Eight is Great

Little Ms. Emma Jane turned 8 on Saturday!  (I’m a couple days behind in my blogging)…

She wanted a chocolate cake with red icing for her birthday.  I did the homemade version (don’t worry, you won’t see me on the food network anytime soon).  When I started mixing the red food coloring into the icing she decided she liked the pink shade much better.

We had a great time celebrating her special day.  This year she had a birthday party with her friends.  It was a great time and I still can’t believe how loud 6 little girls can be!  This is a picture of her friends, one of her best friends, Erika had to leave early and is not in the picture below.

For her birthday, Emma wanted the dog pillow pet and clothes, including knee high black boots with a small heel (harder to find than you would think).  She received lots of clothes and the pillow pet and I had fun buying earrings to match.

Its all about the bling…

Emma is full of life, LOVES to read and spend time with her friends.  Happy 8th Birthday, Baby Girl!  We love you.

Tradition

When I was pregnant with Mastin, someone that I worked with gave me a great idea.  Hallmark has many ornament series and we decided to start a series for Mastin and the year he was born, I bought the first ornament in the Snow Buddies series.  Each year, we buy the next ornament in the series.  By the time he is out on his own, I plan to give him the entire series for his own tree.

Of course, we continued the tradition with each child.  Chase has the Snowball and Tuxedo series and Emma started with a music box series but we changed a few years ago to the Fairy Messenger series.

Each Christmas the kids get excited to see what the ornament looks like for their series.  This year, I purchased a small tree for each of them to display their own ornaments.  It was fun to open up the boxes to see the ornaments over the past several  years and it has become a  very special tradition for our family.

Mastin and his 12 Snowbuddies

Chase and his 9 Snowball & Tuxedo

Emma and her 8 ornaments