Happy 6th Birthday, Skylar!

It’s been another busy week and one filled with celebrations. Skylar turned six on Thursday, and the family gathered for dinner and cake at Matt and Betsy’s.

I love this photo of Skylar and Ella right before  Skylar blew out the cakes on her cake. The theme for Thursday’s celebration was Emoji’s.

There was no school in our district either Thursday or Friday because of the Jewish holiday. I picked Skylar up around 10:00 on Friday morning; we made cookies and opened up one of Skylar’s gifts from Sarah and her family–a science lab kit. We did one of the experiments which demonstrated that acids (lemon juice) will make a “dirty” penny shiny again, but water has no effect.

After lunch at Moe’s Southwest Grill, we returned to make Skylar’s favorite berry smoothie from a cookbook we gave her at Christmas. She took cookies and some smoothie home to share. Later that afternoon, we met up with everyone again at the Jump Club for her friend’s party. A good time was had by all!

The birthday girl is in the blue dress, and Ella is in the pink one. They were both wearing dress featuring Trolls, the theme of this party. There were organized games and contests as well as time to play on the equipment.

When Skylar opened her card on Thursday night, she commented that I always give her a special shaker card, which seems to be the case!

The September Simon Says Card Kit was just perfect for creating a card for a six year old. Everything except the dies and the twine came from the kit which featured patterned paper and 3-D stickers from Doodlebug as well as special shaker tags from Jillibean Soup.

Saturday night we hosted a party for Tracy’s 50th Reunion Committee. The reunion was a year ago, and it was fun to get the group together again. Tracy finished the new patio area on the lower level for the fire pit that afternoon. This was an area totally overrun with weeds and junk, so it’s exciting to have it looking so nice. The red Adirondack chairs were purchased after we encountered pairs of them scattered among the Canadian National Parks when we visited a couple of years ago. The Buddha was a birthday request of Tracy’s several years ago, and finally has a respectable home. 

There were too many folks at the party to sit around the fire pit, and frankly, it was too hot! We did sit on the patio, however. This has been one of the hottest stretches of the summer. We broke 90° today—the hottest day of 2017 so far. They’re predicting two more days of the heat wave before we return to more typical fall weather patterns.