Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The next decade....

I gave birth to a little girl in the fall of 1999. Fast forward to now. (Do you really think I could possibly try to cover the past 10 years here? TMI!!!!)

What do I have to look forward to in the next decade? Well, basically, I'll blink and my baby will be a sophomore in college! If she's like her mom, at that age, she will be just a few months away from meeting her future spouse. Oh my.....

We celebrated the momentous occasion of turning 10 with friends from church and school....

Wish I'd gotten a picture of everyone's--they all turned out so cute. All that time spent drilling holes was worth it.



Pass the Parcel



Balloon Stomp

We played a few other party games--one of them involved the girls taking a quiz about the birthday girl--just how well did they know her? (I should do one of those. Oh wait--that's what facebook is for).

Leaf print goodie bags.

She LOVES to read!

(The paper says: "Treats from some of _____'s favorite books")

Pumpkin tassies (Little Debbie pumpkin treats)---Harry Potter series

Knocker's listening stones (chocolate rocks)---The Ironwood Tree (Book 4 of Spiderwick Chronicles)

preserved crocodile tongues (Halloween gummy worms)---James and the Giant Peach

dragon's egg (giant jawbreaker)---Eragon

gold (chocolate coins)---Inkheart

Never bugs (Keebler graham bug bites)---Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg

dream trumpets (Oreo Stix)---The BFG

Well now...off to plan the next decade....

9 comments:

Jennifer said...

Waht cute ideas! I love the windchimes and goodie bags. You're so creative. :)

ldsjaneite said...

Your kids are so lucky to have such an awesome and creative mom. (Must get it from your own mother.) 'Course, I got her first as my sister. So that was pretty nice! :-) I love the goodie bags--and that they're treats from books.

Rochelle said...

Very cool windchimes...love that idea! Looks like a fun party!

Susan said...

What good party ideas. I'm very impressed.

Marie' said...

What a party! I hope your kids know how lucky they are.

Becca and fam said...

Love the fun birthday ideas. The wind chimes are darling, and the book goodie bags are so cute. Congratulations, and I can't wait to see what the next decade brings.

Alanna said...

Wow! You were busy planning that! What fun windchimes. I can't believe how well read she is...like her mom I guess, right?! That's awesome!

Shea said...

Mother of the year! It's hard to believe they are now 10.

Megan said...

Those goodie bags are impressive! It looks like a fun party; thanks for sharing the ideas!