Joint family party for Ryan and Katie

We decided to have a joint family party for Ryan and Katie so Grandma and Grandpa Johnson could be here to celebrate… so on July 2nd (a week after Ryan’s birthday and four days before Katie’s birthday we had a joint celebration and threw up some quick and easy 4th of July décor since we’d be missing that this week as well.    After hamburgers, hotdogs, Jell-O, snicker bar salad and yellow watermelon (Ryan’s birthday request) they started opening presents.

 

Cologne for Ryan…

A new baseball glove for Ryan from Dad.  Katie was surprised about a cute pink Fossil wallet.

 

BYU Wallet for Ryan.  Katie pleased with Ryan’s ‘coupon’ for any shirt off of the PS website.

 

I’ve been so excited for this girl to turn 12!  I’ve been planning a “Welcome to Young Women’s basket” for almost a year now.  Notecards, Value Journal, stickers, pencils, YW music, a Value bracelet and Theme/Value posters.  She’s all set for Young Women’s now.

 

The next ‘Adventures of DOD’ book that he wanted… and Legend of Zelda piano music.

 

Cute caterpillar card from the sisters… Katie is K-kind, A-awesome, T-top of Girls, I-intelligent, E-exciting, J-jolly, O-obedient, H-happy, N-nice, S-silly, O-organized, N-neat.   Megan gave Katie some black earrings since Katie will be getting her ears pierced any day now.

Both Ryan and Katie got $15.00 from Nikole and John in a stack of attached ‘ones’.  Pretty cool.

 

The Far Side for Ryan and new shirts for Katie.

New soccer balls from Dad.

GUITAR  Katie was pretty shocked about this next present.  She’s always said she wanted one but hasn’t mentioned it for quite a while.  She unwrapped the guitar picks and just stared at them until something clicked.  Then Chris came around the corner with her guitar.  It took her awhile to process.  It’s a 3/4 size which got great reviews online and seems like the perfect size.  She also got a few guitar lessons lined up with cute Lissie Allred in our ward to help her pick it up.

  

Grandma and Grandpa shocked the kids by giving them $100 each. Ryan also got some Jon Schmidt piano music and Katie some Taylor Swift guitar music.

Angel food cake with Trifle cream and strawberries for dessert.

A few days later Katie got a package from Grandma and Grandpa Walton with two new shirts and a scarf.  This girl loves clothes!   And Ryan got money and the new John Bytheway Book.  Awesome.