Sweet Sixteen

 

    Last summer Cassia turned 16 years old.  We always have a "Sweet 16 Hope Chest" party for each of us girls as we’ve turned sixteen, and Cassia just recently had hers this past February.   We are such slowpokes sometimes about posting things when they happen, so this is a little late, but we thought you’d enjoy it anyhow!

 

      Here is a very small glimpse of the preparation part…there was lots more going on, but at least you can see part of it!

 

      Cassia and I were working on the party favors…little gift bags full of milk chocolate, caramel, and almond kisses 🙂

 

 

 

Cassia made these shortbread cookies, and they were the BEST! 

 

We had four tables set up out in our sunroom…this shows some of the decorating we did to them 🙂

 

 

      Do you notice a theme here?!  Cassia loves all things patriotic!  Leah and I went to the dollar store and found some red and white candles to put in pint-sized canning jars and some of the girls had some ivy and it really helped to dress up the tables!

 

 

Yummy pinwheels…

 

…and delicious homemade fudge!

 

 

The Menu

Ham & Cheese Sandwiches

Pinwheels

Caesar’s Salad

Classic Cream Scones

Shortbread Cookies

Raspberry or Peppermint Fudge

Raspberry Ice Cream Dessert

Tea (or hot chocolate!)

 

 

 

After we ate, it was time to play games 🙂 

 

Here is the first game…you want to play, too?!  Susannah and Anna had fun writing this out 🙂

 

How Well Do You Know Cassia?

 

Question 1.Which one of these people (from the past) would she want to meet?

1.       George Washington
2.        Zisternenshop von Regenspeicher Zisternen
3.        Martha Washington
4.        Ulysses Grant
5.        Queen Victoria

Q.2. What is her favorite color?

1.      Orange
2.      Green
3.      Pink
4.      Blue
5.       Red

 

Q.3. Which does she like best?

1.        Tea
2.        Coffee

 

Q.4.What is her favorite animal?

1.        Monkey
2.        Birds
3.        Horse
4.        Cat
5.        Dog
6.        Goat
7.        Giraffe

 

Q.5. Which is her favorite instrument?

1.        Cello
2.        Piano
3.        Electric guitar
4.        Violin
5.        Flute
6.        Drums

 

Q.6. Would she rather go on a long traveling vacation or ride horses?

1.        Ride horses
2.        Go on a long traveling vacation

 

Q.7. Which of these 4 places does she want to visit?

1.        Rome Italy
2.        Albany Georgia
3.        Salt Lake City, Utah
4.        LA California

 

Q.8. Which of these would she prefer?

1.        Skiing
2.        Sky Diving
3.        Boating
4.        Swimming
5.        Playing golf
6.       Playing games on a cell phone

  

Q.9. What is her favorite food?

1.        Shrimp
2.      Pizza
3.      Spaghetti
4.       Meatloaf
5.        Fish
6.       Caviar
7.        Chicken liver
8.        Chocolate chips and peanut butter on a graham cracker
9.        Oranges

 

 Q.10. If she had two hours to do whatever she wanted to do, what would she pick?

1.        Get on the computer
2.        Read
3.        Sew
4.        Take a nap
5.        School
6.        Milk goats
7.        Fix clocks
8.        Take pictures
9.        Eat
10.        Polish Shoes
11.        Clean out her closet
12.        Staple papers together
13.        Draw

 

Q.11. Which of these needlecrafts does she prefer?

1.        Crocheting
2.        Knitting
3.     Cross stitch
4.        Tatting

 

 

Q.12. Which of these payment methods would she prefer?

1.        Going through a regular checkout
2.        Going through a self checkout
3.        Not paying at all 🙂

 

   Some other games we played were Pictionary Telephone, and a get-to-know-each-other game : )  My most favorite game of all came after the gifts…but I’ll tell you about that later!

     When we were all done with the games, Cassia opened her gifts.  Everyone had such good gift ideas and she got many pretty things…everything from doilies to aprons to a few dishes for her hope chest!

 

     Hannah Dixon and I got to sit beside Cassia…we were the people who wrote down who gave her what gift  

    

   

    This book is absolutely amazing!  Leah made Cassia a homemaking book with sections for cleaning, recipes, gardening, etc!  To see more pictures of how she made it, go HERE to the post she did for Feelin’ Feminine a while back 🙂

   

      After the gifts were opened, Jocelyn and Rachel Dixon taught us girls the Virginia Reel,  and Leah was kind enough to fiddle for us as we danced 🙂 It was SO much fun!   Leah said that she saw the bookcases swaying while we were jumping around in there, and do you notice the unhooked curtain rod in the background?!  We didn’t even realize that it happened until we were done dancing, and we still aren’t sure how it happened!  We must have been making the whole room bounce!  We have some videos of some of us dancing with the Dixon’s at another time…but that’s for another post!!!

 

     Our last guests to leave were the Dixons…before they left, though, we got a picture of all us girls together 🙂 

 

And so ended a most splendid birthday party!

Happy Sweet 16 Cassia!

 

 

Answers to "How Well Do You Know Cassia?"

1. George Washington
2. Blue
3. Coffee
4. Horse
5. Piano
6. Go on a long traveling vacation
7. Albany, Georgia (the makers of Fireproof are from there, and she LOVES Fireproof!)
8. Swimming
9. Pizza
10. Get on the computer
11. Knitting
12. Self-Checkout….the "not paying at all" option was Anna’s idea

The person who got the most right was Hannah Dixon…she had 9 of them right 😀  How did you do?!

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