Brynn's Family Birthday Party

Saturday we kept with the art theme and celebrated Brynn's birthday with her family party. The roads were really icy, but thankfully most who were planning on coming made it to our house. Brynn requested pizza and since she doesn't care for cake, we thought it would be fun to do an ice cream sundae bar. She loves ice cream. And who doesn't love ice cream when it's 10 degrees outside? :-)

Thank you to everyone who came and for those who gave gifts! She spent the day on Sunday playing with all the fun things she got. And more of that today, as she was off of school for "Martin Lutheran King and Junior" day, as she calls it. Ha.

Thank you to my sister for some of the pictures below!

We displayed some of her artwork that she's done in the window. She was really excited for her tie-dye balloons.

Video of Brynn blowing her candles

I swear she has grown a foot since turning 7. :-( So grown up now.

She has been pining for this Play-doh dentist set for awhile. It is pretty fun actually.

Look out, Grandpa!

Bottoms up

Patty cake with Grandma

Project in progress here. Nothing a little duct tape couldn't take care of. Brynn was busy making a car for her pets and needed the seat to stay in place.

"Pests only" or Pets Only, rather. :-)

I don't think you have a real childhood unless you have sat inside a cardboard box for fun.

These are getting a little out of order here, but just some miscellany from the previous week.

This little stinker caused a monsoon in the kitchen tonight. She was getting pretty rambunctious for the infant tub... and big, so I thought I would try to bathe her in the sink. I don't think we'll be doing the sink route again! We were all so soaking wet by the end. You can see how wet just my sweatshirt is in this picture. Here is video of her trying to swim her way out of the sink. Crazy girl...

Crazy Clara in the sink

Clara is finally feeling better now. Once her fever broke last Sunday she seemed to be on the mend. Now she's just had a stuffy/sniffle nose and lingering cough, both of which are improving.

I had her to the walk-in clinic last Monday. This mask lasted all of about five minutes.

Sleepy snuggles with Dad.

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Somebody get that girl a paddle boat! Ha. Great party, Brynn! So glad we could be there.

January 19, 2015 at 11:12 PM

Cindy B said…

Fun fun fun!

January 19, 2015 at 11:43 PM

Anonymous said…

Great birthday party!

January 20, 2015 at 7:16 PM

shelly said…

that ice cream bar looks as fun as going to cherry berry. Clara's gonna be a swimmer.

January 20, 2015 at 7:54 PM

carrington said…

So fun to celebrate 7 years! Love the Clara bath video - hilarious.

January 20, 2015 at 8:28 PM

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