Meadow's 13th Birthday Party

We woke up to down pouring rain.

Once the rain had slowed down, Theo and I walked over to the Kingfield Farmers Market.

Theo picked another Bundt cake as his treat.

I have never seen it so dead.

I got some rhubarb to make jam and Israeli bagels that I wasn't expecting to be long. On our walk home we also picked up some free pots and a Minecraft book.

Both of our vacuums have bit the dust. I was trying to hold out until Black Friday to buy another one when I saw there was deals thanks to Prime Day. Theo said he's never seen me this excited before, not even my birthday.

I used up all of my gift cards I'd earned from Medica. Yeah, I know, it's weird. Walking for two years got us a vacuum.

I had vacuumed in the morning with our old vacuum and then again with our new one. Ew.

Usually I'm the one stressing out before guests come over but this time it was Scott. He was deep cleaning everything.

We both have blind spots for different parts of the house I guess.

We originally thought we'd have her party in the backyard but it looked like more storms were coming. Of course the entire time her friends were here it didn't rain.

My plan for the day was to make and can strawberry rhubarb jam from the strawberries we had picked.

Meadow's birthday parties are pretty simple these days. Brooke and Meadow always come up with good ideas.

She originally wanted to go to Color Me Mine. We didn't have enough people to reserve the party room and we had too many people to drive over together. So we settled on crafting at home. She decided to paint pots and then everyone could take home a plant.

Snacks and pottery painting.

I was real nervous getting photos of the youngsters having fun. Middle schoolers are intimidating.

I forget how easy canning is. I had in mind this was going to take most of the day but I was done within 2 hours.

Meadow and her friends are pretty creative.

She got a few nice gifts from her friends.

After weeks of slow progress the wall behind the new bathroom sink was ready to go.

Theo kept to himself all day playing on the iPad upstairs.

In the dark...

We finished Meadow's birthday party night with her favorite: bibimbap.

Theo and I finally put up the little fence we bought to protect the raspberries from bunnies.

On her actual birthday Meadow wanted ramen for dinner.

We settled on Kyatchi where we could get ramen and veggie sushi.

Then we had ice cream cake from Milk Jam.

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