Abigail's Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Abigail's Birthday with a trip to Uncle Ron and Aunt Kari's on Saturday. The day dawned chilly and cloudy. We packed up the van and headed out around 9:30, arriving around 10:45. When we pulled in the driveway and Abigail saw her cousin Anna she let out an ear piercing SQUEAL! She has been counting down the days to her birthday (which is actually tomorrow) since July. Drew dropped Abram, the girls and I off, picked up Grant and headed to his Dad's for a day of boating. Some friends we met a few years ago at Anna's "Little House on the Prairie" party came around 11:00 as well as Drew's Mom. The little girls all dressed in their "Little House on the Prairie" dresses, bonnets and shawls didn't let the clouds slow them down. They climbed in the wagon in the yard and figured out who would play each character for the day. Kaylin playing as Ma, Mary as Mary, Anna as Laura, Abigail as Carrie, and Kariann as Grace. Pa must have been clearing some land because there were no boys at this point. After the girls played a bit they came in and we played pin the antenna on the butterfly. Mary Elisabeth went first and stuck her antenna right on the spot. Each girl followed suit. The finished butterfly had a huge mass of pipe cleaner antennas! Then each girl came to the porch window for a sack lunch which they took outside. After that we broke open the butterfly pinata we have been working on for the last couple weeks. All that work gone in a FLASH. It really made Grandma Mary laugh to see the butterfly once the clasp was broken and the poor thing was dangling there all beat up. It truly was a funny sight. Next the girls searched for beads just like the part in the book when Pa took the girls to the Indian camp. All the girls loved the beautiful beads Aunt Kari had selected. Then Abigail passed out gift bags to each of the girls and they gave her their gifts. Then as the girls played "Little House on the Prairie" they could come to Aunt Kari's porch window to buy cupcakes or ice cream cones or slates and chalk. There was a whole lot more to the day of course. The girls giggled and enjoyed themselves immensely. Around 5 the guys returned (Lynn, Kaylin and Kariann had departed) and we had a wonderful meal of chili, hotdogs and cornbread followed by singing, cake and MORE ice cream. I think Abigail enjoyed her big day! For more birthday pictures click on the flicker badge on the side bar:-).