Birthday Party

We had a real  nice birthday party for Busy Bee.  We are  blessed to have family who live close by, which brings so many cousins to her party.  There were 13 children and Big J (7) is the oldest!  It was to be a pool party and although the weather turned cloudy and slightly windy and chilly, the kids didn't seem to mind.

The picture below is so sweet, because Busy Bee

put her arms around both mom and dad and pulled

us close to herself with a BIG smile!

As mentioned in previous posts, her Birthday theme was "Zoo Train.!"  

She loves animals and she truly wants to be a TIGER when she grows up.

So, below she is showing her cousins her ROAR!

Unlike the other morning when we sang to her,

she enjoyed it at the party when everyone sang.

Then the blowing out of candles!  

She had a lot of help with this....I think

all the cousins gave a blow.

Everyone enjoyed cake and ice cream.

Little J usually finds Grandpa, because he knows

Grandpa will share with him.  After Grandpa was done, Little J

wasn't too happy to be finished with the cake and ice cream.

He walked over to the trash and found this cup, which still had

ice cream in it.  Aunt Kelly may have helped him 

grab it out and gave it to him.
(I knew it was his sister's cup and she had 

just put it in the trash).  Boy, was Little J

excited to be walking around with his very OWN cup of

ice cream!

Busy Bee giving Grandma a hug thanking her for her gifts.

Lastly, we had a pinata.  It is so fun to watch the cousins all

enjoy trying to break open the pinata.  

We always line them up

youngest to oldest and it worked out perfectly again that everyone 

got to go twice before Big J busted it completely open.

Little J wasn't in the line for hitting the pinata.

But he was watching.  Afterwards he found

the bat and enjoyed hitting at the broken pinata several times.

He is so adorable...his little grunts as he tries so

hard to be just like the big kids!

We were blessed to have good weather, 

fun guests and just a really nice party and time with family.

To see Busy Bee's smile on her face the entire evening and then

to hear her say before bed "Thank you for the party mom!" make it 

all worth it!  Once again we just praise the Lord for her!