Happy 13th Birthday Shanna and Haley!

The big day came! Shanna and Haley turned 13, bringing our number of teenagers to four!  There are challenges at every age and those challenges get harder, but I love having teenagers. 

For the cakes Haley wanted a double chocolate torte with a picture of the Dungeon and Dragons emblem.

I bought some food markers but they didn't arrive till the afternoon of the girls' birthday.  I wanted Haley to draw it on her cake.  But she gave me the idea of creating a stencil. Then I used food coloring gel to color it in.

Shanna wanted a lime jello mold for her cake.  She even made it herself!

Lee made crepes and bacon for breakfast.  Haley wanted the crepes, Shanna the bacon.

Before the festivities that afternoon the kids did their Saturday jobs.

Happy Birthday girls!

They each put trick candles on their cakes.

Clark gave the girls a Lego set that had belonged to him.  They really liked that present.

They had fun opening cards from their Bartholomew and Robertson grandparents and then some mail that also came on their birthday.

The kids enjoyed trying out the food markers with leftover fondant.

The Peterson's stopped by and gave Shanna and Haley presents. They loved it.

One of the goodies from the Peterson's!

Shanna and Haley each got a card but this the one for Haley..

Haley did some art work along with Elden and Shanna by swinging a marker and flicking the ink on paper.  Here is one of the creations.  I really liked this one.

We had fun celebrating their birthday!  Here are a couple pictures from when they were younger.

Shanna and Haley on their 4th birthday.

Me about a week before they were born.

The girls on Mother's Day 2007.  They were blessed that day as family was already in town, in Missouri.

We love you Shanna!  We love you Haley!  We are so grateful you are both part of our family and that we can have this great adventure together!  Haley loves Pokemon, getting chased by dad, tickling people, making fudge, drawing dragons and playing games.  She rides her bike to school, plays the piano, and works hard at school.  Shanna loves to do flips on the trampoline, dance with dad, make jello, play games with siblings, rearrange her room and make little creations.  She plays the piano, works hard at school, loves watermelon, and has fun keeping in contact with her friend Cortlyn.