We May Not Have It All Together, But Together We Have It All: Makenna's 11th Birthday

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Makenna's 11th Birthday

So everyone could be a part of Makenna's birthday, we had to stretch the celebration out over several days.

Tuesday, we met at Olive Garden with Rick's family to celebrate Makenna's birthday as well as Aunt Niki's, Uncle Brian's and Aunt Marlene's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALL!

Thursday, we took cupcakes (and leftover cake from Tuesday) to homeschool gym class to share with her friends.

Saturday, we surprised Makenna by having Nana & Pappy bring two of her friends to Aunt Mel's baby shower. She was so shocked and excited to see them!

I thought it was funny that Makenna and her friend Hailey both came back to the table with a pile of olives! Peas in a pod they are. Madison and Hailey's sister, Elizabeth, both came back with identical plates of salad, chicken, cheese and ranch dressing. We're so thankful our girls have such great friends.

After we cleaned up from the baby shower, we headed over to Aunt Mel & Uncle Josh's house for Makenna's party! There we had another surprise for Makenna ~ her Ohio friend, Faith!

Aunt Mel had lots of games planned for the kids . . .

Bean bag toss

Relays

Who can hold the most ballons?

Then it was present time. (Makenna came to me at one point during the party and said, "We took a vote and everyone thinks we should open presents." HA! Wonder whose idea that was??)

Makenna received some very nice things: clothes, money, a new Leapster to replace her worn out one, American Girl doll clothes . . .

Crochet needles, pattern book for crocheting, yarn . . .

Gift card to JoAnns . . .

and a guitar to start taking lessons!

She loves horses right now and wanted a horse cake. We had talked about doing a more elaborate cake where the horses walk up a trail to a higher part of the cake, but I was a bit limited on time with the baby shower. She loved this cake, and I had fun working with chocolate to make some of the decorations.