Madison's 6th birthday

Madison celebrated her 6th birthday on Saturday June 12th, 2010. She had some of her school friends, fellow girl scouts and friends from Hickory Moms there to help her celebrate.

The kids started off playing on the bounce houses which came from Space Walk of Hickory. I was very impressed with this company due to their wonderful customer service. The bounce house that I had reserved for the party got a hole in it the day before so the owner brought over a different girly house along with a second one, an obstacle course, free of charge to make up for the fact that we didn't get the one she wanted.











On top of having the bounce houses, we also had Becki "The Balloon Lady" and Carmen who did the face painting. I always love having them come to a party because they always do an amazing job and the kids just love them.



















Maddy's cake was a marbled vanilla/chocolate with a tye dyed icing. It was actually very cool looking and the best part was that Maddy got to decide how she wanted it to look with the roses and balloons.

Last day of school

The last day of school was Friday June 11th, 2010. Maddy had her Kindergarten ceremony and graduated to the 1st grade. Here is a picture of her with her teacher Mrs. Breazeale and her Kindergarten certificate.

Awards Day at School

Ally had her awards day on Thursday June 10th, 2010 at 9:30am. I have never been prouder of her than I was on that day. On this day, Ally received quite a few awards. She was awarded with...
1)Perfect attendance
2)All "A" honor roll
3)Outstanding achievement for scoring a 4 in reading on her end of grade test
4)Outstanding achievement for scoring a 4 in math on her end of grade test
5)Fitness award winner
6)President's Education Award

This award is very special because out of the 4 classes of 4th graders, only 2 children were chosen to receive this award with Ally being one of them. Her teacher wrote her a letter to go along with the award and pin that she received.

Ally and her 4th grade teacher Mrs. Long

Blackburn Blast...

The girls had a great time at their school's "Blackburn Blast" that was held April 24th. During the blast, there were games to play, bounce houses to jump in, auctions to bid on, raffles to participate in and the principal to try and dunk. :)

Ally and Maddy both enjoyed getting their hair sprayed with glitter/colored spray. Luckily Katie was NOT interested in doing that or I would have had a time trying to get it washed out. Maddy went with pink (of course :) ) and Ally went with gold that gave her blonde hair a nice shimmer.

Madison and Katie enjoyed jumping in the bounce houses. Here they are playing basketball in the house. Katie really enjoys bounce houses because everytime she moves, she bounces like she is on a trampoline.

The kids were allowed to draw pictures and color on the back basketball court and there were quite a few that took the opportunity to do so.

Here we have Ally and our neighbor Hannah playing basketball.

Katie enjoyed the tumble area because she would keep getting in line to go again.

All of the girls got their nails painted. Katie was cute because she walked up to the table and slapped her hand down and said "I want pink". It was funny to watch her. When her nails were done, she looked at them and said that they were "pretty".

Look at Katie enjoying her first snowcone.

DUNK THE PRINCIPAL!!!! By the time his shift in the tank was up, he was SOAKED from head to toe...lol!! He was a great sport by doing this.

There was even a hay ride for the kids to enjoy.

Each of the classes decorated a dinner plate with the fingerprints of that class and then had a silent auction with the plates. I was hoping to get at least one of the plates, but it just wasn't in the cards for me. On another note, I did pick up a coupon and business card for the company where these plates were made so that I can take the kids and we can make one for ourselves.

Katie and Hannah trotted around the cake walk circle at the end of the blast.