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Thursday, August 17, 2017

The Day Lucy Turned 7 . . .

Lucy's birthday turned out to be a full day of fun!  As soon as I came home from my run, the girls squealed in excitement - finally they could come downstairs.  The girls came down and checked out the wrapped - and unwrapped - gifts.  After breakfast, I started baking the cake and making the homemade strawberry ice-cream.  I had all the kids help make the decorations for Lucy's Moana cake and they all had fun doing that - plus, the decorations turned out awesome.

We left for Grand Junction a little after 10:30.  Our first stop was Old Navy.  I have lots of "free" money I earn from my credit card and so I told each kid they had $30 to buy whatever - which turned out to be a big mistake for my boys, who picked out some of the most odd clothing that Old Navy offers.  Ha.  The girls got some cute stuff and I ended up only paying $10 cash - for tax.  So that was awesome.

The kids got to eat lunchables for lunch and that was a treat since they get them like twice a year.  Then we went to Get Air.  A trampoline jumpy place.  Emmy had gone before, but the rest of us had only heard about it.  We decided to take the kids there in honor of both girls' birthdays.  It did not disappoint and the kids had a fabulous time.  We paid for 1-hour and were able to stay for about 80 minutes.  The kids were very tired afterwards!  Emmy got an aerial on the tramp and she was super excited about that!  It was really fun there.

Then it was back home . . . luckily Ben had just gotten home as well and so Lucy could open her gifts.  She got many neat gifts - including a tablet.  Emmy was amazed and probably even more excited than Lucy was.  :)  Lucy will get to do her online homework on it, plus use it for their weekly game-time.

All year long whenever we'd have a yummy dinner, Lucy would exclaim, "This is what I want for my birthday dinner!"  Well she couldn't remember what any of those meals were and so she declared that she wanted to ride bikes to Colorado Boy (a restaurant) and have dinner there.  Done!  We had a delicious dinner there and a fun bike-ride, too.

We came home and watched Moana, stopping 1/2 way through for some cake and ice-cream.  Then we finished the movie, read a book and the girls went to bed - listening to the new Moana CD Lucy got . . . Can you tell Lucy loves Moana?  :)

What a fun day celebrating a fun new 7-year old (plus her older sister, too)!

 She's 7!  Since she was born at like 5:30am, she really was 7 by this time - my kids like to make sure about that type of stuff.  :)

 Her Moana figurines weren't wrapped - as they were needed for our cake!  Lucy loves playing with them
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 Too cute in her new outfit from Grandma Dixie!

 The kids all helping make the fondant decorations for the cake.

 The kids all loved the cake and it was fun that they all got to help make it awesome!

 At Get Air!

 Wahoo, so fun!

 I'm sure we'll be back sometime again.

 Happy birthday to Lucy, happy birthday to you . . .

Make a wish . . .for another awesome year of life!

1 comment:

erinmalia said...

She is the cutest. Seriously. Happy birthday Lucy!