Kate's 9th birthday!

Somehow our baby girl is 9!!  Wow!  She's turned into such a little lady/person!!  She requested to eat at Chipotle for her birthday and then to open presents and have ice cream.

We had lunch with the birthday girl

donuts to celebrate in her class

cousins at dinner (Alex refuses to be in photos)

she loves this unicorn from her MEME

And she requested to have a puppy dog birthday.  It was BIG!  We had 2 1st graders and 16 3rd graders here for her birthday party!  I was so thankful to have help!!  Gram, Aunt Jes, PawPaw, Uncle Brian and Mike were such great helper!!  Kate helped me plan this Dog themed party!  Everyone received a dog to adapt, made a collar for it, played dog bingo and bean bag toss into dog bowls and did photos as dogs.  We played guess how many dog bones in the jar and LeeAnn won that.  We also played Hot potato with a dog bone and they all really loved that!

Aunt Jes, Kate and I decorated the cookies and had a girl night

these cute kids have been friends since before they were 1!!!  Jax was at Kate's 1st birthday party!!

dog bingo

Gram helping them to make collars for their dogs

all the kiddos!

hot potatoe

all the kids

opening presents

Another great party in the books!!  Since this was a Dog party, we asked everyone to bring donations for the animal shelter.  Kate and I took the donations to the shelter and she was so proud!