For her birthday we decided to celebrate by throwing a slumber party! Yeah, right. How about a pajama party with breakfast for dinner, cereal necklaces, decorating pillowcases, getting your nails done, movie and popcorn and go home and sleep in your own bed!
Apologies for the grainy pictures!
Ali is doing the splits here. Her new accomplishment is being able to do a back bend. She put her cereal necklace on her head as a headband.
Daddy made chocolate chip silver dollar pancakes with fun toppings for the kids.
The kids decorated their own pillowcases with fabric markers.
The Chen girls brought their nail polish and nail stamps for the younger girls. Garrett and Josiah passed on this activity. I wonder why. You could find them playing with cars.
Check out Sammie's flower stamped toes!
Look who was caught stealing popcorn from the other kids' popcorn containers!
The kids are ready to watch their movie! The Chens brought Surf's Up! Our kids loved it!
After the movie it was time for cake - mint chocolate chip to be exact.
Josiah was so excited about blowing out his sister's candle!
All the kids in their pajamas and they are ready for their cake!
Auntie Shirley and Uncle Victor sent Magnatiles for our girls and everyone had a blast playing with them!
The next day we went to the wedding rehearsal and the rushed over to Biola for their production of Annie! It is such a heartwarming production! Thanks Auntie Wendy, Amanda, and Nicole for joining us!
Christiana and Melissa were orphans in Annie!
Here are orphans: Christiana and Adriane- Ali's friends from 101 Dalmatians! All three of them will be in Willy Wonka together!
Laura and the girls! It was a bit bright for Sammie! Laura had a number of roles. We are so proud of all of the girls! Laura is now one of Ali's teen leaders in Willy Wonka! She is such a treasure and a blessing!
After the show, Ali chose to go to Joe's Crabshack for dinner. We had just been there for Nicole's dinner and she obviously had so much fun that she wanted to go there again! There is a playground right next to the tables and someone who makes balloons for the kids!
Sammie and her crown
Josiah and his Elmo. Here he is pointing at his eyes. Look, Elmo's yen xing!
Krispy Kreme was right next to Joe's crabshack. So we had to make a stop!
Happy 7th Birthday, Ali!
Daddy made chocolate chip silver dollar pancakes with fun toppings for the kids.
The kids decorated their own pillowcases with fabric markers.
The Chen girls brought their nail polish and nail stamps for the younger girls. Garrett and Josiah passed on this activity. I wonder why. You could find them playing with cars.
Check out Sammie's flower stamped toes!
Look who was caught stealing popcorn from the other kids' popcorn containers!
The kids are ready to watch their movie! The Chens brought Surf's Up! Our kids loved it!
After the movie it was time for cake - mint chocolate chip to be exact.
Josiah was so excited about blowing out his sister's candle!
All the kids in their pajamas and they are ready for their cake!
Auntie Shirley and Uncle Victor sent Magnatiles for our girls and everyone had a blast playing with them!
The next day we went to the wedding rehearsal and the rushed over to Biola for their production of Annie! It is such a heartwarming production! Thanks Auntie Wendy, Amanda, and Nicole for joining us!
Christiana and Melissa were orphans in Annie!
Here are orphans: Christiana and Adriane- Ali's friends from 101 Dalmatians! All three of them will be in Willy Wonka together!
Laura and the girls! It was a bit bright for Sammie! Laura had a number of roles. We are so proud of all of the girls! Laura is now one of Ali's teen leaders in Willy Wonka! She is such a treasure and a blessing!
After the show, Ali chose to go to Joe's Crabshack for dinner. We had just been there for Nicole's dinner and she obviously had so much fun that she wanted to go there again! There is a playground right next to the tables and someone who makes balloons for the kids!
Sammie and her crown
Josiah and his Elmo. Here he is pointing at his eyes. Look, Elmo's yen xing!
Krispy Kreme was right next to Joe's crabshack. So we had to make a stop!
Happy 7th Birthday, Ali!
awww...i'm so sad to be missing these birthdays! what a FUN party, teresa! loved the slumber party idea! can't believe that ali is 7 either--they are growing up fast. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ali!!! hope you had a wonderful time celebrating. we love you! (auntie lillian. in case this comes up as mitch's account.)
ReplyDeleteLOVE all the pictures, teresa! :) it was so fun to live vicariously through these pictures. :D and ali looked SOOO pretty in her cake picture. what a fun and packed post!
ReplyDeleteawh the party looked like so much fun! you guys do such fun things all the time! can we play together sometime?!:)
ReplyDeleteLillian - Ali says, "Thank you for the note."
ReplyDeleteEmily- Thanks for joining us through pictures. I do the same through Jonathan's blog I even go as far as imagining I'm skyping with you on your mom's night out! Ha! That was definitely a packed couple of days!
Michelle - Thanks for reading my blog and commenting! YES! Let's meet up! I'm in La Mirada almost every Monday starting August 22nd. That would be so fun!
yes. thanks for sharing your pictures! it is so good to see what you guys did on ali's birthday. ali is growing up so fast and growing more and more beautiful. happy birthday, ali! and teresa, i love that scripture on your wall. i don't remember if i saw that before (i might've even commented on it before but i don't remember now). but it just struck me. i love that, especially as your family's testimony of your dependence on Him and His goodness to you. thank you for that encouraging word. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mitch! Thanks for your comments. We thought the verse was fitting for our family especially after He carried us through Josiah's birth and everything. Yes, it is a reminder of His goodness to us!
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