Emily turned 7 and we celebrated over and over again!

Emily chose a puppy party theme for her 7th birthday.  It was pretty easy to please her.  We had all of her friends bring a puppy or other favorite stuffed buddy.  The girls sat down and made their dogs some beaded jewelry.  Emily had planned a game where each girl takes a turn hiding a little puppy and then the group finds it, she wanted to play until everyone won! This also morphed into a game of hid and seek.  We stopped to open presents, spin the bottle style.  You place a bottle in the middle of the group, Em spins and if the bottle points to you, she opens your present.

 

Em actually had three parties.  She invited 7 friends, three couldn't make it to her party.  We decided to have them over a couple days early for a pre-party play-date.  Em still wanted to have cupcakes and play games, so essentially it was party #1.  Saturday on her birthday four other friends joined us for party #2.  Party #3 happened on Sunday with the grams, gramps, aunts, uncles and cousins!

 

 Emily made a dog house

 She received tons of gifts!  It took her a couple days to write thank-you's.  She is one lucky girl!

 Trying not to peek

 Emily made the doggy cupcakes, this was the day before.  Turns out you should not put tootsie rolls out on frosting 12 hours early.  They cannot handle the moisture!

 Emily knew she was getting this Emily doll from Grandma Barb for her birthday, but she still had the best glow, I can't believe it face!

Still can't get over the fact that she can read all of these.  In fact, the Ramona series is finished, at the time I type this up.