The Griffin Gang: Abby's Birthday

Since Abby's birthday fell on a Sunday this year, my parents decided to come out here for it, which makes your birthday that much more fun. My mom just decided to start selling Stella & Dot Jewelry so she came out a few days early to have a party at my house for it. It's like she has a whole jewelry shop, she has so much of it. So it was fun to play with it and try stuff on...and I ended up getting lots of free stuff and 50% off lots of stuff since I was the hostess. And it's nothing pushy, just having people to come look and try on jewelry and then they can buy or not...That being said, if anyone ever wants to have a party and get free jewelry...my mom would love to do it and it would give her a chance to come visit us too.

Back to Abby's birthday. I can't believe I have a 7 year old. It's funny how every year on the kids' birthdays, it brings back so many memories from the day they were born. And Abby's birth experience and day she was born was definitely the most eventful and crazy of my 4 children. And every year it just makes me more thankful and grateful that everything turned out well and that she is a completely healthy little girl. But I can't believe how fast the years have gone, yet how much I still remember the feelings and thoughts I had back then.

each year around her birthday...I love this picture of her and Joe the week after she was born, the day she finally got to come home!

Anyway, Abby wanted to have a roller skating party, which she has been roller skating 3, maybe 4 times in her life, none of which, I have been there for. So I thought ok, easy enough, and booked it. All I needed to bring was cupcakes and that's it. Well, it ended up being a little more stressful than that, but Abby had a great time, and was happy the whole time. I didn't think about how they have like 6 parties at a time, and how most girls at this age can't skate. But they all would good sports, and everyone tried, and there were a couple that were pretty good at it.

She went back and forth using the skate-mate...she's really starting to try