Birthday Party

Well, we've had our final birthday party of the spring. We celebrated Lydia's 7th birthday with our family on Sunday afternoon. (She & Fran will spend an afternoon at MOA going on some rides and having lunch one of these days in the near future . . . she chose that over having a "friend party" at home this year).

One of her very fun presents
(paid for by Ama, picked out by her big brother):

The ice cream cake she requested and picked out at DQ
(she wanted the one "with lots of gel", how appetizing!):

What remains of her black eye
(she got kicked in the head standing near the monkey bars the other day at recess and had a nice shiner for her 7th birthday):

Most of the "girls" at the party:
(Ama, me, Anna, GG, Al, Ava, Rebekah & the birthday girl):

After a whirlwind season of celebration (5 kids with birthdays all in 10 weeks) we can sit back and relax for another 42 weeks and then do it all over again (we have 11, 9, 2, 5 and 8 coming up in 2010!)

Happy 7th birthday, LJ!