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!

Alex's 7th birthday!!!

Alex is 7!!!  Our Buddy is 7!!

When I asked Alex what he wanted to do for his birthday, he said he wanted "Reese and Cullen to come over to have breakfast for dinner and ice cream."  So he woke up, went to school and then we had Cullen's family, cousins, MeMe and Aunt and Uncles over for Breakfast for dinner and ice cream.  Then opening presents! 

Alex is 7!!!

lunch with Alex at school

Daddy with Aberlee

I took donuts to his class

opening presents

playing with Meme

Happy Birthday Alex!!

This boy warmed my heart before he went to bed, when he told me he had a "fantastic birthday" Love him!!

Then on Saturday we had his Nerf gun 7th birthday party!!

his cupcake target cake

targets

Mike and Cullen's Dad Andrew were in charge of the party outside.  I think they had just as much fun as the boys did!

I took this picture and then they started shooting me!!

Loved having a small party!  Alex and his friends really had a great time!