Yes, yes. I am a horrible blogger. Honestly, I think about blogging often… but then life keeps going and I get sidetracked… and then it turns into weeks between blog posts. I just went out and looked at the blog itself and realized that, as bad as the basketball season has turned for the Hogs, I might want to think about a new banner! So sad… But that is another post on its own.
So what have we been doing? Well, I have managed to become addicted to Facebook! I even got Marcus on there and he has found friends that he hasn't heard from in a long time. So if you are out on Facebook, look us up!
So Kacy turned eleven last month! It is hard to imagine that my baby girl is that old. We informed her that since she is older, her parties would start getting smaller and her presents might get a little larger. Thankfully she was receptive to that idea so I didn't have to plan a big shin-dig. But even with a "smaller party," we still ended up celebrating her birthday the entire week! Ha!
It started on Monday when we celebrated with her class. Her class was scheduled to go to the symphony onindiana jones back again her actual birthday, so we celebrated the day before. I brought up brownies and cookies to share with the class. Here's a pic of Kacy trying to ignore her mom in the back of the room with a camera…
Tuesday was her true birthday… but poor thing ended up with just a normal ole' day… well, except for the fact that she was given an iPod Nano while she worked on her homework! That doesn't happen just any ole' day! We had a deal with her that she had to pay $100 towards the Nano and we would pay the rest as herchoose halloween mask to make the perfect halloween costume birthday present. As she received gift cards over the next few days she just handed them over to me until we hit $100. Then she got to keep the rest. Not a bad deal for her, really. Here's a pic of the purple Nano - just the color she wanted…
Wednesday we went out to eat to celebrate her birthday. She chose Carino's. Such a good little girl – and her tastes have truly expanded over the last few months. Thankfully she isn't all about mac'n'cheese or hot dogs (although Abby is). She has added several pasta dishes to her selection, so she was happy to be at Carino's. Of course, I took a pic of her meal – mostly because I was so excited that she didn't order chicken nuggets (although Abby did). Of course, the downside of this is that we have to PAY for her to not eat off of the kiddy menu!
I think Thursday was the only day th10 halloween costumes in 2008at we didn't do something specific to celebrating the birthday – outside of preparing the house for the party. Abby had basketball practice, so that had us on the go for the evening.
Friday was the big day of the party. She had asked for a slumber party, and I had asked that we keep it small. We invited just four girls to spend the night, so I had five 11-12 year old girls for the evening. They were a BREEZE! Of course, I was wondering what was going on when we had two neighborhood boys sneak in the house for the pizza and cake. Haha – they are good boys that Kacy plays with all of the time, so it was fine. Once they had their cake, I pushed them on out of the door and back to their houses. The girls went upstairs, made up dances, and did all of those things that girls do at slumber parties… we had nail polish, singing, hairstyles… you know. Kacy had a lot of fun… although she didn't agree to me taking pictures… UGH. Here is one photo I managed to snap when they weren't paying too much attention to me…
Now – do you see that purple thing there on the front of the table? "What could that be," you are wondering… well, it was the CAKE! My dear friend, Erica, made this iPod cake for Kacy! It was AWESOME! I had asked her to make it and she SOOOO exceeded my expectations! Here are some close-ups (which I did get pictures of because the cake can't roll its eyes and hold its hand up in front of my lens!)…
Seriously – look at the detail! See the charge bar on the bottom? And HEAVENS – LOOK at those ear buds! I couldn't BELIEVE it when I saw this! She even made it purple – just like Kacy's new iPod!
So THANK YOU, Erica! You are fabulous and you totally made Kacy's party! The girls absolutely LOVED the cake! And I can attest to you that this cake was DELICIOUS!
That was Kacy's birthday-week. She had fun and she is so happy to be 11. We have been busy doing all kinds of things with her to prepare for the transition to middle school next year. We are so happy with our school and everything they are doing to help us prepare. We have had THREE different events at either the elementary school or the middle school to prepare for the move next year. I feel so good with this move.
Alright – I'm going to update my calendar so that I get REMINDERS to update the blog! Maybe that will keep me focused a bit better…
Until next time! Hugs!!
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