Allison Renee turns 9!!!

Holy moly! I cannot believe that our first-born has turned 9! WOW! Where does the time go???? We celebrated Allison's birthday on Saturday with a very full day. We started the day with her favorite breakfast of blueberry pancakes and bacon. She opened up her presents from us, which of course included some new High School Muscial boots, a "rock star" sweatshirt, a Hannah Montana watch, new perfume and a new computer game. Then after cleaning up from that, we hosted a "horse-themed" party for her and 9 of her friends from school during the afternoon. That was alot of fun and very busy to say the least! : ) She decided on a horse theme this year. She loves reading horse books and just decided that might be fun. So, she and I worked together on it. I ended up painting a large horse on a sign that they used to play a game at the party. And we had the girls decorate horses for a craft. They loved that. She had a horse cake and Mommy had fun and made chocolates in the shape of horses for each girl at the party. We even found horse keychains and horse stickers for the goodie bags! I think I might have enjoyed this theme more than the birthday girl! After the party, we had our families over for a birthday dinner of pizza before all heading out together for some bowling, requested by Allie! What a packed weekend and so much fun. We are so proud of our Allison and how she is growing up into such a wonderful young lady! Jason and I both commented on our drive home that night from bowling of how much fun we are having with her as she gets older and how blessed we are to have her in our family! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEET ALLIE, WE LOVE YA!!!!