9 going on 16

In the last couple of months I have noticed how concerned Savanna is with her looks. She spends quite a bit of time working on picking out her outifts, and she has started doing her own hair. I have to say she does a pretty great job! It makes me a little sad that my little girl is growing up! I just hope that she continues to be the nice girl that she has always been and that she has the self confidence that she deserves to have.

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Spider party

Grandma and the kids eating their lunch. Most everyone wore their spider shirts from last year if they still fit.

Elijah and Mitchel

Sara and Carolina and Kate

Sara was in charge of taking the littlest group of kids around for their treasure hunt. All of these kids adore her.

Kent got to take the middle group of kids and they kept him running.

Stevan took the oldest troup on their treasure hunt, but I didn't get a picture of him doing it.

Ruth, Val, Steve and Kent

Last week was our annual Sargent spider party. My Mom is such a fun Grandma and plans these cute parties for her grandkids. This year she invited several of her neighborhood kids to come too. Each of the kids were supposed to find a spider and put it in a jar and bring it to the party. She had lunch, spider games, a treasure hunt and cute little gift bags with lots of spider treasures for each kid. These kids loved it. And I love just going and hanging out with my great family.

Mitchel's football

Elijah, Mitchel and Hayden (yellow shirts)

Mitchel was #1.

Mitch played football again this year. He had a great season and their team did a lot better this year than last year. They probably won almost half of their games which was a vast improvement over last year where they didn't win any. Mitch was a great blocker, and he even got the chance to run the ball a few times and scored a few touch downs. I really enjoy watching them play ball. He was on a team with his cousins Cooper and Elijah and Hayden Jackson. He played on Ed Murdock and Christian Taylors team with a bunch of cute boys from Ammon. I don't think with Mitchel's size he will end up being a big football star, but I am glad he gets the chance to learn the game and participate on a team sport.

Savanna's 9 year old friend party

We don't do friend birthday parties very often at our house. In fact this is only the 2nd one Savanna has ever had. She was so excited, she invited 12 of her closest friends (all of them being girls except for her cousin Easton boy). We had all kinds of fun with these kids. We had a pizza lunch, donut eating contest, potato sack races, we made bracelets, did a fishing pond, pinata, ate cake and ice cream and opened presents. I got a bit frazzled by the end of the party trying to keep up with all these extra kids along with my 2 little ones that were being little turkey's. Thank heavens Aunt Leah came to help. The only thing I forgot was to take a picture of the whole group.
Savanna opening her presents

Just for memory sake the kids that came to the party were: Megan Hales, Olivia Jenson, Jody Schwicht, Easton Sargent, Emily and Sarah Hamilton, McKinley Anglin, Maddy & Kynzee Williams, Eliza Willey, and Madison Carter. There were a few other girls that were invited that weren't able to make it.

This year instead of a cake she opted for cupcakes, it was kind of fun!

All the kids enjoying their ice cream cones and cupcakes

The girls especially enjoyed making their own bracelets

Carolina and little Olivia- they wanted to be right in on all of the birthday party action

The donut eating contest was a huge success- everyone loved that!

Maddy and Savanna

Mitch, Megan, Eliza and Sarah

Going to town on the donuts!

Enjoying the sunshine while they ate their lunch. Thankfully it was a nice sunny day!

Fuhriman cousins- Emily, McKinley and Sarah

Jody

Savanna's 2nd 9 year old birthday party

Saturday night after the Priesthood session we had the Fuhriman family over to celebrate Savanna and Aunt Corri's birthday. She is so lucky that she gets to celebrate her birthday's each year with her Aunts. She was very excited because she got the ripstick that she was hoping for from her Mom and Dad.

She got lots of fun toys and gifts from her Aunts and Uncles, and some really cute Ragedy Ann and Andy dolls from Grandma and Grandpa Fuhriman.

Aunt Corri opening her presents

Savanna blowing out her cupcakes

Savanna's 3rd birthday party

Savanna was lucky enough to get to celebrate her birthday with my sister Sara and her husband Shane. We had an enjoyable dinner and party with my family on Sunday night. Savanna loves her aunt Sara and she really admires her so it is always fun for her to share a birthday with her. She got tons of darling new outfits from my family and some new rollerblades from Grandma and Grandpa Sargent. She is a bit spoiled, but we all love her so much!
Kent, Talmage, Sara, Treyton and Steve. (I think Treyton was just soaking in some time with his Aunt and Uncles.)

The birthday kids! Shane, Savanna and Sara. All the "S" names share their birthdays.