Emma's half birthday...

Since yesterday was Emma's half birthday, I figured I should finally post about her birthday party. 6 months late is better than never right? Part of the reason I didn't post her birthday earlier was because we lost all of the pics and video of her party. I am pretty sad about that.

Ben and I decided that there are a few birthday's that are milestones, and on those birthday's we are going to throw extra big parties for our kids. Those years are 5, 8, 12, 16, and of course 18. I guess if theya re still with us, we will do one for 21 too. Since this was a milestone year for Emma, we went all out.

Ben found and we bought a Train bounce house. I was just a little bit more to buy one than to rent one for the day and now we have it for our other kids too. She LOVED it. We invited all of the kids from her primary class and some of the kids from her preschool class. Both boys and girls were on the invite list, but it turned out that only girls were able to come...which was fine.

My mom was here visiting and she helped me make a castle cake. It was awesome! I lost the pics of it, so I recreated it for the first day of school. I took more time on the one for her birthday, and it looked better than this one, but you get the general idea. We also had a Pinata and she was very excited about that. We had a craft too. Each of the girls got to make a princess crown with their name on it. Overall, she had a great day and it turned out really great. I'm glad we made this day special for her and even though we don't have pics of it, I am really happy that my big girl is now 5.