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6/28/2017

A Donut Birthday Party

Sadie turned 9 back in May.

She wanted to have some friends over for a party.

Sadie came up with a Donut Themed Birthday Party.

I thought her idea was so cute.
We sent out Donut Invitations.

Sadie wanted to do a craft.
We made paper plate donut purses.
Here is the idea and instructions.

We played some Donut Games.

Game 1:

Try to eat a donut from a string using NO hands.

Game 2:

Try to throw 3 inflatable donuts onto a stick.

(We used a brother's play sword stuck in our couch.)

I got the donut inflatables from Amazon.

(They are small, and not swimming pool inflatables.)

Game 3:

Pin the Donut!

The girls put their initials on the bottom part of the donut.

We blindfolded the girls and had a donut box tacked to the wall.

The girls had to try to put their donut top on their initialed donut.

We did a donut cake, of course!

(For you locals,

Sweet Sensation Donut is are favorite place to get fresh donuts!

They are YUMMY!)

We gave out these mini donut chains in goodie bags.

1/12/2016

My oldest turns 14 and my youngest turns 5!

My 2 December Birthday kids, my bookends, were both due in January.
They both did the unexpected and came more than 3 weeks early, by natural labor.
When I was due with Brandon in January, I never even considered that he would come in December, let alone, on Christmas Eve.
What, Lindy, my oldest did, by coming 3 weeks early, by natural labor,
I thought, was a once in a lifetime experience. WRONG!
What I keep learning over and over is that life is UNEXPECTED.

Brandon's 5th Birthday on Dec. 24th:

He wanted a superman birthday cake. He designed it with me.
Telling me he wanted buildings on this cake.
He wanted to take some friends and family to our local open gym to play.
Luckily, his neighbor friends, cousins, and the gym were available on Christmas Eve.

He got some metal cars larger than hot wheels size, some miniature trains,
and a teepee.