Grace turns 9!

September 18th, 2010.....my second child turns 9! Wow, has it really been that long already?! I swear I'm not that old! Oh well....I guess we both are! That day was a beautiful day!! Much to my husbands dismay, I decided that we were going over to Jackson to go swimming and do the cake and ice cream thing. When we got over there though, there was a high school swim meet going on for another hour, so, we decided to go to Gary's job site and check out the house he's been working on for 10 months. It's huge! With amazing views! I put pics up a few posts ago if you want to check it out here. After that we headed down to one of the local parks.
Joe had fun trying to take Rascal, Geena's dog, for a walk.......but I'm pretty sure it was more of Rascal taking Joe for a walk!
Grandma J. putting the candles on the cakes.
Catching up with the fam.
Hanging out.......we had so much time to waste before we could head back over to the pool...and let's face it....that is what we all really wanted to do!
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear GRA-ACE, Happy Birthday to you!
The birthday buddies being sung to.
Noah loves ducks.....so naturally he got to eat the ducky cupcake.
The inside of Grace's cake. Not too bad for my first time using the checkerboard cake pan!
Grace sure enjoyed it! So did I.....I liked the vanilla and chocolate fudge cake together...with a little ice cream on top!
Getting ready to open presents....Yeah!
Grace's friend gave her a cute little purse, a necklace and some lip gloss.
Another Pet Shop....but this one she can color and decorate.
Hahahahaha.....I just love the look on her face for this one! It really says it all! Who really likes to get underwear for their birthday?! =)
Noah with the little Chuck the Tonka Truck toys that we gave him. They are so cute. We gave him the farm set and a semi with a 4-wheeler.
Grace and her new Sunday shoes. She wears them all the time.....mostly because she LOVES to dress up and will wear a dress to school most days.
A new Polly Pocket to play with.....our neighbor, shown kinda below in the pic with Grace, is ALWAYS bringing over her Pollys to play with....so now Grace has at least one of her own to join in the mix.
I love this pic of the 3 girls really checking out what all came with that Polly. I think they are excited to get to play with it.....what do you think?
After the park, we went back over to the pool and ended up having to wait another hour while they cleaned things up after the swim meet. They told us to come back at 4, but it was 5 before they actually let us in......I wish they could have told us that.....we could have stayed at the park and let the kids play longer. Oh well, it was still fun.....I love coming over here to swim. It's such a family friendly place and it's so clean and just nice to go to. I really wish we had a place closer to us to go to that was more like this. You can see a panoramic tour of it here. We ended up running into a family from our ward, our friends the Jensen's who had also come over with their family to go swimming. So we had plenty of people to talk to. We were all excited to finally get into the pool. Sierra had fun with Noah.....if you remember reading my post about Rigby Lake, you'll remember that Noah absolutely LOVES the water!
Emma loves the water too.....but under her terms! If she's in control of herself in the water, for instance she can touch the bottom and "swim" on her own, she loves it. If you try to take her to deep water, or have her go down the kid slide and don't quite catch her before she goes under(hhm, hhm...her dad!)then she doesn't like it so much.
Grace inbetween her girlfriends waiting to go down the big slide.
Sierra taking Noah down the little slide....the little slide was pretty fun too.....you could go pretty quickly on it.
Hahaha.....me shooting out of the big slide! It just never gets old!
Grace hanging out under the waterfall with her friends.
The fam hanging out in the shallows. Right there every once in awhile it will bubble up from the bottom of the pool.....it's fun to sit in the bubbles!
We had a great time, but it was a long day! We didn't get home till about 9:30 that night...but it was all worth it. Everyone had a smile on their face....what could be better?!