The Johnson Journal

I have always made the kids' birthday cakes. It is something that I really enjoy doing. This year Kaitlyn helped me make her cake. She helped mix all the icing colors. When it came time to decorate it, she wanted to help me with that too. I had to explain to her that maybe some day she could. It was really fun to have her help me. She is really growing up!

We had a wonderful day yesterday celebrating Kaitlyn's 5th Birthday. The theme of the party was Dora the Explorer. It was a well attended event with 20 adults and 25 children and most of them were family! We had a mexican fiesta with tacos, nachos, salsa, veggies and fruit kabobs, among many other things. Thanks to Kaitlyn's cousins, Chris and Taryn, we had to have fruit kabobs in a basket for her party. She saw those at their wedding reception last month and told me she wanted those for her birthday. I was hoping she'd forget as they looked quite complicated but she didn't! So, we made fruit kabobs for her birthday and they were a hit.

Kaitlyn received so many nice presents and everyone had lots of fun getting candy out of the pinata. Some of the boys were upset that they didn't get to hit the pinata. It was a pull-string pinata - much safer.


We even had time to squeeze in a picture of Great Grandma Johnson and almost all of her great grandkids. It was a bit of a challenge getting 11 children to sit still long enough to get a picture!

It was a very special day celebrating a very special girl!!