Dallas Divas & Daughters moms get picky with birthday guest list

by Sarah Blaskovich

It's another week of catty competition on Dallas Divas & Daughters, a reality show on the Style network. The two girls in the spotlight from last week, Hannah and Laura, are back again to plan their moms' joint birthday parties.

Moms Pamela and Brenda give the girls a $40,000 budget (as if!) and tell them to get to work, refusing to help much except for snagging the guest list and crossing out mother-daughter pair Patricia and Jacky. “It was my birthday and we wanted it to be drama-free,” Pamela said. She also scoured the list for other “frenemies” who were not to be invited. Laura, who seemed to take the party planning pretty seriously, got frustrated with Hannah's mom Pamela. “Pam could not keep her hands off the stupid place cards,” Laura said.

Next comes the whole reason for the party: The girls are itching for a reward. “I'm not going to plan ya'll a party for nothing,” Laura said. She wants to go to Cabo for Spring Break. Hannah wants a later curfew.

The party, hosted in Pamela's backyard and featuring a “denim and diamonds” theme, seemed to go well despite a few last-minute snafus like the flowers arriving too late. Mom Brenda looked upset that Pamela hogged the spotlight all night even though it was supposed to be a joint party. “In case you didn't know, it's Pam's world. And we're just all living in it,” Laura said. Ooh dang.

In the end, Laura was allowed to go to Mexico for Spring Break. As for Hannah? “Hell no” to the later curfew, said motherly tyrant Pamela.

Next up are mom Kenya and daughter Chanel fighting over what kind of car the teen will get. Chanel gets bossy, telling her mom, “You're stupid; I hate you” when she gets to sit in the passenger seat of a Range Rover but her mom doesn't agree to buy it on the spot. Instead, Chanel is forced to “earn” it by attending business meetings with Kenya. (She's a style and wardrobe consultant, the owner of a company called Dress Code.)

Chanel sweetly tells her mom she learned so much after the first business meeting. Then this: “I don't really appreciate what my mom does for a living. I was just saying that cuz I wanted the Range Rover. It was all part of my plan,” said the vindictive teen.

We don't get to see duo Courtney and Cindy hardly at all in this week's episode, and the only time Patricia and Jacky show up is while they're sitting at Abacus, sad that they got un-invited to Pamela and Brenda's birthday party. Daughter Jacky seems honestly upset, calling queen-of-the-universe Pamela “very, very rude” and “childish.”

Experience a few I've-been-there-moments when the cameras pan over these Dallas locales: Jasper's, Petals A Florist, Elegant Cakery, A Spice of Life Catering, and the Uptown Trolley riding through West Village.