Two birthday girls!!

We had a really fun few days for Kimee and Audrey's birthday. Each girl had three days in a row of festivities. It started Wednesday with Audrey's school friends party.
Beaux, Aspen, Kyser, Nan, and Jensyn were able to come. We drove around doing Random Acts of Kindness for strangers. Their favorite one was the Ding Dong doorbell ditching.

Then Thursday, the 21st, Dad took the day off work so that he could spend the day with the girls on their birthday. We started the day off early making breakfast bake and singing Happy Birthday to Kimee at 6:41am. Dave took Audrey and Maddi to their last day of volleyball camp. Then we all went to Kimee's (and Stephanie's) summer orchestra concert at PGJH. The Henrie's came too.
After the concert, we all went out to lunch at Costa Vida. It was a blast. Then we came home for a little rest.

Thursday night, we went to Pizza Pie cafe for dinner and then came back in time to get ready for the party.

Thursday night we hosted a really fun combined neighborhood friend backyard party. We did smore's, watched a movie in the backyard,  and swam in the swim spa. There was: Sean, David (and Sarah for a little while), Isaac and Eliza, Isabelle and Landon came to hang out with Maddi, Michael, Axel, Stephanie, Caroline (Anna was sick and couldn't come). We had sodas and I made popcorn outside. At the end, we sang Happy Birthday and had a big Costco chocolate cake.

Everyone asks me if I am OK with having a teenager. But the fact is, Kimee has acted like a teenager for a few years, so it just seems like I have been waiting for the formality of her actually turning 13.

We discovered that Kimee and Audrey are the SAME HEIGHT!! No more "big" sister for Audrey.

On Friday morning, Hadley and Emma came and picked up Kimee and Audrey for their annual birthday shopping spree. They were SOOO excited for this adventure with their cousins. They shopped at the mall and went to lunch at Applebee's.

Friday afternoon, we went to the Manila pond with the Henrie's. It was lots of fun. We got out the new inner tubes we got at Costco. Friday night we took a break and ate leftovers and watched a movie while mom and dad read their books:)

Saturday was Kimee's final celebration with her school friend's party. We did the Random Act's theme and it was lots of fun! For Kimee's dinner choice, she wanted Big Island Sam's for her birthday. So we went there after her party. YUM!!

Next year we will be taking the year off of birthday parties (hooray) except for Dad's big decade celebration.