The Girls Birthday Party

Aly and KK opening up presents. KK loved the beach towel!



They got some art project presents that they have spent the rest of the day doing, as well as some legos that they were thrilled to get!



The second picture is a rare belly shot of mommy!





The girls helped to make and design their cakes! I was so happy with how easy they were!


Today we celebrated the girls birthday and had a party with some of our close family friends! We were lucky enough that the weather cooperated and it was a nice, warm, 78 degrees! The kids even got to go in the wading pools!

I was happy to have the gazebo up this year too! Daddy set it up a few weeks ago and the shade it provided was very nice!

We had a total of 14 kids come to the party. It was mostly girls but the boys that did come did a great job of having some of their own fun! I think there were four boys altogether!

I wanted to keep it simple so I made home made pizza, and served chips and a fruit salad! As nice as it is to have a party at a gymnastics studio or somewhere else, we just can't afford to do that. We also don't want the girls growing up expecting something bigger and better the next year. We hope to keep having the parties at home each year. Next year Aly will probably want to have a sleep over party anyway, so we will probably let her invite 3 or 4 friends over. We can do Kayla and Summer's party together since Summer will only be a year old. We will have a nice back yard party again for that.





The girls wanted pinatas this year. KK wanted one she could hit with a bat so she chose the parrot. Aly wanted one where you pulled the strings so she chose a ladybug.




Unfortunately Aly's pinata didn't work. Every pull string was pulled and none of them pulled the bottom out. So I had to pull the bottom out myself! I had stuffed both pinatas with candy bags so that each child got their own bag and didn't have to fight and push around for grabbing candy!




Here we are singing to Aly.




Here we are singing to KK.