Holly's 12th birthday!

On October 18th,
we celebrated Holly's 12th birthday! Her theme this year was BUTTERFLIES

Happy birthday Holly! Grandpop and Grandmom Worrell from NJ were here for the week to join in on all the birthday festivities!

Emily bought Holly a bird for her birthday. Holly's bird is the blue and white one, whose name is Sunshine. Now Emily's bird, Rio (that Holly bought for Emily's 9th birthday) has a friend!

Holly had a treasure hunt this year. I had the other children color butterflies which I used the back of to put each task on. For each of the 12 tasks she had to find 12 of something, like 12 butterfly stickers, 12 pictures of cowboy hats, 12 sticker crosses and so on. After finding the hidden 12 items around the house, she was given a one word clue that in the end she unscrambled 12 words into a sentence to find her final and BIG gift.

In years past, we painted rocks and spelled the children's names. This year we painted small wood pieces, and Holly had to find the painted "H's" in places around the house that Holly spends the most time. This was her final task.

Holly's BIG gift this year.... she was given the keys to our golf cart which has been out of commission for the past several years. Jason got it running and now they are in the midst of painting it.

This years birthday cake was a huge butterfly cake. Rainbow vanilla cake with vanilla and choc icing. We actually baked TWO 8x12 cakes and cupcakes.

The day was complete with our friends the Jennings and Holly's school teacher, Miss Nancy and her husband coming over for cake and ice cream!