Crazy Eight(s)

Guess who's 8? A sweet little blonde haired, blue-eyed girl!

Tayler kept telling us that this was going to be the best weekend EVER, so we have tried our best to keep her dreams alive.

Friday night, Sean and I let her choose a restaurant and took her out to dinner-- just the 3 of us. It was so nice to have some 1 on 1 time and celebrate HeR!

She chose Kobe's in Ogden, which is a Japanese Steakhouse. It was SOOOO good. Way better than Tepanyaki (i think). We had a wonderful time stuffing ourselves and being entertained. The waiters made her feel special as well. It was definitely a great night for all of us.

And THEN today was her friends party. 11 of the 12 girls we invited came, which made it a very full house. I had to work yesterday and this morning so it was crazy trying to get everything finished. Luckily, I have a pretty stellar husband that did so much while I was at work. I never would have finished everything without his help. The theme of her party was a Hawaiian Luau. We made flip-flops, painted and jeweled toe nails, played ALOHA bingo, ate Hawaiian haystacks, had a yummy punch with umbrella's, ate cake and ice cream and played with water balloons. The party was only suppose to go until 6:30 but at 6:02 we hadn't even started dinner yet, so all the girls called their parents and asked them not to come until 7. We had a blast. We still didn't get to do our relay race. It's amazing how fast time goes. I thought 2 hours would be plenty, but we could have partied for 3 or 4 hours! The girls were darling together. I really hope they enjoyed themselves.

here's the gang (notice all their flip flops)

I attempted to make a FlIp-FlOp cake- here's the finished product

Present time

Cake and ice cream was the last thing we got to do

Tayler has wonderful friends and I am so grateful for that! Thank you everyone for coming to help us celebrate our new little 8 year old! Now, I'm exhausted *sigh* Tomorrow is her actual birthday so we have 1 more day of fun ahead of us.

p.s. I ran 6 miles after the party. Pretty proud of myself. Sean and I are training for a half marathon the end of October. It may kill me, but so far so good ((: