Elijah's 7th Birthday!

We celebrated Elijah's Birthday this weekend with a big party for family and friends!  We tried, once again, to combine the two groups rather than having two birthday parties.  And amazingly, this party went much better than last year!  Yay!

We started the day by giving Elijah his birthday present from us:  2 turtles!  Elijah has been saving up for a turtle since Christmas and he was sooo excited!  He named them Sam and Missy.
  

In the afternoon we had his birthday party, which was quite large:  12 adults and 15 children, not including our family!  I had planned a few activities for the kids to do, which seemed to help to keep things under control and manageable.  I also had several adults out back supervising kids, so we didn't have any accidents this year, whew!