We’ve had a great couple of weeks and celebrated two birthdays recently!  Bailey was 12 on February 26 and Avery turned 6 (I can’t believe it!!) on March 3.  Both girls had awesome days and I owe thanks to many of you for their birthday wishes through Facebook, phone calls, cards, emails, etc.   Bailey’s birthday was on a Saturday and it so happened that she was participating in a 30 Hour Famine that weekend.  It is sponsored by World Vision and is designed to raise awareness for world hunger.  Fortunately, we broke the fast at 1 pm on her birthday, so she got to break the famine by sharing her birthday cake with all the students and leaders at the church!

This was a year for them to have parties (we only do friend parties every other year), so we decided on a theme that they could both use even though their parties would be at two different times.  We had a “Purple Party!”    Bailey has already had her’s.  We did a sleepover party and all the decorations were purple.  We wore purple, we ate purple foods, she got all purple gifts!  We played several games and did crafts with all purple stuff.  It was lots of fun!   Julia came downstairs Friday morning after I had stayed up really late on Thursday night getting it ready and said, “it looks like every decorating store in Goldsboro threw up purple in our house.”  Yep, that’s the idea!  We even decorated the front door and put purple Christmas lights in the bushes since they didn’t arrive until 7 pm when it was already dark.  I think I won “Mom of the Year” Awards from Bailey and Madi…she wants to have the same party for her birthday in August!   Avery will have a purple party too, but at the dance studio in a few weeks.  Saturdays were too busy at the dance studio for the owner to schedule a party and since she and all the friends she would be inviting are in school now, we couldn’t have it before lessons start on school days…so we have it scheduled for a teacher workday, when there is no school and before lessons start.  She will have had to wait 3 weeks after her birthday for her party, but she’s being a very good sport!

Here are a few photos from Bailey’s party and from their birthdays:

Bailey and Avery got a tumbling mat together to practice their tumbling on.

 

Bailey opening her gifts…she has a 30 Hour Famine tattoo on her face and hadn’t showered in 2 days!  Nice, huh?!

 

Avery got a Nintendo DS and a cute pink chair…Julia made her pink and purple heart shaped muffins that morning!

 

Avery opening her other gifts!

What a cutie!

 

The kitchen…we decorated the entire downstairs!

 

Julia and her friend, Jordan, helped them make purple duct-tape wallets.

Bailey and her 6 friends.

 

We made purple “mummy” girls.