Doodle's Birthday Bash!

Saturday was the big day for Doodle's 12th birthday party for the family. We had both sides over to the lake house and it was so much fun. The kids went tubing, fished and rode the sea-doo until they dropped!

All the cousins with Doodle and Bean. Love it when the group gets together.

The older girls tubing...Doodle in middle.


The middle girls tubing: Bean on right.


The three boys tubing.


Matt with one of the nieces on the sea doo.


Grandpa helping some of the kids out of the paddle boat.

After all that water fun, the kids needed to relax a bit.

Even the big kids had fun. My brother fishing off the dock.
Doesn't he look like a little boy sitting there?!

The adults wave as the boat full of kids goes by once more.

We had a lot of excitement with that as well as in the kitchen. Poor Grandma was making her marvelous macaroni and cheese when she heard a loud explosion.

Grandma

Luckily, she was at the sink at the time. She had accidentally turned the back burners on instead of the front burners. Doodle's cakes sat on the back burners, one of which was in a Pyrex glass dish. It truly exploded! I have never seen so much glass cover one area in my life! So, Aunt Tammy, Ennie and I went to work cleaning it up with the help of Grandma. She took off shortly after to purchase a cake and another side dish since we were all a bit gun shy to eat anything that was even close to that dish after we saw how far the glass flew. Nonetheless, Doodle's party went off well and the cake Grandma bought was a hit.

Nana and Poppy were not able to join us for the party on Saturday so they came over on Doodle's actual birthday Tuesday. We had a lovely time celebrating her big day both times. She is so blessed to have so many people who love her and want to spend their day or evening celebrating her day.

Doodle on Tuesday with her cake.

Nana and Poppy with Doodle.

Doodle acting out the card Nana and Poppy gave her about the cool things about being 12! Cracked us up!

Doodle and me...can't believe it has been 12 years! Where has all the time gone? I still remember the first time I was blessed to see this little face that I got to call my own daughter. Now I am looking her almost eye to eye and she is this beautiful, young lady in the making. I thank God for the special gift of being her mom.