the only way they could be together was to poison her dad, clean out his safe and flee the country?
This turned out to be one of our best parties ever! Happy birthday, you jaded little valley girl!
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