Birthday Party #1

All of our family members are so busy right now, there was no way for everyone to get together for one birthday party. So, we decided to have a few "mini-parties". One with my family, one with her friends, and one with his family. We 3 also spent a little "alone" time.

The first get-to-gether was with my family. My sisters, nieces, and mother & her husband all got together at the house to eat pizza & cup-cakes. Anne Marie helped make her cupcakes for our gathering. I made 24 cupcakes (12 for family & 12 for her friend party) but I wanted to decorate the ones for her friends different, so I let her sprinkle the 12 for family w/ what ever we had in the stash. I thought they turned out cute! She had alot of fun & picked peperoni pizza as her food of choice that night.

So, be prepared --- if you don't feel like going through all the birthday pictures from 4 birthday parties ... skip the blog this week, but if you feel like hanging on, get ready for the "mega-week-of-birthday-posts".

Proud of her decorating skills!

Anne Marie & cousin Naomi ready for pizza!

"Big" cousin Stephanie showing the girls her video game -- and something just made them crack-up --- don't know what, but it must have been very funny!!

My birthday girl.

Making her wish.

Yum! Caramel Cupcakes!!