Norah is 8!!!!!!!! We celebrated for about a week! She had an early birthday party with friends and cousins at Bounce Gymnastics on May 20th. I made her a special birthday breakfast on her birthday (German pancake with strawberries and a candle) and also had a family dinner for her (and another cake) on May 27th. Here are some pics from her party. Side note - Norah and Alice have been taking gymnastics classes at Bounce since February.
On the far right you can see two ladies running the party - Ms. Robin and Ms. Ashley. Ms. Robin was a PE teacher at Norah's school until she started her job managing Bounce and Ms. Ashley still is a PE teacher at the school. It was really fun for Norah to have them celebrate with her. Ms. Ashley told us that Norah is very creative with her imaginative play on the playground at school.
Freya loves Nathan so much she came out to play with him during the party
The obligatory candle blowing shot
We gave out chicken flingers for party favors and the kids were flinging them all over after the party
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Alice told me her favorite part of the day was finding caves and pretending she was a bat
Freya loves Nathan so much she came out to play with him during the party
We gave out chicken flingers for party favors and the kids were flinging them all over after the party 
Last weekend we celebrated Natalie graduating from the University of Wyoming with a BS in nursing. She's headed to Cheyenne for the summer to work as an ER nurse.
Norah had her first piano recital on May 6th. She played Blue Danube by Strauss. I'm so proud of how hard Norah has worked this year at piano. She is fortunate to have an incredible (and incredibly overqualified) teacher, Dr. Irina Moreland, and under her instruction she has learned so much. Most of my piano recitals were in the cozy living rooms of my piano teachers. Norah's was in a beautiful and intimidating auditorium at a grand piano and in front of a large audience made up of family members of students. She had never played a grand piano before, let along in front of such a large audience. I am sure I would have run out of the hall crying at her age but she was brave and composed. Brava Norah!