Sissy Turns 10!

Wow, she is getting to be so .......

Anyway, we had a party and invited our homeschool friends. This is a great benefit of staying home, you don't have to always have your parties on the weekends.

So we invited her friends and made all the plans and didn't tell Sissy. It was supposed to be a surprise. I suggested that we have a play date so she wouldn't suspect when people started to come.

It turns out that she is just as bad as I am at ruining surprises. She suggested that we invites all of her homeschool friends and make it her party instead... oh well. I had been wondering how I was going to pick up the cake without her seeing it (a draw back to having your kids with you all of the time).

Most of the kids came and they had a great time. Sissy had made a tray of cookies and brownies to share. We had hotdogs, mac & cheese and pasta. Of course we had ice-cream and cake.

I had originally said no gifts but family doesn't allow parties with no gifts so she had plenty of those to open. Here she is with her most favorite store bought toy.... Calico Critters. She has been wanting them for 2 years but hadn't gotten any until today. Now she has both the dog family and the cat family.

After all of the gifts were done the small children went out to play on the swings and the older children opened up the Apples To Apples game that Daddy brought home the other day. They said they had a blast with the game and so did I.

Thank you to all of our friends and family that came or sent gifts and cards. Sissy had a wonderful day and says "Thank you very much".