Happy Birthday Morgan!

 Wow.  I really AM getting old.  I can't believe I have a 9 year old.  This year we wanted to shake things up a bit and throw a "surprise party" for Morgan.  The thing is this though........she totally knew about it ahead of time.  It's a good thing that I'm married to the king of "awesome tricks up his sleeve".  Morgan saw an invitation that was taped to her friend's door the week before her party.  (You turkey, Morgan).  So we told her that none of her friends could come, so we had to cancel the party.  The tricky part about this though was that her friends were talking about it at school TO MORGAN (FYI, 9 year olds don't keep surprises too well) saying, "yeah, it's not cancelled, I'm totally coming!".  So we had a few phone calls from parents and had to assure them that "Yes, we ARE still having the party" while telling Morgan, "I don't know what your friends are talking about.  They obviously haven't talked to their parents."

Nice.

So all that lying totally came in handy....as you'll see in the photo's below.  It was FUN.  NEE. 

Morgan's favorite things:

reading

playing with friends (and deciding which to crown the all-coveted BFF)

making crazy faces and sounds

eating cold pizza

and downing any form of sugar given to her

did I mention reading?

Anyway, here are her photo-journalism birthday photo's.  Don't you love the candle in her toast?  Yes, I'm an amazing, creative Mom....I know.  (ha!)

You'll also note her mark on the wall gauging how tall she's gotten, her chocolate milk courtesy of Dad, and her birthday treat she took to school....

Aw...she's happy.

You work it......

The boys helped me out with the cake....

 Grandma even came to visit.  We love Grandma.

She's nuts.  Morgan LOVES those crazy poses and crazy faces....just wait till you see some more below.

He's got rhythm......

Love this girl.

 

 I think she got 3 different tries to blow out her candles, and this was #3.  Hence the exaggerated eyes...

 As Morgan was eating ice cream with Dad, we got ready for the big moment.  As you can see, each and every child was riveted ~ on the edge of their seat ~ just wai........oh nevermind.

 So do you think the surprise worked?  HA!!

 Yep, that's our Morgan

We love you bug!!