Katie's 7th Birthday

Our Katie is now 7, it was really cute about a week before her birthday, I told her I wanted a really big hug because it would be the last time I would get to hug her as a 6 year old, later that night she told me, "daddy, you can still give me hugs when I'm 7, it will be ok", it was so cute.

Robin, went to the Thrift store and bought pillow cases for .50 and painted mermaid fins on the front so the kids could have mermaid sack race at the party, it was a blast for all the kids!

Robin put so much time into this party, with decorations, planning, and even doing her first cake like this!

Katie had special guests at her party from our friends the Lasisters as they skyped online right at the moment we were singing happy birthday to her, it was their special surprise to her, it was 6am in India. Later Katie said after thinking back on it, "That was really special".

This was the mermaid crown crafting table, along with the goldfish snacks, along with all Katie's friends from Seminary.

Her special birthday, Mermaid Crown, she made...

Did I mention this all took place "under the sea" ,

Grandma Rhodda sent Katie some money for her birthday so she wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese and spend it on some fun games, this is her favorite ride there, its a roller coaster simulator.

This is the birthday cake, complements of Robin Mensinger, all homemade!

We got Katie all this Polly Pocket stuff on one lot on Ebay! We got "all" this for the price of 3 new dolls at Wal-Mart...

Robin got up really early that morning and cooked Katie pancakes and we sang her happy birthday together as a family, before I had to go to classes. We love you Katie, Happy Birthday

Fall Festival

So we have been visiting Travis Ave Baptist Church for several months now, and they had a family get together that the Senior adults put on for the Couple's classes for the parents who have children. It was really special because usually its the parents with children having to work fall festival events and events where they should be with their children, but here they stepped up to the plate and gave us parents the oppurtunity to really enjoy our families and be there with our kids.

This is the result of complaining that, "there wasn't enough pictures taken of me" so it was a surprise pick that totally brought laughter in the vehicle on the way home!

Carving pumkins never a boring moment! Why is that dad's usually end up with the difficult cutting process after the kiddos have poked 375 holes through their designs and expect you to get it cut out right!

Katie was Little Mermaid this year, orginally she wanted to be Pocohantas but changed her mind when they found this mermaid outfit at a Thrift Store.

They had this really cool balloon room, it was like a small bedroom and it was filled with balloons so you crawled in the room and you were surrounded by ballons all around and up & down, one of the cool rooms to go in.

Kelsey wanted to be a girl from India this year, so she has the wrap (actually it was her curtain in her room, her idea to help us save money), we did some henna on her hand & foot and then she's wearing these huge gauti silver arabian looking ear rings that totally fit the part.