MADELINE TURNS 6

Our very first "friends" birthday party" Madeline had invited 4 friends form school and 3 from Girls scouts and of course little cousin Grace from Oregon. She had her party last Saturday afternoon. It was so much fun and all the kids had such a great time. She chose to have a my little pony party and so Dan and I worked at making it as creative as we could be. This is the first year in 4 that I didn't make her special cake. All my energies went into the pinata. I will have to get back on the cake next year.

Once again Dad did a really great job drawing. We had a great round of Pin the tail on the Pony. I love seeing all the kids play this game. They are so cute! My mom had made a huge tail that was full of different colors and sizes of curly ribbon. It was great. Much like all the great ribbon hanging from the pinata!

The Pinata! I refused to buy a cardboard pinata that the 5 and 6 year old girls wouldn't be able to crack. So I made our very first Williams Pinata. It took several days and some trials..oh, like spending two hours getting the entire first layer of paper mache on and then having the ballon pop making all of the wet paper mache collapse into a giant ball of goo! all so that I couldstart over at 2am! But it was so worth it. We had a ton of fun.

Madeline turned 6 January 26, 2005. It so hard to believe that she is 6 years old. These last 6 years have flown by. She is such a sweet sweet blessing from the Lord and we are so very proud of her! We had a tiny little celebration on her birthday with a few presents. Here are some of those pictures.

His big dimples make him so cuddly cute! He should be the face a cabbage patch boy doll!

Madeline's very first Cabbage Patch doll. This is Maggie Montana.