La Gata poo is 12!

That really is a terrible nickname....but it is said with the utmost love. :)

Catherine and Milla get one year of overlap in young women's and this year is it! In two weeks, she, Milla and Sean will all get to go to the temple to do baptisms together.  A sweet time before my kids start leaving home.

The birthday theme this year was:

"Pandicorn"

What? My kids have to show me pictures of everything that they tell me about anymore. Catherine didn't want a 'friend party', opting instead to hang with the family and follow the Eyre traditional birthday format: morning presents, pin the (horn) on the (panda) and other games and finally the pinata.  We finished off the festivities by going to MovieTavern to have lunch and watch the new 'Pete's Dragon'.  Which was awesome.

A few pics so you can feel like you were really there (sorry didn't get pics of my mushroom/eggplant/pepper sandwich at the movies...mmmm)

I bundled 12 curled candles together to make the horn so we had a bit of a blaze...

first time trying a rainbow cake but got 4 thumbs up from the kids ;)

Ahhhh....pandicorn! Cute as a button.  A really cute button.

Rin's elephant shares her birthday so she brought him down for the festivities. Our gift to her was mama's old cell phone complete with the panda cover she picked out for me last year. She seemed okay with the hand-me-down. The rest are from grandparents and siblings.  On opening her 100 gel pens she cried, 'Finally! More than 2 shades of brown!!!'
(you know you are an artist when that comes out of your mouth ;)