Tuesday, October 27, 2009

fourteen...

Our little miss Maren is not so little anymore. . . and it's making me panic a bit!

For her 14th birthday celebration, she and a few of her friends were able to spend the evening {CREATING}! They each picked a piece of pottery, came up with their own designs and then painted away. They all did such a great job on their creations!

The girls had one table and the rest of us had another! The littlest one of 'us' stayed home to play with a sitter. But, just look at all of our artists at work!

Dad working hard on his choice of pottery...a skull!

And like father, like son. I must admit, their skulls looked pretty awesome!

Arrgghh! 'Pirate' Millie was so in to this little penguin. I was unsure how much time she would really spend on painting it. She was very careful and did such a great job!

And look at this masterpiece. Truly. Natalie could have a real future at being an artist!

The whole gang back at home for food and movie fun! Very nice girls, those friends of hers.

Our family celbration consisted of a personal requested birthday dinner of steak, potatoes, and fruit salad. Even Grammy and Papa were able to join us! But no cake for this one. Maren asked for a Lemon Blueberry Tart. A true sign of getting older...more mature tastebuds!

And she thought she knew everything that she was getting - one of her surprises was a charm necklace with her initial.


We sure love this girl! Happy Birthday Maren! We hope you had a wonderful 14th. XOXOXO

4 comments:

Melanie Anne said...

Happy Birthday Maren!! Wow she is getting more beautiful by the day! It sounds like a great birthday! I love the pottery party...and the tart sounds divine! Did you make it Kaley? You might need to email me the recipe so it can debut on Sisterscafe:)

Jer and Cam said...

Gorgeous Maren! Happy Birthday. What a great party idea. Wish you were here to be my babysitter!!! Soon you'll be too busy dating (sorry Kaley) to babysit!

Rhonda said...

Happy birthday to Maren. She has sure grown into a beautiful young lady. And that little man of yours is a very handsome little guy. I just got a facebook invite from Toby Overson. It was great to see new pictures of Hailey as well. These girls have grown up as awesome as I would have expected.

Kari said...

Looks like such a fun party!! Reminds me of Paint Yourself Silly in AZ.
Happy Birthday, Maren! You are turning into such a darling young women.