Birthday party

Emily celebrated her 6th birthday!  She started her day with her breakfast choice of "Lucky Charms". 

I told Emily she could have a friend party this year and she thought long and hard about what she wanted to do.  She chose to have a "Cooking Party" with her friends, so that is what we did to celebrate!

We passed out recipe cards for the birthday invitations.  Emily invited 11 friends/cousins and all of the girls came for cooking fun! 

We stared by decorating chef hats and aprons for each girl.  Then we made pizzas, played games and decorated cupcakes.  It was a lot of fun and all the girls seemed to really have a good time.

Here are a few pictures from the party.

Aunt Natalie came to be "The Master Chef". She helped coordinate everyone and really saved me!  It got a little crazy cooking, opening presents and playing games, dealing with two brothers etc..  It was also a huge help that Grandma Shields had Lizzie and Isaac during the party,

Thanks for your help Natalie & Mom!

After the party we had dinner with the cousins and family.  We all made more pizzas and then had more cake and ice cream with dad and G & G Shields. 

After we sang "Happy Birthday" and Emily blew out the candles, we told her to make a wish.  She said " I wish for nothing"!!!
I guess that means she liked the party and had a fabulous Birthday.  Whew- I am happy if she was happy!

Overall if was a fun, crazy & exhuasting day, but it was great to see Emily with all of her cute friends.  They were all really nice girls and well behaved. 

After the second round of cupcakes we had FHE. We all talked about Emily and told our favorite things about her and looked at her scrapbook from when she was born. 

We love our six year old girl!  We are so happy you are in our family!
Happy Birthday!