Alyssa's Birthday and Christmas Party

Alyssa had a nice birthday. We can't believe that we have a teenager. Instead of cake, she requested a crème brulee cheesecake. It was a difficult birthday treat, but it was soooo good.

For dinner, she requested to go to the Japanese Steakhouse again. Our chef put on a good show.  We had to share our table with strangers, but they were nice enough to take a picture for us.

She didn't get her birthday song(they sing a very unique birthday song, but the busboy who knows it wasn't in to work before we had to go) but she did get and enjoy her ice cream.

We let Alyssa throw a birthday/Christmas party this year for her friends. They played Mafia, a quick version of it.

They also played this game where they had to eat a lot of skittles. Some of them were unlucky and had up to 20 skittles in their mouth. They had to pick out 2 skittles at a time and if they were the same color, then they could chew and swallow everything in their mouth.

They also did a gift exchange where they rolled 2 dice in order to see what they should do with their gift.

The rest of the time was Minute to Win It games. I did not get pictures of these because my camera was also the minute timer, but they had fun. There was a little bit of drama leading up to the party, as is normal for 13 year old girls, but I think everyone that came had fun. Most importantly, Alyssa had fun and that is all that really mattered to us.