The Farnsworth Family: Emily's 7th Birthday

Happy Birthday Emily! I can't believe you are 7 years old!

Emily is getting so big! She is an amazing daughter and very helpful around the house. She loves playing with her brothers even when they want to play something other than dolls. Emily loves to read and is the top reader in her class. She also loves playing the piano. She is learning a lot of new songs on the piano and getting more and more confident. Emily likes going to school and is loving first grade. Her good friends are Azleigh, Jadaci, and Carson. She is always kind and friendly to everyone she sees and always has a smile. Her favorite things to do are play with her doll, Kit, and ride her bike. She also likes running and enjoys races.

Tyrel's baptism and Grandma Morwood's birthday were the weekend before Emily's birthday so we decided to do a little BBQ/Party down in St. George with our family to celebrate her birthday.

We did it on September 25th which is also Jessica's birthday so we had a double party for Emily and Jess. I'm glad we did too because Danny was working out of town so Jess was home alone. I am glad we decided to party with her. Happy 26th Birthday Jess!

We went to a park in Washington and let the kids have a blast in the splash pad while the adults visited and barbecued hot dogs. It was fun to be with everyone and see each other again.

Emily loved all of the presents she received from her family. She was so happy to play with her cousins again especially Brielle. These two have missed each other and have now decided to be pen pals. I think that is a great idea.

When we got home from a fun weekend visiting family, the rest of the partying began.

First, you have to get new birthday clothes to wear to school on your birthday! Emily loved this outfit especially because there was a matching outfit for Kit too.

At school, Emily was queen for the day.

We were able to come to school and watch as she presented her "Birthday Bag." Which is like Show and Tell. She brought three things that told about herself. She showed her class her Science Fair Trophy, her mini Kit doll, and her camera. Then the class sang "Happy Birthday" to her and she was so excited.

After school, we had a really fun birthday party with all of her friends.

Emily wanted a Tea Party birthday party so we had a blast decorating and making up games to go along with that theme.

First, while all of her friends were arriving, the kids had fun decorating party hats as well as their very own tea cup. All of the kids were very unique in their decorating and designing. Some of the girls really got into it while the boys just put on a few stickers and called it good.

Emily received so many nice presents from her friends. She loved all of the arts and crafts kits and has been working on them ever since. Carson made her a birthday card that was a picture of him and Emily getting married. He was so proud and Emily graciously (and kind of embarrassed) said thank you. So the story with this is that Carson and Emily walk home from school together everyday. They are also good friends and Carson and his family live across the street from us. One day while walking home, Carson asked Emily if she would marry him. Emily said she didn't know what to say so she just said, "I don't know." Ever since then, Carson asks her everyday if she will marry him when they get older and everyday Emily says she doesn't know. Being the great parents that we are, when she told us this story we both laughed our heads off. Emily just glared at us and said it wasn't funny! We told her to tell him she wasn't old enough to get married and her parents said she couldn't get married. She told him this but every once in a while he still asks her to marry him. He has even told our other neighbors and their primary teacher that he is going to marry Emily someday. Don't you just love 6 year olds! Poor Emily!

Anyway, back to the birthday party... So Emily got a lot of nice gifts. After presents it was time for games. We played some fun relay races. First the kids had to balance a cup of water on their heads and race to the end of the yard and pour the water into the teapot. The first team to fill their teapot won. This was funny to see the kids try to balance the water without getting wet. Needless to say there were a few wet heads. The next relay was similar to the egg and spoon race but we used sugar cubes instead. The kids had to balance their sugar cubes on their spoon and carry them to the end of the yard and fill their tea cup with sugar. The first tea cup full of sugar cubes won. The kids had so much fun working together.

Our next game was Pin the Tea Cup Under the Tea Pot. The kids were each given a tea cup and had to get it as close to the tea pot as they could.

The only thing Emily specifically requested at her party was a pinata. I hate spending a lot of money on pinatas because they are only going to last 5 minutes. So luckily I found this pinata at the dollar store and filled it with candy and toys. The kids all had so much fun hitting that pinata until finally Alex broke it and the candy spilled out. Then it was a mad dash to gather as much as they could.

The grand finale of the birthday party was the much anticipated Tea Party!

Here are all of the party guests showing off their proper etiquette and their awesome teacups they decorated. From left to right is: Emily, Azleigh Borges, Colby, Callie, Logan, Katie Halsem, Alex Checketts, Carson Halligan, and Izzy Swan.

This year, instead of a cake, cupcakes seemed more appropriate for a tea party. So Emily blew out her #7 candle on a special pink, purple, and white camouflaged cupcake with flower sprinkles.

We had so much finger food/treats for the tea party that the kids were getting really high on sugar! We ate cupcakes, dipped marshmallows, frosted animal cookies, mini M&M cookies, and (to add some healthy food in there) apples and watermelon slices shaped like flowers. Oh and of course raspberry lemonade and water for the "tea." The kids loved the food especially the watermelon.

The guests enjoyed practicing their proper etiquette at the party by raising their little finger when they drank. They were even saying please and thank you. It was really quite funny how exaggerated they got especially the boys. After they had eaten we let them run around and play on the playground while they waited for their parents to come. It was a really fun party and Emily loved every minute.

For her big present this year, we got Emily a tent and a nice flashlight. She has been wanting these things ever since we went camping this summer. After the party we set it up.

The tent was actually bigger than we thought so it will be one that she can use for years. Emily didn't want to put it down so it is still set up in her room. It pretty much takes up her whole room but she doesn't seem to care.

When all of the friends had gone home, we let Emily chose what she wanted for dinner. She chose her favorite place, Pizza Pie Cafe!