Happy Birthday, Bria!!!

I can't believe that Bria turned 7!! Holy cow!

For her birthday this year, she really wanted to have a friend party. It was really fun to watch Bria and all the anticipation she had for her birthday. I do have to say one thing....friend birthday for a 7 year old are way easier than friend birthdays for a 3 year old. Bria and I sat down and decided what we wanted to do. We decided it would be fun to have a pizza party. Then, we made the invitations and I gave them to Bria to hand out to whomever she wanted. She gave a couple to neighborhood kids and a couple to school friends. It was a really fun group! Bria's done a great job at making good friends.

We had the kids make their own mini-pizzas.

 Thanks so much to Dave for helping them not put too little or too much!

Their pizzas turned out fabulous! Bria made a cute face with hers. It even had ears and earrings (although it looks like by the time we took the picture, she had already eaten one ear).

Instead of a birthday cake, I tried my hand a second time at Bakerella's beautiful cake pops. Here's what I was going for:

Aren't they beautiful? Bakerella really makes them seem easy to make, too. Instead of flawless, beautiful cakepops, this is what we ended up with:

 

They did taste good, though. 

Next, Bria got to open her presents:

 

Afterward, the kids headed downstairs and watched How to Train Your Dragon.

It was a great night! Happy Birthday, Bria! We love you!

Halloween 2010

Halloween was fun this year. I didn't know how it would go since it actually landed on a Sunday. We also missed the ward trunk-or-treat and the school fall carnival. I was worried that it was slated to be the worst Halloween on record. But, it wasn't. It was really fun!

Bria dressed up as Daphne from Scooby Doo. She was in love with the costume when we found it at the store. The kids have a little bit of a Scooby Doo obsession right now.

 

Some people had a hard time seeing it. Bria mostly got..."What are you this year?" So, here's a Scooby Doo picture to compare:

Max was Bumblebee from Transformers:

 

I love how he has a huge smile underneath his mask.

Logan went as an adorable puppy:

We went trick-or-treating on Saturday night. Because we live in such a strong LDS community, when holidays fall on a Sunday, people tend to celebrate on Saturday. We didn't get even one trick-or-treater on Sunday, but we got quite a few on Saturday.

We saved carving pumpkins until Monday and we did that for Family Home Evening. I know it was technically November by this point, but whose counting, right?

We had Bria and Max draw what they wanted their pumpkin to look like:

Then, Dave helped them actually carve it:

 

Bria's was a cat and Max's was a scarecrow: