We started birthday celebrations on Saturday since Alison's birthday was on Sunday and we'd be at church for a good part of the day. After basketball games, we went to see 'The Secret Life of Pets' as a family. Alison has been really excited to see that movie.
Then we went Famous Dave's for dinner.
We surprised her this year with the birthday plans, so she woke up with balloons covering her bedroom door and her party all set up.
She came downstairs to a new trampoline!
We had breakfast corndogs and opened presents before church.
Eli got her sour gummy worms and lemonade gum. Colin got her a Barbie convertible, Nana and Grandaddy sent a leotard and hair bow, Grandma sent 'Little House, season 5', Katherine and Maggie sent Barbies and Ben and I got her a Kindle.
After church, we brought home Maddie and Alison with us to have an Olympic gymnastics party.
Dinner was Papa John's pepperoni, sausage, bacon pizza; her favorite!
Then she opened presents from her friends and boy, were they generous! Alison got her an "American Girl" (really Next Generation) horse and Maddie got her a pet vet play set. Both gifts were absolutely perfect.
The boys helped me make the oreo cake.
After cake, the girls made some ribbon wands and hair bows.
We watched a few videos of ribbon dancers while they worked.
While the girls crafted, Ben built a balance beam for the party.
I was so surprised by the boys. They wanted to participate in everything, including the crafts and the gymnastics routines the girls made up. Eli was worried that he didn't have the right gymnastics outfit, so he pulled off his shirt and said, "There, now I'm ready!"
The girls made up a routine and then we handed out medals.
2 comments:
Great write up, but why is there no video of Ben doing the hula hoop? That's the payoff we're all looking for.
I was laughing too hard to video. I'll see if I can secretly video him soon...
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