Krista's 10th Birthday Party!!

On Saturday we celebrated Krista Marie's TENTH birthday!!! She won't actually be turning 10 until the 19th, but with her First Communion coming up, we decided to celebrate it early. It was a HUGE HIT! Krista had so much fun with her friends! Krista invited 7 friends and only one couldn't make it. We had initally planned on celebrating at the local mini-golf course, but at the last minute we decided to hold it at home and wait for a warmer day to play golf (right now we're planning on the 27th of June for part II of the party). Part I was GREAT! The kids played games (hide and seek, musical chairs etc), we had a drawing contest and made a cupcake factory for the kids. They had so much fun decorating their cupcakes with the colored frosting and toppings. This year I went all out and tried to be creative for Krista's birthday cakes. She always LOVES and looks forward to my cake creations so each year the bar is raised higher and higher. Mommy's score this year? A perfect 10!! I'll attach photos of the cakes below. I made a castle cake and also a monkey this year. Both were devoured and praised by the kiddies :) After the party was over Krista had 2 guests stay on for a sleep-over party. There was a local village "tarte-flambee" evening (like creamy pizza) so Toomas took the girls and Erik there for an outing. They returned at about 10 pm after having had so much fun out on the town...I thought they would have been tired out from that but THEY WERE UP UNTIL 3 a.m.! Pretty tiring for me, but a girl only turns 10 once, right!

The plan for the upcoming fun this month: June 10th, Toomas' birthday, June 19th- Krista's REAL 10th Birthday, June 20th Krista's end of the year Gymnastics party and show, June 21st Krista's First Communion, June 27th Krista's Mini-Golf party!!! WOW, fun times ahead...Tomorrow Evan goes in for his 3rd round of vaccines (NO FUN!) I'll update his stats tomorrow. So much has been going on but I HAVE been taking pictures and making mental blogs! I'm sure you'll be in for a swarm of upcoming posts soon (including Mother's Day yesterday. We only celebrate the French one now so it was my big day!)

Here are the shots of the birthday party fun! Enjoy :)