Happy Birthday ...

To Everyone who had a Summer birthday!

Celebrating Veronica's May birthday ...

with a new purse, oatmeal cake, and Bluebell ice cream!

Celebrating Breck's June birthday early with a chili dog from Sonic,

fresh strawberry cake with homemade cream-cheese frosting,

 

summer piano lessons,

and dinner at Culvers on his actual birthday, compliments of his BFF Veronica.

Celebrating Brittney's July birthday while in Utah, with a day of shopping and dinner at Corel Life cafe with me,

a lovely dinner at Grandma Heelis',

clothes, purse, and sandals from Grandma and I,

a Fit-bit from Sean,

protein cookie & almond-milk ice cream,

(the rest of us had Cindy's leftover red-velvet cake...sooo good!)

and a cake made of fruit from her co-workers at Boart Longyear.

Celebrating Archibald's August "super hero" birthday with his parent's (and good friends of ours) John & Christen,

and special appearance from Spider Man (with Christen, her brother, and her father)!

(Archibald as Black Panther with Spider Man)

Archibald (with Spider Man & Cal Watson) turned six-years-old 

Spider Man helped with the super hero games,

and presented super hero medals & certificates to all the kids.

(Good friend's Maryann & Bryan's kids Tate & Daily).

Spider Man even sneaked into Aubrey's room one night ...

and about gave her a heart attack!

She then convinced him to take off his mask ...

 Who knew that Spider Man was our very own Breck Manwaring!!! 

Brittney celebrated her cousin Alyssa's September birthday with her Aunt Kim, and other cousin Eva.

Merinda celebrated her September birthday (she turned 17) with ...

strawberry jelly-filled cake and homemade coconut-cream frosting,

dinner at Chik-fil-a from Aubrey, gifts and card from Breck,

and blue-tooth ear buds from Brad and I. 

(who knew that thinking of a wish was so stressful ...)

Merinda also celebrated her birthday with a scavenger-hunt that included friends from church (Lauren, Nikara, and exchange student Hyo from Korea),

friends from school (Heather & Luke),

and friends from Chik-fil-a (James, Seth, and Laura),

and of course pizza, Doritos, and root bear floats!

(Hyo trying her first root-bear float ever!)

(Korean gifts from Hyo)

(and thoughtful gifts from everyone else!)

We celebrated Aubrey's September birthday early knowing that she would be away at college on her actual birthday.

 

We celebrated with pistachio pudding dessert,

 

her favorite snack foods,

 

college must-haves,

 

her BFF's McKenzie, Paul (McKenzie's husband), and Riley (McKenzie's little brother),

  

 

(Breck doing yoga poses, and randomly looking out the window...we don't know why)

 

and her other BFF's (us)! 

Once she got to college her roommates Anna & Jen threw her a party with more of her favorite things ... 

 

 

Breck (he, he),

 

pizza,

 

cupcakes,

  

and a new softy blanket they made! Aubrey's cousins also brought her pens and a pumpkin dessert! That's the great thing about being an adult, you can celebrate your birthday as many times as you want!