Celebrating Soren's 10th Birthday...again

With a birthday that comes over the Christmas holidays you get jipped when it comes to having friends around, so we waited until today to have a party for Soren. She chose to do a mall scavenger hunt and it went really well, especially considering the fact that I did not put any work into it. We found some scavenger hunt lists online, printed them out and took off with 6 giggly girls. Nana and I took the kids to the mall with their list and told them to see how many things they could check off in one hour. A great success as far as birthdays go. Happy Birthday, again, Soren!

loaded up and ready to go

Some of the things we had to do:

doing the wave

wearing sunglasses

one of the tasks was to buy a piece of gum. what we ended up with was a bag of 6 colossal gum balls which made for lovely colored mouths for the rest of the trip!

rather than having another birthday cake, Soren and her friends each chose something from the cookie place in the mall. We decided to take our choices with us and eat some dinner before enjoying the sweets

straws were quite the entertainment at dinner

just in case we had not ingested enough sugar (colossal gum balls, cookies, endless sprite...) the waitress brought out a chocolate shake in honor of Soren's birthday

more straw fun