Lucy and Ellory's 7th birthday- friend/Schut celebration.

Happy birthday to our sweet 7 year olds! It's so fun to remember their birth every year and look back on old pictures and videos. Sometimes it's still hard to believe they were both inside me at once! Lucy and Ellory, celebrating you is a joy because you bring so much joy to our family! We are SO thankful you are our daughters and we love you very much! 

Lucy and Ellory had a friend party at Kinderzone (a local indoor play place) with crafts, play time, DQ ice cream cake, and Pizza Ranch pizza. What fun! We pray you have good friends and are good friends!

Lucy had a superhero theme and Ellory had a rainbow theme. So fun to see what they want to choose each year!

Unfortunately, their birthday didn't turn out as exciting as we had hoped because of sickness. All the family on my side was supposed to come stay with us for the weekend, but Kley and I both got influenza. It was terribly sad- all the cousins were super disappointed to not be able to be together. I felt it coming the day before but tried to act fine, but by Friday morning (their actual birthday) I felt terrible. My parents had come up the night before, so they were there and stayed to help with the party so they could at least still have that, which I'm so thankful for! Kley felt it coming a little bit too, but didn't get it bad until after the party that night. So, I missed their birthday party and had to stay home alone- so sad! I'm so sad they couldn't have the original weekend of fun that was planned, but I'm so glad they still got to have their party, and they also got to sleepover at their grandparents' that live close to us Saturday night, so they still got to do something fun over the weekend too! (All three of the girls ended up getting it at the end of the weekend too, so at least we all got it at once!)

Happy birthday, our sweet Ellory!

I'm sad Kley and I both got sick when my parents were here, but it was so nice that they could help with the party and that they could still see the girls for a little bit! (They went home that night after the party, understandably so since we were sick, but so nice they stayed to help!)

Happy birthday, our sweet Lucy!