Celebrating Ellie

We spent this past weekend celebrating our sweet 8 year old! On Saturday we had her birthday party. She wanted an Alice in Wonderland party and so we made a few crafts, had a tea(lemonade) party, and watched Alice in Wonderland. She had a really sweet little group of friends over and we all had a great time! 

Such sweet friends! Also one of the crafts we did was the "Mad Hatter hats" (headbands) they are wearing. They were really easy and turned out so cute!

Shrinky Dink teapots

Poor JP. Paul had to leave right before the party and JP took his plate of food into the room where the girls were eating and decided he would rather eat alone in the kitchen! Sitting at the table with 12 girls was just more than he could handle!

Due to a busy day on Sunday we let Ellie pick a place to go to eat on Saturday instead of doing it on Sunday. She wanted Which Which but they apparently close early during the summer so we headed to Chick-fil-A instead. 

On Sunday, Ellie's actual birthday, Paul took her and the little ones to Which Which after church and then Ellie chose to go to Edventure! Emmie and I met them there after City Meet. The kids all had a great time at Edventure, as always.

After Edventure we came home and let Ellie open presents. She had some cards to open, including one from her baby cousin...she was super excited about Katherine's "drawing", and presents from her siblings, Abby and her family, and Paul and me.

card from Katherine

Ellie has been asking for a new American Girl doll for about a year. She was THRILLED with her new doll, Rebecca.

After opening her presents she played with them while I took Ruthie to a friend's birthday party. While we were gone Paul also took the kids on a bike ride as this was one of Ellie's birthday day requests. That evening, after dinner, we went to Sonic for Ellie's special birthday dessert.

After the littles went to bed Ellie got to stay up and hang out with Paul and me. Usually we play games and this year she asked if Emmie could stay up with her. Ellie had such a great time playing Meme with Paul and me and Emmie and we enjoyed some time with our biggest girls.