Aubrey's birthday celebration

For Aubrey's birthday, we had dinner at a restaurant of her choice and a family party at home. We have decided to alternate years with kid parties/family parties to alleviate stress and save money. Also, its what my family did and I remember loving the kid parties just as much as our more intimate family parties. Lots of memories from both! And I'm really glad this year was a family party year since the timing of the surgery and everything. So, Aubrey picked Chili's(we all love Chili's!) and we told the staff it was her birthday so they sang to her and brought her a milkshake. She was a teensy embarassed to have the whole restaurant looking at her and clapping while the staff busted out a birthday song, but she didn't mind once they gave her the free shake:) Heres the fam at Chili's that night...

At home, we had decorated the kitchen with "Camp Rock" stuff and surprised her with it. She really liked that. We even played some rockin Camp Rock tunes. Joey had picked up a cookies n cream icecream cake and it was delish!

Aubrey walking into the kitchen

Heres Ella jammin to the music

Happy Birthday to you!

Time to blow out the candles! She blew out all 7 at once. Hope your wish comes true, Aubrey!

Ella digging in

Cali dug way inTime for presents. She opened her presents from Ella, her Grandma & Grandpa, her Nana & Tata, and me and Joey.

Ella had made her a beautiful card

Thanks Ella!

A Diamond Castle Barbie!

Hullabaloo!

A groovy girls doll and pony!

Joey and I bought her a digital camera. At first, we bought her a kids camera, but it was junk(super slow and took cruddy pics), so we went back to the store and got her a real camera that was actually the same price as the kid camera and its even pink! She loves it.

I think this was her favorite present-and it didn't cost us a dime! Her very own blog! (perfect to go with her new camera) I set up a blog for her that day and told her she could do it all herself. She has posted one post so far, but has many more up her sleeve:)I've sent a lot of invites out(its a private blog) but if I haven't sent you one and you'd like to be a reader, let me know and give me your email address.

This was her face when she realized what was on the computer screen...priceless:)

A very happy blogger
I hope you enjoyed your birthday Aubrey! We still plan on taking you guys somewhere fun this week, so don't worry! Bowling, skating, whatever you want!