Happy Seventh Birthday Haylee Jo!

Thursday November the 6th Haylee turned SEVEN! WOW! I can't believe the last year has gone by so quickly!!! This year we started a new birthday tradition...Birthday Wishes. You get a wish for each year you are old. Haylee was really excited to spend her seven wishes

Wish #1 Pancakes for breakfast

YUMMY!

Wish#2 NO SCHOOL! -there aren't any pictures of this one

Wish #3 a luxurious bubble bath

She was in there for an hour!
opening presents - no wish needed here -

Pokemon Cards! Yessss!!!

A chemistry set from Grandma Chelle!

And drumroll please..... AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR! She wanted one of these so badly!

Very exciting!

Look at that awesome pink!

-that awesome pink set me back 10 more bucks than just the plain one!

Dad rockin' out before he left for work. Oh yeah and now he's BALD!

Bad haircut = shaving your own head totally bald! :)

Wish #4 - making things explode...well not quite.

Wish #5 eating dinner on the couch while watching TV

-Usually a big no no!

Wish #6 was an extra bedtime story - no pictures of that one either.

Wish #7 was to go see Madagascar 2 on Friday - it was HYSTERICAL!

So the wishes were for the actual day of her birthday today -Saturday- we had her party. It was a carnival theme and we had a BLAST! The pictures of the kids actually playing the games were pretty blurry -Joe wasn't using the flash - but here is what we did...

The first game we played was "Lucky Cups" throw a ball into the cup

and try to hit the colored ones for points.

Then we did a bean bag toss.

Here is a random picture of the cake. I have never in my life stacked

a cake and decorated it. It was fun!

What do you think?

The table

the decorations

the cupcakes...decorated by Haylee

the adult friends from r to l

Eric, Ally (little friend), Lisa, Troy, Erica, Meta, Sheena, Hermione, and Matt

What a fab group! T and E drove all the way from Pennsylvania!

The kids picking their bean bags. Sierra and I made them.

The cake with the candles

Singing to the birthday girl

The mysterious fortune tellers. You should have heard some of their awesome predictions.

*If you put on your coat....you will be warm.

*You will recieve presents on December 25th.

*You will recieve a treat before the end of the day.

Scary how right on they were!

Here is the mysterious fortune teller on another day. I mentioned above how Sierra and I made the bean bags. I have been teaching her how to sew and she is LOVING it. She is making a rag quilt for a Young Women's project. I have had such a great time teaching her.

She is doing GREAT!

Cutting fabric while grandma was here.