Julia's Birthday Party

To celebrate Julia's 8th birthday we took a few friends to see A Dog's Purpose.  Since we arrived early Julia and Ansley were watching the trailer for the movie in the car.  Julia is thrilled to be celebrating with her friends!

A quick photo after seeing A Dog's Purpose.  It was a good movie but we had some tears from a few of the girls...especially Julia.  Back row we have Ava (Grace's sister), Landry Rose (Julia's best friend in her second grade class), and Grace (best friend from 3 year old preschool).  In the front row we have Calder (he was in Julia's first grade class and had a crush on her and she thought he was cute too), Andrew, Julia, and then Ansley (lives across the street).

Another quick photo walking from the movie on the way to Mellow Mushroom for dinner.  I think all the kids loved walking around The Collection with friends.  Such a big kid thing to do!

We hung out at Barnes and Noble for a bit while waiting for our table.

Look at all those great smiles waiting for our table at Mellow Mushroom.  Such a great group of kids!

Definitely a bunch of silly kids!  

Hanging out and chatting while waiting for our pizza.

Yummy cookie cake to celebrate Julia!

All ready for us to sing Happy Birthday!

All smiles and thinking of a wish!  Andrew sure enjoyed having another boy around.

Making a wish on her 8th birthday!

Hanging out and waiting for Calder's parents to pick him up.  Calder, Julia, Landry Rose, and Ansley.

Walking back to the car and stopping for one last photo opportunity.  We drove Landry Rose and Ansley home and Julia loved spending that extra time with two of her friends as they were singing and dancing on the car ride home.  We're so thankful for such a fun night with Julia and some of her friends.  Everyone was very sweet and well mannered, it was great!  Happy Birthday to our sweet girl, Julia!

Ear Piercing

Julia has been wanting her ears pierced for a while now so we told her she could get them done for her birthday.  She was so excited...a little nervous but very excited!  Picking out her first pair of earnings added to the fun.

Waiting while the lady was getting everything ready.

Ready or not here we go.

Before you knew it the first one was done.

Checking them out and looking quite happy with them.

Listening to some directions about taking care of them.

She chose the daisy flower with a little pink in the middle...so very cute.  Julia was very brave and didn't cry or even scream.  The only thing she did was squeeze my hand.  I can't believe it my little girl has her ears pierced and growing up right before my eyes.

Teddy Bear Parade for Andrew

 Andrew's preschool always has a Teddy Bear Parade for the 4K and 5K kids which is always fun!  This year Andrew is all decked out in Star Wars gear from his pajamas to his float.

 Daddy and Andrew worked hard making their float and of course it's the X-Wing fighter from Star Wars.  I must say it came out awesome and Thomas is much more creative than me at making these floats.  The boys had fun doing this project together!

 Andrew and his good friend Chase.

 Andrew was quite excited about bringing his X-Wing fighter to school!

My only contribution to this project were the stickers that say Star Wars.  Definitely a fun event for the kids and our last Teddy Bear Parade since Andrew will be in Kindergarten next year.