Happy Birthday!

Do you know the best part about having a birthday on Sunday? You get to celebrate ALL weekend long! Jena and I celebrated our birthday in June. We started off the weekend with a friend party on Friday. This was the first friend party for Jena and she was so excited she could hardly wait. She actually counted down the minutes until her friends would get there.

We played "Pin the hair on Rapunzel"

We played this "Pop the Balloon" game (We actually call it "monster mash" at Halloween time, but I thought it would be fun to do at a birthday party) We made bracelets, but I didn't get a picture of that.

We opened presents and took a group picture.

Then had ice cream sandwichesSince Jena's birthday was on a Sunday, we let her have her big present, a new bike, a day early so she would actually get to ride it. Of course, she loved it! She was even more thrilled that she had just learned how to ride a 2 wheeler just a few weeks earlier and now she had a fun, new bike to show off her new skill.

We took Jena to dinner that night for her birthday since we wouldn't go on Sunday. She, of course, chose IHOP. My kids love that place.

Here she is opening the rest of her presents on her actual birthday.

Remember that part on Despicable Me where the little girl squeezes the unicorn and yells, "He's so fluffy!!!" That's exactly what she was doing here. She has wanted a pillow pet forever and I just couldn't disappoint her.All the birthday presents. She spent almost an hour setting all her presents up like this so I could take her picture. She wanted to make sure everything was seen...even down her her markers and stickers.We spent our actual birthday going to church and then we had dinner at my in-laws house. We go over there once a month for family dinner and it just happened to fall on our birthday this month. It was great because we got to pick what we wanted for dinner and then we brought cake and ice cream for dessert.

Singing Happy Birthday

Our annual birthday picture