Bailey is 9!

We celebrated Bailey's 9th birthday with a small party after school on Friday with her best friend. Then we had the family over for swimming and cake on Saturday! She's also asked to go to Universal Studios to get a Harry Potter wand, so we'll plan to do that in the next few weeks.

I can't believe she's 9--it went REALLY fast!

Here's Bailey and Lydia...

And the whole gang of kids!

She asked for a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting. I took the liberty of making the frosting purple, which she absolutely LOVED. It was a fun cake to make!

This one is from the party on Saturday. Ice cream cake this time around. I didn't make that one!

Color Run!

Emily and her best friend Isabella decided to participate in the Winter Springs Color Run this year. It definitely wasn't the best organized race we've done, I'll say that much. But the girls had a lot of fun. It was a small crowd and the kids got to run the course as many times as they wanted to. The girls did it twice because they hardly got any color after the first round.

 Before...

After a second lap around the course (and after they found some color and threw it at each other, LOL).

It was certainly an experience. If Emily wants to do it again, I think I'll look into the ACTUAL color run. Maybe I'll do it, too.

THIS IS NOT HOW BAILEY DIES!!!!

Bailey and Liam have been playing Minecraft this morning. Do your kids love that game as much as mine do??

Anyway, they were playing really well together for a while but then I guess Liam started doing something Bailey didn't like, which apparently ended up killing off her character. So all of a sudden I hear her yell: "THIS IS NOT HOW BAILEY DIES!!!"

Oh, boy, did I get a good laugh out of that one!