Tie-Dye PARTY and Ear Piercing!

Kaeli had a birthday party with friends on Saturday to tie-DYE for! Call me CRAZY to tie-dye with a bunch of 8-year olds! But believe or not we had ZERO fabric-dye fatalities. The guests each brought a white t-shirt to dye. After I showed them how to "tie" the fabric they choose their own colors and went dye-happy. After that Aaron took the rowdy bunch downstairs for a few games all of which included balloons; carrying, popping, bouncing...you name it they played it! Then they feasted on pizza and soda pop, cupcakes and cherry ice cream, and topped off the party with opening presents and chasing Aaron :-)

Oooooh! Tie-dye cupcakes! Or at least that's what I hoped they looked like!

Tie-dye MANIA!

Yeah...PRESENTS!

After the party, Kaeli and I went on THE date of all dates...

a mother/daughter date...

a date of high anticipation...

a date of becoming the the rightful age of 8...

a date of getting EARS PIERCED!!!

... followed by a trip to the Marble Slab Creamery :-) Here is Kaeli immediately after getting her ears pierced. You can see the pain is already forgotten and the "don't I look CUTE!" has set in!

Congratulations Kaeli! You sure ARE cute!