Kylie's Birthday Party!!

Kylie had her birthday party today. She seemed to have a great time today! Quite a few people showed up for it and seemed to enjoy themselves.

Kylie received some hair clips and hair ties, clothes, boots, money and Barbie's. We got her a Barbie purse that she could decorate. She, Kenzie and Amaurie all worked on coloring it for a while during the party. It's really cute.

We let her go to Wal-Mart this afternoon after her party and let her spend the money she got for her birthday. She ended up getting a barbie play set that has some sunglasses, phone, camera and purse, a Barbie puppy Wash set, and a big 'ol box of sidewalk chalk.

I think she enjoyed the most getting the chalk. She Mackenzie and Gabryle sat outside for a while playing with the chalk before dinner.

I'm glad the weather was great today to have her party! The kids got to play outside a lot and enjoyed running around.Check over on the Pictures page for more photos from her birthday party!!!

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What an idea......

Valentines Day is fast approaching, which means I am up for helping with Kylie's class party. Helping with the girls class parties are actually pretty fun. Yes Gabryle goes along with me, but he really enjoys being able to go up and seeing the older kids I think. He seemed to really enjoy when we went to help with Mackenzie's class party at Halloween.
The class "parent" for Kylie's class sent a note home with Kylie today for me about the party coming up. For their upcoming party, the six parents who have signed up to help are all asked to send $10.00 and each child in the class will get a Wacky Pack bought at Sonic. That will be the Valentines Party for the Pre-K class this year.  WOOHOO!! i know I shouldn't complain, but in all honesty, I think that the kids would probably like something else to do than just have a kids meal bought from a local fast food joint. I got a hold of the class Mom and she said that is all we will do and that there is nothing else that needs to be bought. I might just make some little treat bags to take anyway with me to the party.
Perhaps next school year I shall sign up to be one of the class parents for one of the girls classes.  I would say do both, but I am afraid that would get quite hectic having two classes to get parties set up for and helping the teachers do things that are needed help with. If I did that, then there wouldn't be a wacky pack Valentines Party for twenty four and five year old kids. Yes I think more thought could be put into the party for the kids, but it's not my party to plan. I offered to do extra and she said it wasn't needed, so I shall do my part and send the money and just next year make sure and sign up to be a class parent. Who knows, maybe I will do both of the girls classes next year. I bet it could be done with being a class parent for both of the girls.

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Mackenzie..

I have a big order to fill coming up in December. Mackenzie's birthday will of course be in December and she asked me if I can make her birthday cake this year, which I will gladly do for her. I enjoy doing the kids their cakes, and it saves money in the long run when I make them at home. I just find decorating the cakes is fun and you can be as creative with it as you can.
She told me today while we were out in a store looking around that she wants her cake to be round. It also needs to be two or three levels, with a real big cake on bottom and a medium cake and perhaps a small cake, but the big and medium cake for sure, with the medium cake on top of the big cake. (duh). She didn't say what type of cake or what to decorate it as yet, but for sure we know it must be circles. She has liked polka dots for a while now so that is not a big shocker there.
As we were driving home from the city she started giving us ideas of what she would like for her birthday, and then Kylie suggested she should have a Horse party as much as Mackenzie Loves horses! I think she finally decided that she would like a horse party, which would be neat to do. Jerrod had a great idea if we do that, to do the cake in green, like grass, and then put some miniature horses around the cake, which would work really well and look really cute too! She also wants this year to actually do a party that her classmates can come to also, so we'll work on that also. Not sure what all we will do yet but we still have plenty of time to figure that out!
Tomorrow she wants to look at cake ideas online so I bet we can look and find some ideas once she nails down what her party theme will be. We will have fun no matter what she decides to do.

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Party Weekend!!!

This weekend Mackenzie got to go to her first Slumber Birthday Party for one of her friends. She got home from School on Friday and finished packing her bag, signed her friends birthday card and was ready to go. It didn't start till 6:30 so we had three hours left till it started. I believe the time just went extremely slow for her. She asked almost every 10 minutes if it was time to go, or checked the clock to see the time. 6:15 finally came and we left to head to her friends house. We got there the same time one of the other girls and her mother showed up and we all went in together. I stayed and chatted for a few minutes, then told Mackenzie bye and Kylie Gabryle and I left. As we started towards the car, Gabryle started crying and yelling and pointing at the house. He fought to get his buckles in his car seat buckled and soon we were leaving. He pointed behind us out the back window and cried till we were halfway home. He did not like leaving his sister at someones house. I finally got him settled down by saying we were going to Wal-Mart and so we went and looked around for a little bit then went home and watched a movie.
We later picked Jerrod up from work and he took us to Braums and we got a little deal of ice cream for Gabryle and Kylie and let them stay up late and we had our own little party. The next morning, Saturday, I picked up Mackenzie around 8:30 and headed home. She had a great time at the party! They had a pillow fight, ate pizza and cake, watched Hannah Montana and stayed up late. Her friends mom told me that the girls stayed up till around 1 and then Kenzie was up along with a few of the other girls around 7. We have heard lots about the party since then and we're glad she had such a great time. After a long week for her she deserved having a good time with her friends just having fun.
Saturday we stayed at home and got things ready for Gabryle's birthday party, then Sunday had his party! Hard to believe he is 2 now. Seems like it has just flown by! He seemed to have a great time at his party. We grilled some hot dogs since that is one of his favorite foods and ate lunch. After letting lunch settle we let Gabryle open his presents. He had a blast opening presents!! We got him a few of the Toy Story Characters and a pair of boots which he Loved! Jerrod also got him a Tonka Dump truck, one of the good metal ones, not a cheap plastic one. He also got a lot of outdoor toys that he has had a  blast with!
We then had some cake and then sat around talking while the kids played in the bedrooms and a little in the living room. Everyone started leaving around 230, 300 and then we relaxed the rest of the day. we tried getting Gabryle to sit still to take a nap but he wouldn't. We ate our dinner and then around 7 Gabryle started getting extremely cranky. Jerrod picked him up and laid down on the sofa with him and Gabryle was out fast! He was passed out asleep before 7:30 and stayed asleep till he came in our room around 3 this morning before falling back asleep beside me in our bed.
All in all it was a good weekend for us! Mackenzie had a great end to a bad week, and we all got to celebrate Gabryle turning 2.

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