Abigail's Birthday Party

Last weekend we had a fun birthday party for Abigail. It was nice to work with Abby and plan the party together and I think it was a pretty successful day. We had a county fair theme so there was lots of candy, balloon animals, face painting, and cake. Instead of writing all about it here, I figured it would be easier to just share the pictures because they're worth a thousand words each!
Since were were trying to keep with the county fair theme there were lot of bandanas, jars of candy that the kids filled their treat bags from, and three cakes. As usual, the doughnut cake was a hit with everyone (including me - hooray for not having to bake!)
In the morning as we were setting up for the party Emily had the great idea to add face painting to the line up of activities. She practices a few designs on Samantha and set up a table with brushes and paints. She did a really good job and I loved that she wanted to contribute something to her sister's party.
Our friend from church paid her way through college by making balloon animals and she was nice enough to come over and make animals for everyone during the party. She was able to make anything the kids asked for including butterflies, flowers, rainbows, the little mermaid, spiderman, and for our monkey Abigail - a monkey in a tree.
Abigail wearing the awesome birthday hat while opening presents

So here's our awesome, sweet, smart, monkey of a nine-year-old Abigail!

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