birthday girl

I have A LOT of catching up to do on the blog...haven't had a lot of free time lately...but will do my best.

However, this post is for the birthday girl at our house...who had her 4th birthday party yesterday.

G & G Petersen and Grandma Barber came into town for the big event...and since the party wasn't until 3:30, "the girls" (as Keatin would say) decided to go get pedicures while Will was napping. SO fun...and we all left with some pretty nails.

And then...it was party time. :) We had Keatin's party at the Cardinal Gymnastics Academy at ISU. What the "party" entailed was basically letting the kids (both young and young at heart kids) play, play, play in the ISU gymastics training facility. I had so much fun just watching them all play! When it was time to do cake/presents, the kids (we had about 10 other friends there) were SO sweaty and red in the face...I decided that meant it was a success. :) I was mom-of-the-year and took one picture the entire party...so these are all the pictures my mom and dad took.

After we were done playing, the ISU gymnastics girls served the kids cake and Keatin was able to open presents. I am not a creative party planner, so this was certainly the way to go (for me) when it comes to a birthday party! And the joy on Keatin's face...it was so worth it. :)

After the party was over, we headed back home to eat supper and open a few more presents...one of which was the t-ball tee pictured below...which Keatin tested out this morning in her pajamas. :)

Awesome day...awesome family...awesome friends...awesome daughter. :)