Birthday Breakfast

 This year, we dialed it back a bit for Emily's birthday party.  Her baptism was the biggest focus and so  we kept it simple with a birthday breakfast!  We invited her closest friends from school and picked them up bright and early.  We told the girls to come in their pjs and to come hungry! 

Now, true to form, there was not a bowl of cereal in sight. (Emily has this irrational fear of all cereal, Cheerios in particular, if you remember...)  We did serve up all her of breakfast favorites:  french toast, bacon, sausage, strawberries, bananas, and juice.  And, rather than cake, we made Emily's favorite chocolate chip muffins (which, as far as I'm concerned, are a messier equal to cupcakes).

Christian enjoyed all of the breakfast yummies

As did our pickiest eater yet, Kari!  (French toast is the ONLY food that all three of the kids will eat.)

Juliana, not quite ready for french toast, had fun watching all of the commotion (and the extra attention from the little girls!)

After breakfast, we let the girls all go downstairs and just play for a bit while we cleaned up(they dressed up and played "pirate princesses" with Kari).  Then, they came back up, Emily opened her gifts, and Cubby showed everyone how to play "Apples to Apples."

Even though it was simple, it was a lot of fun!  Oh, and Cubby said the funniest thing he heard all weekend was when he was driving and picking up Emily's friends and the three little girls were all singing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together" at the top of their lungs.

Good stuff.