I'm wishing you...

the joy of a new skill and the delight that comes in making it happen

Sarah Brooke hosted her first slumber party

Here the girls have just arrived and they were very excited to start playing. My camara was on the wrong setting but there wasn't time to fiddle with something like that when there is excitment in the air. Sarah Brooke is standing by her BFF Cassie England and her other BFF's Holly and her sister Laura are on either side of Ashley. The ages were 9, 8, 7, 7 and 5.

Happy 8th Birthday Sarah Brooke

She is opening all her gifts. As they get older the birthday opening does get a little calmer but still very exciting!

I love this pic of all their hair colors.

Sarah Brooke requested that the food be something that didn't have to be cooked so this is what I came up with for them to eat. We had chocolate covered strawberries, heart shaped bologna and cheese sandwiches, doggy bone shaped p & j's, crackers w/cheese and mini "puppyroni's" and cheetos.

The birthday theme was puppies.

I bought these crazy glasses that are actually straws. Unfortunatly you couldn't see the pink lemonade running through them....

so I had to demonstrate them with a glass of Pepsi. Yes, that is Pepsi running around my eyes, if you can get over the scariness of the pic :-)

Sarah Brooke is very interested in cooking so I decided to make this a do it yourself kind of party. The girls decorated what would be Sarah Brooke's birthday cake. I think they had fun but boy was it a messy idea :-)

Please excuse the pj's. They got ready for bed so they wouldn't get icing all over their church clothes. Here is their beautiful creations. If the icing would have stayed in the carefully prepared bags then they might would have become professionals. ha

Ready for bed, Not!!!! They watched the movie Winn Dixie to wind down and then after lights out they giggled and talked until sometime after 1a.m. Good times!

This morning we carried over the do it yourself part and they made their own pancakes (w/my help) and personal pizzas for lunch. Brooke (another BFF) was able to come over this morning. She is making her pizza on the right.

It was a delightful time for my girls and something that we will do again in the future. Thanks BF's for coming and helping us celebrate Sarah Brooke. We have your little handwriting in her journal/diary that we will treasure. Now I'm off to brush my teeth and call it a day!!!

Silly Safari and Amazon John came to the library

(I had to zoom in so the pics are a little blurry)

Cameron was chosen by Amazon John to be one of his helpers.

This guy is over the top crazy. The kids love him. Cameron gets to pet the baby alligator.

EEK! Now he is holding it. Much to the delight of my big guy.

I took the kids to our new pet store in town just to look around. Cameron could not understand why I didn't see any charm in the tiny, little, cute, leopard gecko. Now the lazy cat in the corner is much more my style. I prefer big, soft and fluffy. We are enjoying our summer break so much. How about you?