BIG BIRTHDAY BASH

EMma poses with her new baby who she named "molly", a gift from Nana and Poppy Henszey. She was going for that backpack/carseat look. :)

Emma also got some great gifts from Uncle Tom and Aunt Megan.

When Emma opens gift, she takes this quick breath in as if she is just so suprised and pleased with the gift. No matter if the gift giver was present or not, emma would say, "thank you for my presents everybody."

Here is the cuddley polar bear that Uncle Tom and Aunt Megan got her. She hasn't named the bear yet, but Kyle and I think it looks as though it may be a distant relative of Jellygut.

Uncle Rich and Aunt Michelle sent Em this great paper doll set. Emma could hardly wait to open it this weekend. We put it off to the weekend since we thought it would be a good cold day weekend thing to do. So we would tell her that she needed to wait until the weekend and she would reason, "please? i will only just do it a tiny little bit". :) Anyway, Saturday came and Emma had a GREAT time making her paper dolls. Emma also got a big box full of goodies including a pink fp3 player. And her boyfriend Tommy sent her a beautiful new shirt. Whatta guy. Between all of the gifts, I think Em received a package every day this week. THANK YOU ALL!!!!:)

Thank you also to Nana Henszey for coming down to help us have such a blast and help make em's party such a fun one. Emma loved having her here and if only we had a dime for everytime emma calls out, "nana henszey!!" :)

She thinks it's really funny to put her hair in her mouth like this. I think she pretends its a mustache. She's a silly one.

Emma getting a magic carpet ride from Nana. In later pictures, you will notice that Emma picked out pink and green streamers and she also chose to wear pink and green to her party. We think it was an homage to pinky and greeny.

Saturday night, Nana made homemade pizza crusts...25 little ones...just the right size for emma and friends-sized belly.

Emma decorated beautiful goody bags with stickers and markers for each child that came to the party. We filled them with crazy straws, koosh balls- type things, lollipops, stickers, playdough, little slinkys,dora lipgloss ( for the girls) and little lizard figurines for the boys. Hooray for the dollar store!

emma always takes her pwojects seriously.

The Aquarius sisters

Emma still really likes when we say a prayer at night. Usually she likes us to say one, and then she says one. One of her latest was, " Dear God, thank you for all the places we do. Love, Santa. Amen."

After Em went to bed, Mommy Daddy and Nana worked like little elves decorating the kitchen, making her cake and filling gift bags. Daddy made another amazing cake this year. Curious George. Nana took some great pictures of it, so we'll post some when she sends them. We have all decided perhaps Kyle should go in to the cake decorating business. He's awesome! One mom that was at the party liked the cake so much she asked him if he would make a Dora cake for her daughter in February.

Check out all those colors. That is all Emma! :)

Helping Mommy blow up balloons. Always the helper.

This morning Emma woke up and came downstairs to discover the whole kitchen decorated, and did another one of those sounds like when she open a gift. She ran up to the table and asked,
"is this going to be my party??" Emm was so charged up for her big party that she sat in her seat at the table for a good part of the morning, anticipating the kid's arrival.

At one point this morning whilr we were all busy preparing for the party, I found Emma doing this in the kitchen:

Those are little stickers all over the floor. She explained that that was her game for the party and that everyone had to jump on each sticker. pretty inventive...like her own little version of hop scotch. after i congratulated her on her creative idea, i asked that she not put any more stickers on the floor she responded, "but it's just my game, mama. "

countdown to party time

soon the house was filled (literally) with kids and their parents. It was so nice to have the parents stay and help out, especially since all these guys are pretty little. I heard a couple of people say that this was their child's first "friend" birthday party..so emma was not the only one fired up! The kids were so cute with eachother, gretting eachother with hellos and hugs and they all played so nicely. It was great to see. They are truly an adorable crew. Emma had seven kids come to her party; Claire, Taylor,Billy, Chloe, Madison, Thomas and Ethan.

We set out dixie cups of sauce, cheese, pepperoni and peppers and let each kid make their own pizza. They did a great job and the pizza tasted fabulous. Here Madison is showing us her culinary skills.

once the kids finished making their pizza, we headed to our back yard for some sledding. this was such a highlight of the party. everyone ( parents and kids alike) had so much fun and lots of laughs sledding for almost an hour.

I think we all are so happy to finally see some snow. A bunch of us stood at the bottom to stop the kids once they hit the bottom of the hill. After a few trails were blazed (and much to their delight) kids were picking up serious speed!

Then it was inside for pizza and most importantly, cake.

Whoops- a couple more sledding pictures. Here is Mark with Billy(3) and Ethan(2) on his lap.

The Hill

Claire and Emma got cold and came in early to warm up. They sat and chatted about who their favorite My Little Pony is.

More candles to blow out!!!!! YES!






After lunch and cake, the kids headed to the living room to watch Emma open her gifts.





Notice Claire to Emma's left. She had many different dress up outfits throughout the day and loved digging through to see what all she could find in emma's dress up chest. I think our favorite was yellow, sparkly sunglasses, a pink cape and a lai. When we complemented CLaire on the look and told her she looked beautiful, she said, " i know."

Chloe and Madison, rosey cheeked and warming up after the fun outside.

Taylor and Emma doing the same.

this picture speaks a thousand words.