Kate turns 9!!

On January 11th, our sweet Kate turned 9 years old!  She is the best kid and we just love her to pieces!

 

The big surprise for Kate was getting her ears pierced!  Since her birthday was on a Sunday this year, I told her on Saturday morning that we were going to the mall to get her ears pierced.  She was so excited!   We had a great time!  There was only one worker at Claire's so she had to get them pierced one at a time, but she was really brave and picked out some cute earrings.  We then went and got her a new outfit!

 

She was excited to also get a couple of new Legos Friends sets, a new Kindle case and book light from us.

On her birthday, we had a birthday dinner.  She chose steak & mashed potatoes.  Delicious!  I think every bite was gobbled up!  Lindsey made her this really pretty cake!

My mom made her a beautiful quilt from a line of fabric called "Miss Kate."   She snuggles under it every night and I have to wake her up nearly every morning.  She's always just nestled under that cute blanket sleeping away!

Since she was turning an odd number, Kate got to have a friend birthday party too!  She chose to go to Airborne Trampoline Arena.   She invited several of her friends and they happily jumped and jumped for a couple of hours.   Easy!!!

 Kage, Kate, Josie & Camri

 

 Jack was happy to work on his flips

 

 Rare evidence that I was actually at the event :)  Hailey refused to smile at Jon who was taking the picture, so I had to tickle her leg.

 

 Alyssa & Hannah

 

 Hailey

 

 Megan

 

 Kate

 

 Hannah!

 

 Ava

 

 Kage

 

 Emily & Zoey

 

After they jumped for an hour and a half, we went into a party room for pizza, cake & icecream & opening gifts!

 Kate's cute group - Kage & Carson (the two boys she invited) had already left for a basketball game

R1: Hannah, Alyssa, Hailey, Kate, Ava, Camri & Sophie

R2: Zoey, Megan & Josie

 

Kate was really wonderful, sweet friends!   Happy Birthday to you Sweet Kate!