Flower's family party

Later in the evening of April 19th was the family party for Flower at Roger's house.
My friend Baily made this Elsa Cake and Flower was so surprised!

She got some lovely dresses!

And dome fun toys!

Another year of being spoiled.  We sure love Flower and what she adds to our family.  She sings her way through life.  Literally, sings all.the.time! She's thoughtful, tender hearted, and has a zest for life. We love you Flower!

Flower's friend party

Our friends own the Reel theaters. They gave us a great deal to have Flower's birthday party there! It was quite wonderful. She could invite as many people as she wanted and we didn't have a mess to clean up. She invited her class at school as well as friends from church, family friends, and family. We all had a great time!

She opened all her gifts in the lobby.

Guests:
Back row-Kassidee, Sydney, Pearl, Hariette, Georgia, Madelaine
Middle row-River, Julie, Tristan, Quinn, Flower, Maizy, Keirsten, Lily, Allie, Claire, Allison
Front row-Nevaeh, Mia, Tia, Lucas
Not pictured-Sandee, KG, Angee, Lorena, Jade, Spencer,Corina

Each person got a popcorn and soda.

Then it was movie time, The Nut Job!

Happy 9th Birthday, Flower!

Flower is 9!!!  The morning of her birthday, April 18th, she requested Mac-and-cheese and chocolate milk for breakfast. River and I went out to prepare it and get her gifts and balloons together. We then proceeded to carry it on a tray to our bedroom. Just before our closed door, River stand in front of me with the balloons, we started singing and it went something like this as she pushed the door open, "happy birthday to you, happy bir...oh shit!"  One of River's balloons hit the top of the door trim and came crashing down on my tray, knocking the milk into the mac and cheese and creating huge laughs. Hahaha.  Well we won't ever forget it. You can see the spilled milk on her tray. :)

She then open her gifts.  A shirt from Tammy, exactly what Flower wanted! "Being 9 is magical"

And one for River that said, "sister's are worth melting for"  Thank you Tammy!

River painted her this lovely mermaid.

We gave her a spirograph. I loved these when I was a kid!

She finally got her rainbow loom!

River wrote Flower's name on her card. More on that in the next blog post.

Flower is such an amazing sister, friend, and daughter. She is creative and artistic. She likes to doodle, play the piano, sing, and dance. We sure love her!