Jasmine's BIrthday Party--food and gifts

Time for cake and ice cream and presents.

blowing out candles
Hailey and Sophia
Gabby and Jasmine
Ariana and Gabby
Caleb and Nathan
Tyler
Rick on ice cream duty
moms
Jasmine
From Caleb and Ariana
Tyler made balloon dogs and swords. I encouraged him to try this a couple of years ago and bought him a starter pack of balloons with instructions and he took right to it.

Ariana and Caleb gave Jasmine Disney Monopoly Junior and it has all her favorite characters from the Disney channel.
Sophia and Jasmine
Cinderella 3
Jasmine with Abby
Abby gave Jasmine a target gift card.
Jasmine and Hailey
Hailey gave Jasmine a light up Pet Shop set.
Friend hug
Jasmine and Gabby
Gabby gave Jasmine a High School musical make up set

Erin enjoying ice cream.
Jasmine and Nathan
Nathan and Erin gave Jasmine a Color Explosion set.

Jessica capturing everything on video

Half-Birthday

Jessica's half birthday is Valentine's Day. When they were little, they got a half cake. Now they get whatever is on Wal-Mart's bakery reduced rack.

She is dependable, sweet with a touch a teen "attitude,"
responsible and she loves the Lord.

Just Hanging Out

Jasmine
Jasmine when we had a bit of cold weather a few weeks ago
Tyler and Scrappy see things eye to eye, or is it "nose to nose"?
Jasmine loves music.
Max (yellow) and Shy (gray)Shy was born on 9/11 around the time the towers were falling.
Adam
Tyler
Jessica

Valentine's Dance

Tyler waiting for his date.

Poor Jessica--no date
Messing around waiting for Kathryn to arrive

Yay, she's here!

Just the girls.


Tyler and Kathryn

Tyler's Half Birthday

My previously downloaded pictures have not been recovered yet from the dead computer but I can download new ones to my laptop.

We celebrate half birthdays at our house. We started this way back--about 17 years ago. It seems like kids always say they are almost 5,6,7, whatever the next age is from the moment they have their previous birthday. So we started half birthdays so that they'd know when they were half way to the next number. And we still continue it.

We used to always have half a cake but now we sometimes have cupcakes. Especially since my oven is still broken. So yesterday I headed for Walmart's reduced bakery items first. I couldn't resist this cow. I haven't seen them have anything like it before. This was Ty's special cake. The rest of us had football cupcakes.






Happy 17 1/2 Ty!