Alexa's 7th Birthday

Birthday girl in her Birthday dress!

Happy 7th Birthday Alexa! How quickly 7 years has flown by! It's hard to believe that this thin-as-a-rail girl came into the world weighing 9lbs. 11oz! Since her birthday fell on a Sunday this year, we celebrated Alexa's birthday(Nov.30) with a family party at our house-we ate her requested dinner of Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and corn (yes, Thanksgiving dinner again!) opened presents and, of course, ate this giant cupcake and ice cream. She had her "friend" birthday party (see slide show below) a few days later on Friday, Dec. 6. She had her heart set on having a Tinkerbell birthday complete with a Tinkerbell doll cake-so lucky me got to make 2 birthday cakes for her this year. My wonderful Grandma Smith, thankfully, came to assist with the Tinkerbell cake! Thanks again, Grandma-I couldn't have done it without you! For her party we went to the park, played games, and made Tinkerbell wands. We ended up with 14 girls (including Alexa). It was madness, but she had a great time! Thanks to my mom and Grandma for helping transport the girls to the park and for all your help at the party!

Happy 7th Birthday Alexa

Happy Halloween

Yesterday was Halloween. What a great day. It started out with carving pumpkins Thursday night. Then dad made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast. The kids got to wear their costumes to school and walk in the annual costume parade. Trey was 'Dash', Alexa was 'Tinkerbell' (made by Grandma), Cierra was a 'Moster Bride' (made by Grandma), Brittany was a 'Witch' (made by Grandma) and a Room Mother for Alexa's class where they planned a big party, and Todd was 'The Phantom'. Trey was so excited that even though he was wore out from walking form house to house just couldn't get enough of Trick-or-Treating.

Halloween

Pumpkin Patch in the Snow