Beth's Birthday Party

Although Beth's birthday is January 8th, we had her party on Monday night so Molly could attend. I asked her what she wanted for dinner and she requested pancakes and bacon. Molly came over that afternoon to spend some time with the kids and go birthday cake shopping with us.

We came home and I cooked the bacon and a bazillion pancakes, then we ran into a problem. We discovered that we somehow ran out of maple syrup! Such a catastrophe!!! We used caramel and butterscotch ice cream toppings in lieu of syrup and topped them off with whipped cream. Beth really wanted syrup, so she used agave nectar. I used strawberry jam. They turned out pretty good :)

After dinner, we opened presents. Rob and I got Beth a leapfrog thing that helps her with her writing ~


Molly and Brian got her a Dora book with drawing pad ~


Nona and Papa got her a Dora coloring book with paints ~


Beth picked a cake just like the one she picked last year ~




The kids talked me into getting party horns. I had forgotten how loud those can get!


We also got balloons, which apparently were the worse tasting balloons ever!


After cake and ice cream, Beth painted in her coloring book with Nona ~


And Papa started a balloon fight in the playroom with Megan, Kylie and Jack ~