Double Digits!

October is a very busy month for us.  One of the highlights of the month is both Rachel and Abby celebrate their birthdays.  This year however, we had a baby due right between their birthdays so we decided to celebrate early.  Abby got to have her party first.  We decided on a growing theme, like plants and flowers etc...  We had fun decorating with flowers, leaves, pumpkins, tomatoes and other types of growing things.  She invited a few friends to come for a sleepover.  We ate pizza, played a growing things scavenger hunt, painted flower pots and planted flowers.  We also had a Scripture Treasure Hunt to find out what God's word has to say about growing, and watched The Secret Garden. For her "cake" she asked a neighbor to make dirt pudding.  It was in a flower pot with silk flowers and looked like a real plant.   What a fun time they had!

beautiful birthday girl

birthday "cake"

decorating the sidewalk

Painting flower pots

playing trampoline games in the cold morning air

All but one of her friends who came to the party with their flowers