Adri's 12th Birthday!

Adri talked us into giving her this awesome bike a day early.  On her Birthday she woke up at 5:30 a.m., got herself ready and headed out to ride her bike for a couple of hours before school started.  I think she likes it!

Adri started out her birthday on Thursday having a party with the Sorensen bunch.

Adri loved all of her birthday gifts!  These are big jawbreakers on a stick!

Her second party was Friday after school.

Her friends walked home with her and they immediately got busy and painted their own picture frames.  We had a picture of all of them sent to the one hour photo so they could have a fun reminder of the party.

After we finished the frames we headed up to Adri's grandpa and grandma's house to eat pizza and watch a movie in their theater room.

It was a fun day!!!  Happy Birthday Adri!
You're growing up so fast!

Tori's 14!!!

May 1st is a happy\sad day for our family.  Seven years ago on Tori's 7th birthday my dad passed away.  Yesterday we all got together as a family and had dinner and then went to the cemetery to remember grandpa.  My mom gave us all this cute picture of my dad - the way we all like to remember him with a big, wide grin and being just a little goofy wearing a cowboy hat that's too small. You can see why the grandkids absolutely adored him and miss him so much.  We all miss him!  After we went to the cemetery we came to our house to celebrate Tori's birthday and eat Oreo dessert.  YUM!

Tori wanted this cute little owl on her invitation and we even found a cute balloon with an owl and all of her fun colors.  Bright and cheery - love how it turned out.

Allie posed so cute for both Tori and Grandma Sorensen.  Grandma Lorae thought she was darling.

Grandma Bonnie, Tori and Grandpa Mike

Kade (a.k.a. Pirate), Tate & Cinch

Tori opening all of her gifts as Adri, Josie, Gracie and Brooke watch.

We got her hair stuff because she's getting to that age where she likes to look perty!  Love ya Tori hope you had a wonderful day!!! :)

Happy 11th Birthday Adri!!!

Adri designed and made her own birthday cards this year - she did an awesome job!  They were a lot of work for her and she was very glad to be done after making enough to give to family.

Tori made Adri's birthday sign.  LOVE IT!

Adri wanted to serve cupcakes for the treat since she put a cupcake on the invitation.  We also found a new treat that was wrapped in orange and had blue writing to go along with her colors.  If you haven't tried 'Reese's Whipps' you need to give them a try.  YUM!

 

Jake and I decorated the best we could. :)

Amber, Kade, Kevin and Grandma Sorensen

Kade, Cole and Tate playing with Adri's guinea pigs.

Beautiful Kacie.

Josie, Wendy and Mallory hiding away.

Hayes and cute little Addie.

Grandpa Mike, Grandma Bonnie, Emma, Taylor (she has the same b-day as Adri), Tori and little baby Allie.

Adri absolutely LOVES the game LIFE.  She plays it with Grandma Sorensen for HOURS!!!  So we decided it was time for her to have her own.

Adri also got an origami book that should keep her very entertained.  She received lots of fun presents and was a pretty happy girl.  Thanks to our family for all the fun gifts and for coming to Adri's awesome birthday!

Adri & Taylor's Birthday Party!

Adri looked so cute in her new birthday skirt for church yesterday!  She even got a turquoise Choose the Right ring that glows in the dark.

I saw this hair -do on one of the hair blogs I follow and LOVED it!  So cute for Valentine's Day.

After church Tori and Jake made this cute sign for the party.  Taylor and Adri both celebrate their birthday's on February 16th.  Adri turns 10 and Taylor turns 3.  This year Adri begged to celebrate together.  When Taylor arrived they were both pretty hyper and had to run off some steam with our dog Jasper. 

The cute birthday girls!

Admiring their cake Taylor's mom brought.  Thanks Lisa!

Opening gifts!

Adri ONLY wanted an iPod for her birthday.  Her dad spoiled her with an iPod Touch!  She was very excited and stayed up WAY too late last night playing games and figuring everything out.

Blowing out the candles!

Adri and Olivia with Zeke, Gaz and Emma in the background.

Tori and Taylor.

Adri and her newest cousin Addison.

Justus is 14!

We had Justus' birthday party last night.  It's hard to believe he's 14 already!

Justus chose to have something 'pumpkiny' for his birthday dessert.  So I found a recipe called Pumpkin Surprise.  Luckily it was really yummy and everyone including the birthday boy liked it.  Justus and I are a little matchy in this picture, that was just a coincidence.  But, HELLO!  He's taller than me.  UGH!

Jake and I decided to open a checking account for Justus for his birthday.  We figure it will help him earn his Money Management Merit Badge and help him on his way towards his Eagle.  He loved it!  Everyone gave him money, so of course he was in heaven.

This is Justus' invite.  I used a retired Stampin' Up! set for it -- thanks for the loan Tracy!  I'm really wishing I would have held onto some of my old sets!

Justus' actual birthday was on September 16th.  So we made him dinner and brownies.  Adri insisted on candles, but the candles didn't cooperate so well.  Justus was trying to hold them up as we sang Happy Birthday to him.

The girls gave him their gifts.  This is a small tape measure that Tori found for him.  He's been wanting a small one to keep in his pocket because apparently he measures a lot of things???  Anyway, we had a good laugh because we could only find a pink and a purple tape measure so Tori picked purple.  He loved it!  Adri gave him lighters because you never know when you're gonna need a light???  Seriously the things this kid carries around in his pockets.  It's gotta weigh a ton!  Adri also gave him an air horn.  She decided that it would be a good idea to wake him up with it on his birthday morning and then make him breakfast.  The kid does love his food, so breakfast was a big hit and the air horn was too.  Luckily he didn't get kicked out of school when he blew it in the hall!

Have a great year Justus!