Summer Shorts!

I made the girls' some shorts for summer by cutting off their jeans and pants and adding either fabric on the bottom or ribbons. On one pair of Abby's little shorts, I tried some embroidery (which I don't know how to do, but it was fun to try!). I even made the girls matching hair clips to go with their shorts that I put fabric on the bottoms of. The hairclips I made for Caitlin's two shorts got lost pretty quick, but Lizzie's is there in the picture with the pink shorts they match:

And here are their ribbon cutoffs...these were a fun and cheap project!

She had a Birthday Shout Hooray!

Summer birthday season is upon us, with Audrey's 7th kicking it off. Troy had to be at a conference in Spokane, so he wasn't able to be there, but he wanted to get her something special and Skype with her so he could watch her open it. In the morning he watched her open her Tangled tower. She was so happy. She has spent months thinking about it, trying to create make-shift towers out of paper, which she would spend hours on. So she was pretty happy with a real store-bought one :)

I was feeling a lot of pressure, because well, Audrey is hard to please sometimes, and she has been planning this party for a long time. I am learning that she does have a genuine knack for decorating and loves to be festive, so I pretty much let her take over, which she is good at. She decorated 3 days before the party, which was a bit stressful since it was hard to keep it looking as perfect as she wanted it with Alex around, but she did a very good job. We did a hula party, with hawaiian music, tiki torches, hula skirts, hawaiian haystacks, smoothies and a little hula dancing. It turned out pretty well, I didn't hear any complaints from her so I'm assuming in her mind it was successful. Sigh.