Brooke's Birthday Celebrations

This year Brooke had a couple celebrations for her birthday.  We started out the official day with pancakes, a special tray, a lit candle, and some birthday song singing.  Later that day, we headed to Wal-mart, so she could spend some of her birthday money she had gotten from her Granddaddy and Great Grandmama (burning a hole in her pocket); she selected a Barbie and a Barbie horse.  After her careful selections had been made, we went to the park for a picnic and playtime; once it was dark, and we were the only crazy people still left at the park, we headed home.  Once home, Brooke opened a couple presents, and we ate chocolate ice cream sandwiches. 

Brooke's second celebration took place this past Saturday at my mama's house.  In attendance were Mama, Grandmama, Otis, Elizabeth, Braden, Brooke, Emma, Colton, Rich, and I.  We ate pizza, cake, and ice cream, opened presents, took tons of pictures, and watched the kids dance.  Brooke had combined the money she got from my mama and the gift card she got from Grandpa and Grandma Maseda and bought a CD boombox and a Michael Jackson CD (Thriller).  She was very proud of her purchase and wanted to show us some of her smooth dancing skills, and we happily obliged, and of course all of the other Maseda cuties had to get in on the act!  I do mean ALL of the cuties!  We discoverd that Colton is definitely going to be able to keep up with his siblings in the shake your booty category!

Here are the pictures from the festivities:

As an afterthought, I would like to say, that I am glad Brooke decided to go the family party route again this year; it makes it sooooooooo much easier!  She says she prefers it for two reasons:

1) She loves her family and
2) She gets to spend more time with her family. 

Sounds good to me!