July 6 - Molly's Birthday

Molly is turning 9! She wanted her daddy to teach all her friends how to paint for her party. He did an excellent job, and everyone had lots of fun.

The "class" of 11 girls.

The start of Janessa's flower.

Aubrey is doing her petals.

Jenna working on her center.

Andi adding color.

Lookin' good, Lexi.

Katie working on her background.

Andi and Sadie seem to be having fun.

Allie is working on her background.

Molly gets to paint with her daddy.

Janessa is almost done.

Kacy is concentrating hard.

After the painting was all done Molly blew out the candles of her beautiful cake that Janessa made for her.

Then opening gifts, everyone's favorite part. Especially the birthday girl.

A lego friends set from the Bells.

Molly had received a sewing machine for her birthday from her parents and the Hoggards gave her lots of cloth, a beautiful pin cushion, and a sewing bag. 

Mason had some firecrackers left over from the 4th, so we did some experiments. We tested the power of the firecrackers by putting a solo cup over them. He had some black cats that sent it about 8 feet into the air, but he also had some other fire crackers that were much larger. They didn't send the cup very high, no they mutilated it.

Light and run.

See the cup? That was a black-cat.

And here is the remains from the other firecrackers.

While Jenna and Zach were waiting for Mason to light the firecrackers they were doing all sorts of athletic exercises like this one. For a normal person that would be excruciating pain, but for Jenna it was just fun. Zach seems to be having fun too. 

Another goofy position, Yes she is doing the splits. That hurts to look at it, but she said it didn't hurt at all.

After the party had wound down some all the kids went outside to have a water fight. Everyone was soaked...but I guess it isn't really a water fight unless that happens.