Susanna's 5th Birthday

Susanna turned 5 yesterday.  I can't believe that my baby is 5!   On the other hand, it seems like forever ago that she was a toddler always walking around with an apple core hanging out of her mouth.  

She still eats apples all of the time, but she is reading and writing and doing chores; she is super independent and has been for a long time. 

My sister, Dandi, is super cool and always makes her kids awesome birthday cakes.  My kids saw her awesome Ninjago (Lego ninja) cake she made last week and asked why I never make them cool cakes.  I am more about taste.  I like to make something that tastes amazing and I don't really care about it being fancy.  So for Suzu, I decided to go for looks.  She loved it.  We spent the day yesterday picking out a picture of how she wanted it to look and what colors she wanted and then she sat by me while I made it.  It turned out really cute!  

Susanna wanted soup for her birthday dinner.  I let her tell me everything she wanted in it.  She helped put the chopped up veggies in the pot.  It became a beef stew.  She was so proud that she "made it out" (made up the recipe) all by herself with a little help from me.

Everyone was excited for present time!

She got everything she wanted, which at our house is unusual, but I got the Ariel doll really cheap after Christmas and the rest of her wish list was pretty inexpensive.

She LOVES "lips".  Chapstick, lipgloss, lipstick, you name it, she loves it!

She had been wanting a new coloring book that was just hers for a while.

She got up early this morning to get her room cleaned up and get ready for the day so she could watch her new Barbie movie as soon as the big kids left for school.  Boy was she motivated!

It was a great day together.  She was so happy.  At the close of the evening she snuggled her daddy and fell asleep in his arms.  It was as perfect of a birthday as it could be!

Prom

My darling friend Nelly, helped set up some of the prom decorations and asked if my girls and I would like to have a sneak peek at the church.  It was incredible!  The foyer was unrecognizable.  Sara and her bff had gotten all dressed up for their pretend prom and dressed Laney and Susanna up as their dates.  Susanna didn't appreciate the mustache and "boy" clothes, so she changed before we left for the church.  

The bathrooms were decorated as well. 

They had a room set up for the official prom photos to be taken.  They had fun props for the kids to use.

It really was beautiful and the girls had a wonderful time checking everything out (even the boys bathroom).

Sam and Josh both asked good friends to prom this year.  They were excited to just have fun.

Sam showing his excitement while picking up his date, lol.

Figuring out how to put on their flowers.  Hannah looked stunning.

Josh's date Sydney looked gorgeous too.

They had cut out and saved the artwork Josh had done to ask her and had it hanging up.  So sweet!

I drove the boys to pick up their dates, just so we could take pictures.  Then Sam drove the six of them around to dinner and prom in our party vehicle.  They had lights hanging up to add to the festivities.

They are a great bunch of kids and are a lot of fun to be with.  They are also extremely silly!

They crack me up!!!

Some of these are just screaming for good captions.

The patient beauties, waiting for the boys to finish with all their posing.

I love my boys!

And my "adopted" son too!

This is a shot that someone posted showing what it looked like when the teens were all there.  This was the party favor they gave out to everyone.  It was chocolates and a key chain to remember the night.

After prom they came back to our house and watched Skyfall. I think that the evening was a success!