Elisabeth's 10th Birthday Celebrations

 Elisabeth turned 10 on August ninth, and she was ready to celebrate!

She asked to have five girls over to our house for an afternoon/evening. She planned some games to play with the goal of spending quality time with her closest friends. 

Elisabeth has such sweet friends. She (and I) are grateful for each of them. 

They played a few board games, and also just paired off into some imaginary play too. 

Elisabeth asked for Momoo's famous chocolate sheet cake for her birthday cake after pizza. 

To end the night, the kids all played outside. Elisabeth was insistent that they play Ghosts in the Graveyard. She even asked to have her party go later into the evening, so it would at least start to get dark before it ended. 

They also played Missionary Tag.

It was a special night for my girl!

The next night, she continued celebrating with her friend Kaydence. She asked to celebrate separately with Kaydence to get some quality time with her. 

Friday night she asked for Cane's for dinner and then off to bowling. 

Kaydence spent the night, and the next morning, I took them out for a smoothie treat. 

We joined back up with the rest of our families that evening for dinner. So fun!

The celebrations weren't over yet. The day before her birthday, we had our family celebration. On her birthday, she got to pick the meals for the day.

For lunch, she asked for nachos. 

And we all went to Freddys for dinner. 

Papa Joe brought her a Nothing Bundt Cake, and she ate it for breakfast on the morning of her birthday. 

Right after breakfast, we hit the road to drive to Iowa, so she could celebrate with her cousins. What a special birthday! When we were scheduling our weekend visit for the summer, Elisabeth was adamant that she wanted to spend her birthday with her cousins. 

Amelia's birthday is only a few days before Elisabeth's so we had a joint celebration. Auntie Anna was so kind to make two birthday cakes for each of the girls.