Well, it's July and I've been attempting to get this blog caught up since early spring. It obviously hasn't happened. So I'll start with the most significant event first. Then we'll piece together the remaining months.
Katie Mei's birthday was March 23, but we moved it up a week because we had a Disney cruise planned the following week. She had never had a party with more than just family members, and we wanted her fifth birthday to be a fun one, so we went all out and made it a unicorn-princess party. I don't usually do birthday parties, but I do make allowances for the fifth. Kids are old enough to get it by then, and they have enough friends to make a group. So I ordered a jumpy slide thing and a cake, printed some homemade invitations to pass out at Sunday School, asked Mindy to do the pinata, and we called it a party.
Mindy's pinata-making talent had to depart from her usual sea creature for Blake. She had to make a pink unicorn with purple trim. To say it was a challenge is an understatement, but it really was an awesome unicorn, and even after it's destruction we kept the head. It presently sits in my utility room awaiting the reattachment of it's horn.
The kids had a blast, even if I was too wimpy to use water on the slide for the birthday party. They had to do a dry slide. But we were fortunate that the delivery and pick-up guys didn't really want to work on the weekend so they let us have the slide until Monday. So the following Sunday was a very fun neighborhood day where we let the kids come over and get wet. I felt like I really got my money's worth from the slide rental.
Here are the long-awaited photos from Katie Mei's 5th birthday party.
