My sister Angela has been planning a mystery date party for months when she knew she would be coming to Utah. She paid for a script, planned all the details, and had us each bring a dish from Spain for our Spanish Cuisine. Our mystery party was called Caught in a Spiders Web. It was a lot of fun to do with our family. For those unfamiliar with a mystery date party, you get a group together, have a part to play and dress like, and it can be scripted or unscripted. It is kind of like the movie Clue, where everyone is trying to find out who the killer is amongst all those in the room. There is dinner and acts in between. It is a lot of fun.
Here we are all just listening to clues. Notice everyone is dresses up differently. Some people really dressed their parts well.
My mom was a spanish hotel maid and Keith was a laid-back, dancing bartender. They look good!
This is Evan, Angela's brother in-law, and his fiancee. They were married later that week. Their parts were, obviously, the chef, and a show girl. In the story, she was actually the killer of the hotel owner because he kept flirting with her and asking her to run away and marry him or he would fire her and cause problems. In each story, everyone has a reason to kill him, so you are working through all the clues to find out wo really did it.
This is me and Steve (bad picture). We were taking it ourselves and had the window behind us. There weren't enough girl parts, so as you might be able to tell with the hat and moustache, I am a male gardner. It was kind of a fun role. I think Steve was like a bellhop or something.
The Grub: Mormon sangria, spanish chicken, apitizers, fruit, salad, spanish potato salad, a tuna fish/avacado mix, deserts. It sure was yummy!
Here is Dondi and Keeley. Dondi was also a hotel maid. She had to keep getting up with Keeley which is why is was standing half of the party.
Here are some after party pictures. KC and Chani and Kiana, Maile trying on Daddy's hat, Keith taking pictures, and one of Keeley on my floor. Not in that order, but you get the idea!! We had such a good time together. I think my favorite time is family time and it was great for Angela to come up with this idea. And anytime there is food, I'm all in!
We had all of our family and a few friends meet us at a park near our home for Maile's birthday party. We made a super easy cake and had KFC. We just put animals on her cake for the zoo theme and she actually got a lot of zoo stuffed animals that she has to have with her at all times. Maile enjoyed licking the frosting off of the plastic animals, you can do whatever you want when it's your birthday =). Thanks for everyone that came and spolied her, she thinks she wants a birthday every day now. 
Miss Keeley looking cute, as always!
We usually just get the seats on the lawn and bring our blankets. The day we went, they had free meals for all the kids. The girls enjoyed a hotdog, drink, chips, and a snack. Steve also took them on the train ride and to the playground they have there. Kiana also got a balloon flower, which popped, and she begged for another. We had to go and wait in line and get both girls more balloon makings. The second one Kiana got was a princess wand and Maile got a dog, both of which also popped soon after, which made for many tears.
