Last Saturday we celebrated Annah's 8th birthday with the traditional birthday donuts and brunch. Annah opened a gift she has been wishing and hoping for for many, many months: roller-skates! She was so excited. Grammie and Grandpa came just before lunch and babysat the younger three children for the afternoon so Shane and I could take the girls to the Nutcracker in Portland. We were able to get an amazing deal on tickets through a homeschool group and it was so exciting to walk around the city together and then go to the Keller Auditorium for the ballet. We had a little trouble getting out the door as we were all overtired and we also had a sad moment when we had to throw away full, just purchased cups of fancy Starbucks drinks because they wouldn't let us have them in the ballet lobby. But aside from those things we had such a good time being with just our two girls. Afterwards we came home for cake and ice cream with Grammie and Grandpa as well as Mimi, Chip and Sasa. Nothing was better for Annah then having everyone there together.
On Monday afternoon Annah had a few girlfriends over for a birthday party. She wanted to have a Wizard of Oz theme so we decorated the house with rainbows, ate rainbow cupcakes, had a Dorothy Beauty Parlor, watched a clip of the Wiz of Oz movie while making candy/snack necklaces and played some games. Annah loved every minute of it!
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