Birthday Season

Another birthday season has come and gone in the Brewer house. With 3 birthdays in about a months time, it can be pretty busy. Especially since years ago I said, "It's your birthday, choose the menu." This was in a former life that contained fast food, donut shops and pre-packaged food from a number of different grocery stores. For the last 3 years, I've questioned that statement. But it's their day and I'm happy to oblige. Even if it means making meatloaf for Jason, a true sacrifice for me. This is what love is.

Jason kicks us off the celebrations in early September. One of our close friends has a birthday two days before Jason so we celebrated together in the next town, Kainantu. She and I are under the same conclusion: if we didn't have to cook the meal, it's a good meal.

The struggle every year is making sure we celebrate dad fully before launching into Mo's party planning. And let me tell you, she has ideas.

This year we did a class party with the girls in her third grade class. Another classmate has the same birthday so it was ideal to combine the two and call it a day. The theme was "wacky dress". All the girls showed up in their craziest outfits, decorated cupcakes and decorated paper bags for a puppet show.

I took this one in black and white. The amount of color and craziness would just be too much for your screen.

The trio on Mo's birthday

Birthday plate complete with birthday cinnamon rolls

And last but not least, our dear eldest celebration. Turning 12 automatically makes you indecisive. So we went back and forth and finally decided on a class party, with a fire, cookout and watching a movie outside. Seriously, we had the perfect night! The weather was clear, the kids were fun and we even saw a shooting star fly over.

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Photographic proof that my sweet baby boy is growing faster than I'd like!