The birthday party I had for 12th birthday, was amazing! I invited 9 of my closest friends and it was on a Friday, easily went home with me after school. Since my mom is a teacher, we went to her school, and played games until we left her work. After we left work, we all went out to my favorite restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings, and ate. Invitations: We went to Micheal's, a craft store, and got cute printing paper and cut them out in cute designs. We put their names on them and all the information, and put ribbon, lace and glitter on them. On the front, it said Party like there's no tomorrow". I handed them out 1 week before the party. Decorations: We had different colored balloons and streamers all over the house and outside of the house and the trees were hung with streamers and balloons were tied to them. In the living room where we were the most of the time was a pool of balloons that we could play with and draw on. We moved all of the stuff out of the living room so we could play the Wii and sleep in there. Very basic but cute and fun. All of the snacks and such were on the table. Above there was a huge poster that had my name on it in different colors and glitter. Since it was a very big house and nobody living next to us we had our music on all night long. Since my favorite colors are pink purple and orange that was the kind of spray paint and activity items we had in color wise. There was confetti stars glitter and other stuff set up around the house. Activities: We played a variety of games. Truth Truth Lie which is a game where everybody writes their name on an index card then writes 3 other pieces of information. Two have to be true and 1 is a lie. Great game to get to know somebody. We played Truth or Dare Would You Rather 20 Questions and more. At midnight we got our glow in the dark stuff. Stars confetti paint silly string bracelets and other jewelry. Each of us had a can on silly string and glow in the dark paint. We had to wear a white blank t-shirt and white shorts that we could get paint on. Outside we would play tag with the paint and silly string and we could only see with our glow in the dark jewelry. It was fun! We went to the mall the next day. We each got a disposable camera and 1 partner. You get a list of odd things to do and you have 1 hour to go and take as many pictures as you can doing those odd things on the paper. The team who has the most pictures and the funniest pictures wins a small prize. Costumes: We had no costumes just regular wear. Party Snacks: When we would watch movies we had popcorn soda and candy of their choice. There was buttered popcorn along with caramel and kettle. For soda there was Pepsi Dr. Pepper Mtn. Dew and Sprite. Candy was a small box of the girls choice. We also had chips (Doritos Potato Chips and Cheetos) and Oreo's. Cake: We made a home-made cake called better than almost anything cake. It was a German chocolate cake. When the cake cools down poke holes through it with the end of a wooden spoon. Pour a can of sweet condensed milk until it's gone. Drizzle caramel topping and put cream cheese over it. Put in the refrigerator for 1 hour and top with Heath bar pieces and serve! One of my favorite cakes ever. So yummy! Favors: They got to keep their silly string and they got to make a t-shirt with the glow in the dark paint on it. They had bead necklaces and more fun items! I hope you enjoy your party as much as I enjoyed mine."