Aile's 5th Birthday (yes, I know it is long past...)

Better late than never, eh?! :) With the school year starting (to be covered soon) and also Brenner potty training (also to be covered soon), keeping up with the blog has fallen to the wayside, to say the least! But I really want to have a record of our family happenings to look back on. So even if everyone else out there has long moved on, I am still going to post a few more outdated entries to catch myself up in the logbook. Hope you don't mind... :)

Since, oh, about February of this year, Aile has been asking (rather, already planning) to have a "pink poodle in Paris" birthday party. This idea came, of course, by way of an unsolicited party magazine that arrived in our mailbox. Aile LOVES to get mail (this is extreme understatement), so she gobbled it right up and found the 5th birthday party of her dreams... The rest is history:

This first picture is from Aile's Sabbath School class. They sang to her and prayed with her, and promoted her to the next class.



Oma apparently did not have the grandma magic touch at this moment! All three little grandbabies were howling! I think Claire started first, followed by Ashlyn, then Caelum. Too much sympathy here, or just didn't want to be left out? :)

Brenner's favorite part of the party: the noise makers! No break in character here...