The Party

Dicie is really such a creative and fun girl!  For her birthday she planned a fun camping-theme party, complete with a backyard camp-out.  We really lucked out and the weather was great for it.

First up was setting up the tent (Dicie insisted that this would be a super fun activity to start the evening out)!  Dicie was, of course, dressed in her camping-best (she's becoming quite the little fashionista)!

Next up was the good ol' traditional pin the hot dog and marshmallow on the roasting stick game!

Then it was cook-out time! BBQ hot dogs were Dicie's choice for camping fare.

She opened her gifts from her sweet friends.  Here they all are: Emma, Dicie, Madison, and Nya. You would be hard-pressed to find a more diverse group, but somehow putting them all together was just right.  Dicie is lucky to have such good friends!

 The birthday song was sung, the candles were extinguished (with the very cool candle-blower that Mia made for Dicie!), and the s'mores-brownie-cake was devoured by all.

The girls made fireflies out of glowsticks and hung them in the tent, then they watched a movie out there and ended up staying up till (reportedly) 2am!  I'm sure they all had quite the birthday-hangover the next day!

The day after the party was actually the 1st, therefore Dicie's real birthday.  It was also General Conference.  We all had a nice day, but unfortunately Dicie got a pretty bad stomach ache in the evening.  She opened her family gifts while feeling truly miserable!  She felt better by bedtime thankfully.  She's now officially in the double-digits and we're very proud of our girl who is becoming such a lovely, mature, and responsible young lady!