Emilyn's Birthday Cake

Emiyn decided that she wanted a Littlest Pet Shop cake. We have gone with Walmart or Smiths making them over the past couple of years. But this year, I
decided that I could make my own. I looked at how they would make it at the store and did it almost the same way at half the cost. It was a pretty simple cake and I made a few mistakes :) but Emilyn still liked it. The pictures with her blowing out the candles shows that she looks a lot like Jena (no wonder everyone thinks they are twins when we go shopping!! Even Jena thought it looked like her :) Emilyn was determined that she was going to put the candles in her cake - so I let her do it but I told her where to put them first!! While we were singing Happy Birthday to her - she wanted us to point to her everytime we said "you" and "Emilyn." It was pretty funny. She knew that it was her DAY!! After we had cake she said it was time for a Slumber Party -hee hee - so we put on Jungle Book for her. :)

EMILYN'S 5th BIRTHDAY

Yesterday we celebrated Emilyn's 5th Birthday. I can't believe that she is 5 already. It has gone by too fast!! Lance and I stayed up and decorated the house (it has been a tradition that Lance has always liked to do and the girls really LOVE it). I had also told Lance that it would be hard for Emilyn to look at her presents all day and not get to open them until he came home. So Lance went in late to work so she could open them when she got up. She loved all the things she got for her birthday and getting to talk on the phone to her aunts, uncles and grandparents :) (she has become quite the social bug!) Lance and I took her out to lunch for her birthday. She wanted to go to China Isle. When we got there - the people that run that restaurant wanted to know where Jena was. Since we are regulars, they know us pretty well :). Emilyn had to tell them it was her birthday today and that she was 5 years old now. It was cute.