Eve's Birthday

Eve turned 7 on September 26Th and we decided to have a park birthday party, it was perfect. We had it after school from 4:00 - 5:30 and some kids had soccer games so they stayed for more like an hour. We had just enough time to play cut the cake and play some more and do presents and a little more playing. And the weather was so fine, not too hot or cold. It was a very enjoyable day.
Anna, Amanda, Eve, Liz and Piper.
I wasn't sure what exactly I should do for party favors and I didn't know how many girls were coming. So I tried to think of age appropriate stuff for them and it was a hit! I got a bunch of stickers, big suckers, huge costume rings of all colors, and whistles with pink sparkly string to tie them around their necks. It was perfect for the park with wide open spaces were they could whistle away and run to the hearts content.
Jackson met a little boy that happened to be there that Mim knew. He was having so much fun on the playground with him. It was nice because Jackson is usually by himself or trying to play with Eve's friends and it makes him sad and that makes me feel bad too.
This is my cutie patootie. Manti was such a good boy at the party, he was so entranced with all the kids moving around everywhere.

It's really hard to believe he is now 10 months old, Oh boy! His birthday is around the corner. I think we are doing something different with his first birthday, maybe some kind of smorgasbord of foods from all the places of our family heritage instead of the luau that is normally done. We'll see, it would have to be Swedish, German, French (we are still clarifying that one) English, Norwegian, Samoan of course and Danish. It would be so fun.

Piper and Eve and Stella in the back.
This is Amanda, Stella, Eve and Emma.
Eve chose a Littlest Pet Shop birthday cake, it was very adorable. She is dead set on blue these days, which is fine with me because it has always been my favorite color. The cake was yummy chocolate with raspberry filling.
Eve had such a blast. She got these webkinz things that I guess are all the rage. She ended up getting some more pet shop stuff which is what she really wanted too.

At nigh we had a low key family party with our friends the Dooleys and the Grandparents. We had pizza and left over birthday cake and frosted brownies with sprinkles. What kid doesn't love sprinkles? Over all it was quite a good birthday, not too stressful.