Emily just celebrated her 11th birthday!! There is no way that we have a tween in our house now!
Emily is such a good girl. She is always trying to do her best and wants to please everyone. Emily is always concerned with things that are happening and wants to keep everyone safe. She is aware of others needs and is willing to include everyone. Her teacher at school recently told me that she is always so kind and helpful to everyone in her class and is a great example to others. I totally agree. She loves playing with Charlotte and always wants to play with the boys as well. There are times when her tween attitude comes out and we have to step back and tell her to chill. She also likes to fight with her brothers and they fight with her as well. But I think all siblings do that. She recently expressed that she is now old enough to have her own room and wants to move downstairs to have her own space. This was a big step because she used to be afraid to even go downstairs alone. So we will be working on that move soon.
For her birthday party, Emily wanted a Spa Party. Mostly she just wanted her and her friends to paint their nails together. Then we expanded to do the whole spa experience.
For the spa themed cake, I made a cake that looked like a bottle of nail polish. I think it turned out really cute and Emily loved it!
Before the party, Emily helped plan the whole thing. She picked out the activities, who to invite, and how we were going to do it. She even talked to our friend, Shaylyn Maxfield, and asked her to come and do every one's nails. I put the finishing touches on the food preparation and we were all set.
Emily wanted healthy snacks because we were at a spa. We had fruits, vegetables, pretzels and popcorn. Then to add to some sweetness, we made these cute little nail polish marshmallows. (They were pure sugar.) We set the room up for facials, manicures, and pedicures and then waited for the guests to arrive.
When everyone arrived, we started the party off by making our own bath bombs. The girls liked stirring the powder around and forming it into balls. I had never made bath bombs before so I was hoping they would work out. Luckily Callie, one of Emily's friends, was a pro at making bath bombs so she walked us through and told me we were doing it right. I was glad she was there to help. One thing we did learn though is that Jasmine scented essential oils have a very strong smell. Our noses were all going crazy. It smelled really good but really strong. As soon as the boys smelled these bath bombs they were begging us to let them go play with friends. They did not want to be in the same house with all these girls and their smelly perfumes. We told them to go ahead and go. I wouldn't let Russell leave even though he wanted to as well. He was the designated photographer and runner. Anyway, we put the powder into the molds and let them set up during the rest of the party. At the end, the girls were able to take them home.
Next we moved on to facials. Each girl was given a little bit of a homemade avocado, honey, and yogurt face mask to use as a cleanse for their skin. This was probably the funniest thing to watch. The girls were such good sports and had a blast rubbing this stuff all over their faces. Some of them did not like the texture at all and one almost gagged but they all put it on. They could not stop laughing at each other when they saw how funny they looked. Everyone had green skin but huge smiles.
Then it was time for the pedicures.
While they sat and relaxed, they soaked their feet in warm water. We could not forget the cucumbers on their eyes. It was all part of the relaxation and facial. This was also a funny thing to watch because they were trying so hard to balance the cucumbers on their eyes so that they would stay in place.
Shaylyn was awesome enough to come over and bring all of her nail supplies and do the girls' nails. She gave all the girls manicures and even used her shellac nail polish to make it last longer. I was so glad to have her help; she was a lifesaver! While she did everybody's fingernails, I worked on painting their toenails. The toenails were not as pretty as the fingernails but the girls didn't seem to mind.
As we waited for our toenails to dry, we ate the snacks.
These girls can definitely eat and talk! They liked everything except the carrots... While they ate, Emily opened her presents.
It seemed like everything she received was related to girly smelly-good stuff. She got nail polish, a bath bomb kit, body wash and lotion, and other fun things. She also got some decor for her new room from us. She has been begging us to go to Hobby Lobby to look at ways to decorate her room and she picked out some pretty cute things.
When the presents were open, we brought out the cake.
We all sang "Happy Birthday" and she blew out the candles. I think the girls were full from the spa snacks because some of them did not want cake. They were all so happy for Emily on her birthday though. Some of them did not want to go home when their parents came to get them. We extended the party for another half hour so that they could keep playing. It was so much fun.
Everybody's nails turned out so good and they were all excited to wear the funny pedicure flip flops home. It was such a great party. I am so glad the girls had fun and it was a hit.
Shaylyn was so awesome to come and help. She loves Emily and told us she would do anything for her especially come help her celebrate her birthday! We are so glad Shaylyn is our friend.
The next day, Emily wanted to go out to eat for her birthday. She really wanted to go to Angie's and Clean The Sink. So that is what we did.
We have always heard about people Cleaning the Sink at Angie's and we knew it would be big but we had no idea it would be this big! That thing was huge!!! Even with all six of us, we could only eat less than half of it. We tried to call in Calen and Rochelle in as reinforcements but they were not feeling well. We tried and we tried to eat more but we just could not do it. Finally we had to give up and get to-go bowls to take it home. We felt like failures but we just couldn't eat another bite. We filled six to-go bowl full of ice cream just to give you an idea of how much was left. So now we have ice cream for another day. (That is if we can ever look at ice cream the same again.) It was such a fun thing to do as a family though. The kids had a blast and their eyes were so huge as they looked at all that ice cream. We thought we would just take our defeat and go home but Logan was insistent that we needed a bumper sticker. I told him we couldn't get one because we hadn't finished the sink. He was not getting it and wanted the sticker. The cashier was nice enough to give us the sticker even though we didn't finish. Logan was so happy. We are framing that sticker because we did our best to get it! The bumper sticker says, "I Cleaned the Sink at Angie's!" And yes we did. It might have taken us a few days but it did get emptied.
Well I don't think we will eat ice cream again anytime soon but it was fun to try. We might do it again when the kids are older maybe in like 7 years...
Happy Birthday Emily!!!
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