Weekend Plans

Friday night was Emma's BIG birthday party. I must say that I love my kids parties. I do, I know I should not live thru my children and all that mess, but come party time, I do for them what I would love to have done for me. It never happens that way, but I still have hope that maybe one day it will happen!

So anyway, it was a fabulous evening. Perfect weather, tons of friends, and a lot of fun. I know you want to see pictures, but um, I have none to speak of right now! I know, but my camera was not working and so I borrowed one from my friend Julia. So she has all of the pictures right now, and will be handing them over tomorrow. So I will post all of them when I get them.

We had a butterfly party for Ms. Emma. She wanted it to be a butterfly fairy princess party.....big wishes to fill. I think we did pretty good, except for the fairy princess part. We had the butterfly thing nailed!

A little history for all of you readers new to my life. I do not bake well. I love to cook, but baking is not my thing, so I try to make my kids cakes every year, and FAIL every time. This year I started early. I made 2 nine inch round cakes that were going to be atop 2 ten inch square cakes. I made chocolate candy hearts to go on the cake for decorations, and then Emma and I painted nylon butterflies to have on her cake too. We used pipe cleaners to have them flying over the top of the cake. OK, so now I go to assemble my wonderful cake creation and everything is great. I am icing the mess out of it, and turn to do something else in the kitchen (multitasking at its best) and I turn to admire my cake when I see that the whole thing had slid off and crumbled on the table. I could not blame the girls bc they were outside at the time. This was at 4pm, and the party was at 6:30pm, so I was a little freaked. I usually burn the cake on party day, so I made my usual call to Kroger on Salem for a cake, but they did not have what I needed. In a panic, and tears I called Stephanie and told her about my mishap......By 4:30pm her husband brought me a homemade cake! In the mean time I called Wal-Mart and had them ice a cake for me. We used all of our decorations and made the CAKES our own. Steph's cake had the butterflies flying on it, with 6 sparklers on it. The store bought cake had a Mariposa doll on top and a #6 sparkler on it. It turned out great, but for about 30 minutes I wanted to call the party off.
Emma had a blast, she loved every minute of it. We had some surprises that evening too. Allison Horis drove 2 hours to come to the party(Erin's roommate in college)and then she drove home afterwards. I love the fact that Emma has so many friends that love her, and support her in her many journeys in life. We have been lucky as a family to share so many of our milestones with friends and family.
Kevin and Kimberly were here too, which was a first for Kevin. He has never been to a Tucker birthday party before, and I think he had a good time.

All in all, it was a successful party, with lots of wonderful memories that we will cherish until the next party. HAHA
I promise I will add pictures of the party, when I get them.