This might have been one of my favorite parties ever!! I think our whole family has declared it to be the best weekend of the semester!
Nastya turned 12 on October 10th. Camille and I had this great idea to let Nastya and Galina (her best friend from Ukraine) have a joint birthday party. Then we realized several of Camille's other children were having birthdays in October and November so the party soon became one to celebrate FIVE birthdays. Seems efficient, right?!?
Happy Birthday Nastya, Galina, Clay, Aubrey, and Troupe!!!
And can you get a better setting than this?!? I just love old barns and my parents really did this one up right for parties.
Beautiful girls!
Hay bales never fail to provide great entertainment...
Cutie!
Sadly, two of the birthday kiddos came down with an illness just before the party.
So we ended up celebrating for Nastya, Galina, and Troupe!
The kids enjoying cake in this beautiful old barn...
Love this sweet boy! Happy Birthday Troupe!
We had the party out at our family farm in Seguin and there was so much to do with hay bales to jump, old barns to explore, pecans to pick up, yummy food, and good music (right Christy?!? :))
Best of all were the great friends and family that we had to celebrate with. What a blessing that we LOVE the families of our kids' friends and that they are also some of our favorite people!
Sure works out good that way!
Ethan and Ben loving the glow in the dark sticks! These were a hit!
Love these sweet ladies!
I think this was my favorite part. After it got dark, we tacked up a sheet on the old barn and our youth pastor brought the projector. The kids grabbed some blankets, found a hay bale to lean on and settled in for movie. They watched Spirit - a great movies about horses (of course :))! When there was a huge starry sky on the screen, the kids looked up into the real sky to see tons of stars!! This will be an activity that we will definitely repeat!
Nastya and Galina opening a few birthday presents!
We (plus a few extra kids!) ended up staying all weekend - some even camped out in tents (brrrr....). It was just too much fun to leave... :)
2 comments:
it was quite a party! loads of kids running all over the farm! i loved it. God blessed us with such a beautiful place and it made me so happy to see so many enjoying it. you did a great job with all the activities. and what a great place for nastya to celebrate her birthday. seems like the farm fits her perfectly. mom
What great music!!!!
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