Addyson turns 7!!

My sweetest baby girl is SEVEN!!  Seriously, I know I say this every.single.year. but its true, WHERE DID THE TIME GO???  I have a first grader!  She is seven!!  I am OLD!!  :)

Ever since Addyson was born I have wanted to do a Halloween party for her since her birthday is so close to Halloween.  So this year we decided to pull it off!  We had the party a few weeks before her actual birthday which meant that we celebrated her birthday no less than 5 different times!  Oh well- it was a fun month!!

For the party I decided I was not going to stress and do everything perfect and over the top.  I made a few snacks of chocolate covered bones (pretzel sticks with marshmallows on the end and then dipped in white chocolate- these were a HUGE hit! Every last bone was gone!), scarecrow mix, gummy worms and cookie cake.  We also did a green sherbert "monster" punch and of course candy!! 

Addyson and her friend Clarissa (our next door neighbor)

Lots of Balloons!

Addyson, Avery, Clarissa

We did a pot of "witch brew" AKA dry ice and it was a big hit as well!

Ellie and Rabiah

Kate, Addyson, Sarah, Ben, Rabiah, and Ellie

Clarissa, Addyson and Janelle

Getting snacks!!

checking out their goodies!

We did bobbing for apples!  I thought this was going to be great fun but it was actually really hard to do!!  I am not sure any of them really got one without some major help!  They all had fun doing it though!

Kate and Addyson

Another Kate and Addyson (There were 3 Kate's at the party and 3 Addyson's!!)

Addyson and Janelle

Ben and our sweet neighbor Mia.  They are buds!

Pinata time!! 

Cake time!!

Presents!!!!!  

The party was great and I was worn out afterwards!  Seventeen  6 and 7 year olds running around will take it out of you!! 

We celebrated with each of our moms who came up to visit as well (at different times a few weeks apart)- this was fun for Addy!! 

We celebrated Nana's birthday as well as her and Addy's b-days are a day apart!  

And then of course on her actual birthday we celebrated as well.  Whew!  No wonder I was worn out after all of this!  It's exhausting writing about it weeks later! 

Addyson REALLY wanted to help make her cake.  So after school we made a tye dye cake!  It was fun to make! 

Our of order, but my pretty little seven year old!  So big!

Making the cake...you make the batter and then put it into 7 different bowls and make different colors.  Pretty easy and it all comes in a box, so you don't have to do anything extra! 

We made a bundt cake and you just pour each color right on top of the other.  No mixing it!

The un-iced finished product.  This is so typical of me!  Betty Crocker here!!  For whatever reason, when I turned it over it fell apart.  But you get the idea!  It still tasted good!! 

Getting birthday kisses from brother! 

On the birthday list this year:  Magic 8 ball, Rainbow Loom bracelet maker, lots of books, pink sparkly boots, Barbie stuff, arts and crafts, purses, Crayola Marker Maker set (this was a good toy!), clothes, etc.  She had a great month celebrating!  I hope seven is a great year for her!