Celebrating Lily's 7th Birthday

 Lily turned 7 this month! She is growing up a lot (first grade), but is still our sweet, silly Lily.

Jared took her out for a private photo shoot on the afternoon of her birthday.

She decided that she wanted to have a horse theme party this year. The planning was pretty easy, once we realized we could just take a field trip to the Mill Creek Retirement Home for Horses. She invited three new friends from school, and the Olsen girls from down the street (unfortunately one friend got sick and couldn't come).

 The party started on Saturday at 10:30, painting little horse sun catchers. We had an easy lunch of sandwiches and chips, then loaded up cars to drive to the horse farm. We have been there many times and the kids enjoy feeding carrots to the horses. The weather was great!

Unfortunately, Zach had a run in with one of the horses. He had a carrot in his hand and was standing too close to one of the pushier horses, and it bit his arm. Ouch! It didn't break the skin, but it turned quite reddish/purplish. It wasn't until bath time that night that we discovered his back and side had been bitten also. Poor kid...he was pretty traumatized but is just fine now.

After the horse farm we came back home for Texas Sheet Cake and presents. Rather than try to attempt a fancy horse cake, we just stuck some lego horses on top of the cake and called it good. Then the kids just had fun free play time for an hour or so.