Jaren's 8th Birthday

Katie got invited to Jaren's birthday. It was a small party, with only 5 kids including his little brother and Emma. His Mom did a great job decorating the house cute for his party- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme. The kids played a few games, Katie won a TMNT toy for a prize, so she gave it to Emma LOL. They played on the trampoline and with his toys in his room, just hanging out and having fun together. Emma was harassing Camden, because they both wanted to play with the same toy, which usually happens with the younger kids I'm finding out :p It was a good party though, I'm glad Katie was able to see Jaren, I know she misses him now that they don't go to school together. I even found a shirt for Katie to wear, to match the theme, that she liked =)

Swimming With Jaren

I used the last of my free Drytown tickets today to let Jaren in to swim with us. Katie and Jaren plan to get married one day, when they're much older. Jaren already calls Katie his wife, and Katie says that he will probably be her boyfriend when she gets bigger. Haha. As long as he's nice to her, it's okay with me :p The kids had a lot of fun swimming. Katie even played with the squirt gun things, which she never does, because she hates water in her face. I was so proud of her for being brave today and having fun =)

Leah's Getting Married

My old job was throwing a small party for Leah, since most of us weren't invited to the wedding, but they wanted to get her a gift. They invited me and the kids to go, so I did. It was a "Pantry Party" where we were supposed to bring cleaning supplies or spices and things you would find in a panty. She got tons of doubles, but the nice thing about that is, you can always use cleaning supplies!

On another note- Emma has 2 teeth! =)

Boo Voyage Rachel

Rachel is moving away =( Her family is going to live in Washington with some of her other family members as well as her brother who is in college over there. I am going to miss her!! We had a goodbye party for her tonight, with the cool kids from work. Glad they invited me! Christy wanted to make it a pj party so everyone would be comfy and we could just hang out.

 Camden trying to kiss Emma.

 Christy takes her holidays seriously. And since it's so close to Halloween... =)

 Even Katie and Jaren wore pj's.

 It was nice having dinner and hanging out with everyone. I miss my co-workers, they were fun =) I hope Rachel does great in her new city and has a good life, but I also hope she remembers us and thinks of us and visits!

Good luck in your life Rachel, you're a wonderful person and I hope you get everything good in life!

Camden's 1st Birthday

Christy invited Katie and me to Camden's first birthday, over in Tehachapi where her parents live. Rachel went too, of course! =)

 Katie brought her swim suit so she could play in the pool with Jaren.They were splashing and having fun.

 They were sledding down the dirt hill on sleds they had from winter. Looked fun. They're cute.

 Cute party, Katie had so much fun. She is so silly, she kept changing back into her clothes, then back into her swim suit, then back to her clothes, swim suit, over and over again. Crazy girl couldn't make up her mind if she was done swimming for the day or not. Glad we were invited =)

Katie's 6th Birthday!

Katie chose to have a glow party for her 6th birthday, at Mulligan's.We went to look at the room a few weeks ago, to see if she liked it, and she did!

I ordered her a simple cute birthday shirt =)

They had a table cloth set out with highlighters that the kids could draw all over.

My Mom made her cake! Katie wanted a Wreck-It-Ralph theme, so Sugar Rush was tied into that! :p

She always gets way too many presents, but I'm thankful for everything she gets. So glad she has so much family and friends that care about her and want to gift her with things.

I'm pretty sure this Peter Pan doll Desiree bought her is her favorite present! She adores Peter Pan and hopes to marry him when she gets older.

In line for Lazer Tag

The little kid Go-Karts.

Bumper Boats

Mini-Golf

Their prizes from playing in the arcade.

 After the pizza and cake, we all went off to play. Each kid was given 20 tokens and a wristband to go on the rides. Hannah, Madison and Jaren stuck with Katie, while everyone else went their own way. Katie had a lot of fun playing with them. I think they were able to do everything at least once, but the wristbands only worked for 2 hrs, so it did go by pretty quickly! The lines were long =/ Katie invited her friend Claire from school, who didn't want to ride anything, I felt bad, it seemed like she was bored =/ Hopefully she had a fun time too. I enjoyed myself, and Katie did too! =)

Christmas Lights With Jaren

Lancaster has a small street that decorates for Christmas every year. We got the kids together to go do that, and Katie wanted to be fancy for Jaren, so she packed her Christmas dress in her backpack today when she went to school. She said "he's going to say I'm so beautiful in this dress." haha. Love her sooo much. She's so cute. Christy's house is decorated so pretty for every occasion, she has a few big Christmas trees that she decorated beautifully.

We stayed in the car because it was cold out, and Camden ended up crying the whole time, because he hates the car right now. Haha. But OTHER THAN THAT! Fun night for the kids, lol. Leah and Rachel aren't in the pictures, but they went too =)

Play Date With Jaren

Katie keeps asking and asking to see Jaren, so, I set up a play date for her. She got dressed up fancy.

Then they played and played and played.

And Camden just hung out with his Mommy. lol

These two kids crack me up. Glad they had a fun day together.