ARIELLE'S BIRTHDAY!

Arielle turns 10 on Wednesday. We looked over the schedule.....three men working...and decided it would be best to celebrate her birthday today.

Josiah took the kids to RE (Sunday School). This was the last Sunday until fall and so they were having a party. While they were gone Mike, the older girls and I wrapped gifts, blew up balloons, set out decorations and got ready to party. Krista and I had made an ice cream cake last night.

Just to show off the hair do!LOL

When they got home we opened gifts. She was thrilled to get a bracelet from Mexico (girls' mission trip), computer games, princess movie, Mandie books, alarm clocks and SPY THINGS. Here she opens a gift Mike brought back from his deployment. THEN we went to the base bowling ally for lunch and bowling (another RE thing - photos tomorrow?). Josiah test drove another car - a Toyota Camry this time. Mike was preaching in two services today. We went to the evening service. A FUN thing for us is seeing one of the young students in the service. I babysat for his family when we lived in Hardin. It's a joy to see him all grown up and here at our base. He's not in the Air Force but we train all intel and fire dogs for all services here.

Back at home we had cake. Bre and Cy had picked up sparklers for the cake. The sparks don't show well in the photo but Arielle was leery.