Emma is TEN!

This is a bad picture of the invitation I made up for Emma's 10th birthday party. I used words with "TEN" in them. I thought I was pretty creative:) She LOVES to preTENd, so we planned a theater party. We didn't have the movie outside like originally planned, but we decorated the bonus room with a dropped ceiling of black crepe paper. We made a cute concessions stand where the girls could buy treats with their tickets. We decorated the kitchen area with black and gold balloons and movie themed decorations.



Emma is always wanting to play Twister, so as the girls were arriving, they played that for awhile. It got kinda crazy in there.



Emma decided to have chicken TENders, mac-n-cheese, and grapes for her b-day dinner. I made a "mud pie" for dessert. This is something my mom used to make every summer. It was one of my favorite desserts growing up.



After dinner, we played "Pass the Popcorn". The girls had fun doing this despite getting a little light-headed. The next game was "Please Whisper" which basically was the popular 'telephone' game with a movie theater twist. The third game was a movie guessing game. Each girl took a turn having the name of a movie on her forehead and the other girls gave clues for that girl to guess what it was. Did that make sense? I think all of the games were a success.



Emma received lots of nice gifts from her girlfriends... lots jewelry from Claire's, Nike bag and hat, Borders gift card, UNO spin game, coconut lotion, nail polishes, a cute shirt, and a scrapbook filled with pics of her and her best buddy. Grandparents sent much welcomed money to Emma. She is excited to spend it soon. We gave her a cute bathing suit, a soccer t-shirt, and a pink soccer ball. She will be playing soccer in the fall for the first time.

Chelsea and Emma had set up a tent in the backyard for the girls to play in. But during the games inside the house, I noticed that the sprinklers had turned on and had gotten half of the yard all wet. So when it was outside play time, the girls took the four-square ball out front and played in the driveway for awhile.

The theater opened at 8:30 and in came the girls to buy their snacks for the movie.







This peaceful scene only last for about a half an hour. The girls just couldn't sit still for long. They were back outside playing until the party ended at TEN o'clock.

I'm happy that Emma was happy. I love my girl!