We celebrated Haley, Wendy, and Brett's birthdays toward the end of the month. Haley and Wendy get the delayed celebration and Brett gets an early one. This year the cakes were made in the style of American Girl dolls, because Haley is such a great collector of these and Brett sort of came up with the idea. We had written the words to song for Wendy and Haley's birthdays to the tune of Like a Lion, also known as God's Not Dead by the Newsboys. In it we sang the lyrics: "Haley's not ten, she's surely eleven, She's living for gymnastics and collecting A-G dolls..."
We also had the privilege of celebrating baby Avery's first birthday with her mother Caitlyn (Brett's cousin) and her father Austin, along with a handful of other guests. There was good food and fun games for the kids to play.
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| A cousin mob scene. |
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| Pin the banana on the monkey. |
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| Avery was queen of the day and loved her stash of balloons. |
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| Avery's dad (Austin) and mom (Caitlyn) enjoyed showing her off on her first big celebration. |
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| That's how you open your new basketball hoop/soccer goal. |
