Now that Christmas and Emily's birthday is out of the way I can get back to blogging. Emily turned 9 on Sunday January 8th. She was sad that it was on Sunday and we couldn't have her party, so we invited the family over to celebrate.
This is Emily's owl cake that she helped decorate. We had fun! She was a great froster of all the cupcakes. She is growing up so fast. She loves to help in the kitchen whenever she can. She is so creative and is always making things to give to others.
The day started with a Crispy Cream donut with a candle of course. We had ribs and heavenly potatoes, green jello with pineapple, and green salad for dinner. We played "Who Knew" Emily's favorite new game. The night ended with Just Dance 2. Sam wins the award for the cutest. Everyone was involved. Even Aunt Jill was doing the moves from the couch. Quite entertaining.
On Monday Emily had a Birthday baking party with a few friends. My sister Jill got me started with this fancy party from this website One Charming Party. I made aprons for everyone and Jill made all the fun decorations and invitaiton. She ended up sick with kidney stones on Monday and I was in a panic. Thanks to Lauren for coming to the rescue we had everything ready in time.
According to Emily party was the "Best Birthday Ever!" The girls made flowers for their hats and decorated cupcakes Emily picked out. We had hot fudge cupcake sundaes for the finale. Once all the preparations were done the party was lots of fun.
All the girls had fun with Kiwi. Jake tried to chased them around the house with his snake, Crusher. They also had fun playing Kinect sports. After the party we decided to go out to dinner to Quizno's and while we were gone Maddie ate all of Emily's cupcakes, paper and all. I had put them on the little table to take a picture and left them there when we left the house. Needless to say there were lots of tears by Emily "I didn't even get to taste one!" We told her at least we put Kiwi away before we left, so Maddie didn't eat her!
