Mikayla's 9th Birthday Party

Today Mikayla turned 9 years old. Mikayla continues to amaze and suprise us with her abilities and personality.  Mikayla is a girly girl one minute and a country girl the next minute.  One minute she is playing dress-up , doing hair and make-up.  The next minute she's outside with John feeding chickens and rabbits, catching chickens for him and killing snakes with a shovel.  She isn't afraid of things.  She is a hard worker and she tries her best at everything.  She is a peacmaker. She wants to make sure everyone is happy and she doesn't want anyone to be mad at her.

Yesterday she had a party with her friends. This year we planned on doing a gymnastics/hip hop party at a local kids gym in town. But we ended up with an instructor who teaches mainly dance, so they learned a dance routine to some hip hop music and didn't get to do any gymnastics activities. After learning their dance routine we went to a pizza place for lunch, cupcakes, games and a little craft activity.

Warming up for hip-hop routine at Kid Time Fitness Company

 Starting the routine:

Top Row-Hannah, Emily,Hailee, Jordan, Ashlee
Bottom Row: Karah, Mikayla, Allison, Brooke, Julia

 Playing The Price is Right.  They had to guess the price of 7 items.  The one closest to the price won the item.

Mikayla opening her gifts

A wallet made out of Starburst papers to Mikayla from Hailee.

 For a couple of weeks now, Mikayla has been begging for a pink BB Gun.  John bought her a pink BB Gun.

Julia, Hannah, Emily and Ashlee

Mikayla, Allison, Karah, Jordan and Brooke

Top Row-Mikayla, Allison, Jordan, Emily, Hailee, Julia & Hannah
Bottom row- Brooke and Karah

These are the treat bags we put together for the girls.  The flower on the outside is a clip for their hair.