Happy Birthday Heidi and Morgan

My sister Gwen and I had a joint 8th birthday party for Heidi and Morgan on Saturday. Morgan was born 6 days (even though Heidi was due 3 weeks before Morgan...........Gwen is lucky that way. All of her babies were born 3 weeks early. In the case of Morgan, I was pretty jealous.) before Heidi. Throwing a party together cuts the work, stress, and cost in half. Love that!
I was in charge of the cake. Do any of you ever get frustrated because you put tuns of time and effort into decorating a cake.......and it doesn't look as good as you want it to. That's my story. I called my good friend Amy Burbidge who happens to be an amazing cake/cookie/cup cake decorator to help me with this one. So she came over and I watched her "help" me.....if you get my drift. This design is actually pretty special. During Sacrament Meeting at church my kids color. They always ask me to make them butterflies. This is one of my most common butterflies I color for them. After watching Amy "help" me decorate I learned a lot of tricks. I have to make another cake for this weekend.....If I can make the time I might go for it on my own. I'm definitely better off now, as far as knowing how to correct mistakes and tracing the pattern onto the cake before applying the decorations. We'll see........practice makes perfect........and hopefully not to many extra pounds.

My "little" big sister Gwen and me before the party got started.
The happiest couple EVER, my parents. Paul was out of town so they came over to Gwen's to see her new van and to take Jet and Cannon off of my hands for the afternoon.
Me and my beautiful daughter Heidi.

The boys got to go for a ride with the top down. The weather has been beautiful this week. Nedra stayed home with Jet while he napped. Dad took Cannon to the model airplane show in Madera. Paul usually takes him but couldn't this year....so my Dad thought he would go. Cannon told me they shared a hot dog there and had SO MUCH FUN!!!! He liked the military planes the best. After the airplane show Dad took Cannon to Costco and Home Depot. He bought a Venus Fly Trap plant for Cannon. SO COOL!!! Thanks Dad!!!! We are excited to catch some bugs and feed it!!! I'm going to bring it to Cannon's class tomorrow so he can show it to all his friends.
Grandpa Z's roller coaster. Such a BIG thrill!
Back to the Birthday girls and their party.
Heid with two school friends Natalya and Chizobam.
Crazy group shot right before we opened presents.
Marin and Bell
Nicole. She was one of Mo's friend but Hedi plays with her sometimes at Gwens house. I think she has such beautiful brown eyes! She definitely has a sweet heart.
We made Candy Leis' with the girls. Chris has always like making necklaces so he thought he's join in. J/K. Mo asked him yo help with hers. Looks like he helped Mo as much as Amy helped me. He's a great Dad! I really love him for that!


For some CRAZY WEIRD reason this picture is uploading side ways even though it's upright in my pictures files. I'm posting it anyway so make sure it become part of my journal. All in all the party was a total success and Heidi's friends made her feel very special. I love you Heidi!!! You are my sunshine!!!