Yes, I sucumbed to Brandi's pressure!!

Well, today I had my 18th B-day party. It was pretty much amazing! It had been a really long time since all of us, Branden, Ian, Laura, Brittany, Sindhu, Ashley and Tia had been together. Ian and Ashley had to come late around 2:30 and everyone else was coming around 1. Branden came over around 11:30 to help me out with some last minute details, like feeling up the rest of the water balloons I was going to have for the party. I had previously filled about 270 up the nights before and had about 130 left before the party. So when Branden showed up, we realized that we had run out of places to put all of the gazillion balloons I had!!! So, we took a happy road trip to his home, about 10 mins from my home. It was wonderful of course, because Branden is pretty much amazing and we were on a pre-party high, so it was a blast! We grabbed some buckets and then headed off to Tia's to pressure her into coming to the party. She had been at BYU-Provo and had got back a couple days before my party. I didnt realize that she would be in town, so we headed over to persuade her to come. Well she was defenseless against my demanding and harsh charm so she said yes, but she had to finish her grilled tofu and cheese sandwich and would head right over! (shes HILARIOUS!!) We head home, I proceed to fill all the water balloons minus about 40, and then the WATER FIGHT BEGINS!!! It was an amazing blast!! We first played Extreme Water Spoons, a game I had invented while i was showering the day of!! I know, I am amazing like that! Well many wet cards and crushed water balloons later, Sindhu came out the victor in an intense face off with Branden!!!

Yes, they may look special, but they are amazing!!!

Ian, trying to in trance us all with his voodoo magic!!

Both of our faces are priceless!!!

The Group minus branden. For some reason my arms look really muscular!!

At around 2:30 Branden had to head off until 4 to grammasit, so us girls waited it out, and plotted to ambush Ian and Ashley when they showed up. Many tiny, filled buckets later, and some very unnecessary, but non the less very humorous screaming, Ashley and Ian appear soaked and smiling!! It was by far an amazing water fight, one for the books!! After we clean up, we have a wonderful dinner, consisting of a selection of meats and cheeses for hoagie sandwiches, mom's wonderful macaroni salad and banana pineapple slush drink, ranch doritios and funfetti cake mix cookies!! It was delicious after such a long and hard battle. I received a large array of gifts. Sindhu out did her self, she got me a beautiful necklace that I love, and a ferocious stuffed dragon that will make a great addition to my dorm bed. Among many gift cards to my beloved Target, Laura got me some scrub pants (I was soooo excited) and a cute shirt, Ian being the most creative got me a plunger, (kind of a joke since I got him a big pack of Charmin toilet paper for his B-Day) and a large box of Otter Pops!! I LOVE them!!! After being totally stuffed we headed off to the Benton-Franklin County fair. We headed first to the exhibit were my dress was. I was surprised and disappointed to see that i had only received a second premium on it. This dress was a lot more complicated than last year, so I was surprised to see that it had not done as well. We then headed off to see Ian's art. Amazing as usual, but since he entered everything under adult he didn't place except for his sculpture. He received a First Premium for it. We then headed off to the rides!! We went on all the favorites and even hit a little of the extreme ones, well as extreme as you can get at the county fair!! My favorite ride had to have been the swinging ship, we started and ended the night with it!! I even went on the Drop Zone!! I am a little baby when it comes to heights, but it was really fun!!! At around 9:45 we headed off to get some food before we left. I got an amazing, enormous burrito and a mango lemonade. We all then shared a raspberry funnel cake and curly fries!!! With a snowcone previously that night, I felt that I had, had my fill!! :) We caught the 10:30 bus to Kamiakin and then headed home. We sat down stairs and chatted and laughed about random humorous things till everyone left around 12:15. It was by far a great party!! Thanks everyone for making it happen!!
Love, chels