Catch Up

What a busy last couple of weeks it has been. I haven't had a minute to get caught up on things.

Here is a condensed look at Hayden's 10th birthday.

Hayden is such an animal person, me, not at all. We tried a dog and a gerbil in the last 2 years and they were both insane and we weren't home enough to give them the attention they needed.

Hayden made a list of what she wanted for her birthday and it was "a dog or a kitten or some sort of animal, but preferably a puppy." I told her there was no way we were getting another dog.

So finally I agreed that we could get a cat from the Humane Society. I figured a cat can at least stay home a day and a night by itself and survive and it wouldn't be chewing and hyper and peeing everywhere like the maniac dog we had for 6 months.

The day of her birthday we went to the Humane Society and she picked out an 8 week old gray kitten. After polling half of Utah on what to name her, she decided on Tara Tacie.

So Far the cat has been the best pet. She already knew how to use a litter box, she is calm, and loving. I hope we can be pet people now :-)
Friday night Hayden had a late night friends party. It was a Polka Dot party. She had 8 girls over and 4 stayed the night. The girls were all well behaved, they had a fun time.

Sunday was the family party. We were happy some of Jeremy's family made the drive up.

We ate dinner and the kids did a pinata in the garage.

Harmony made this cute cake. I was not born with the cake decorating ability and so I have to hire out the cake decorating each year.

It was a fun week of celebrating. Now we are excited to go down to Jeremy's parents for Thanksgiving.