Vika's Birthday

It was Vika's 7th birthday a few weeks ago. She wanted a birthday party so bad, but we were really busy with Soccer tournaments and Basketball tournaments. Her birthday was on March 14, which was the first day of Jonny's JV Basketball tournament at our school. We had to host a two boys from another school in Yanbu, which is on the West Coast of Saudi. We had planned to just have a simple party with cake, ice cream, and a few presents.

Vika was outside playing so I sent Rachel and Jonny out to find her and they came back with a houseful of kids.
These are all the kids on our compound, the older ones at least. They heard the word party and came running.
Vika got a new bike for her birthday. She had a small on in China with training wheels which she didn't get to ride much. Gavin took her outside and she was riding like a pro on two wheels within minutes.
We had just enough cake and ice cream. I'm not a big cake fan so I'm glad we had lots of people to help us eat it all.
The kids all just hung out for awhile. The advantage of living on a compound is that we become just one big happy family. There seems to always be someone for the kids to play with.
Of course Sassy had to be part of the party too.
Vika had to put on a show for us all with her awesome dance moves. She is quite the little hip hop dancer. She's even does the robot.

PARTY NUMBER TWO!!!!

About a week later we actually had an official party for Vika where she invited some of her friends. She wanted chocolate cupcakes so I attempted to decorate them. It's hard to see but some actually spell out Happy Birthday.

Only a few of her friends were actually able to come. Everyone is just too busy right now, but it still was a fun party.
The next morning we had an encore party with some of her other friends who couldn't come the day before. The girls all dressed up and modeled while the boys pretended to be photographers. They put music on and had a little dance.