Elise Birthday Party

So it's obvious that I'm awful at blogging.  I'm great at facebook.  I'm awesome at instagram.  I stink at blogging.  I really do wish it was easier to blog from my phone because honestly having a free minute to sit in front of an actual computer to write a blog is just a foreign concept.  Having a free minute. period. is a  foreign concept.  I'm always on the go....always doing some chore or chauffeuring or running some errand or nursing a baby or making a meal or I'm just plain to tired to think so I sit on the couch staring into outer space while the laundry piles up around me and Aidan makes some awful tornadic mess.  (My spell check is telling me TORNADIC is not a word, oh well.)

I really don't feel like life is all that interesting to blog about.  It's easier for me to capture a quick picture on instagram then to capture a whole story for the blog.  Weird.  The kids and I were looking through the blog the other day and they just love all the old pictures and stories and....  Well I suppose this blog is sort of like a family journal since I don't scrapbook anymore (quit that when Elise was a year old) and I don't have a real journal anymore. 

Soooo....Prepare for photo dump....

Elise turned 10 on December 10th.  What we call her "GOLDEN BIRTHDAY"  Golden birthdays are huge in our family and we always try to go allllll out on the party.  Elise's birthday is always a tricky one because it's right at Christmas time and we can never find a day to do a party when people can actually attend.  It's just hard to compete with holiday parties, recitals, church functions, Christmas shopping, you name it!!  We decided to hold off until January to have the party.  Then our whole family got sick and we tried to get back to the routine of school and....oh my gosh planning a party was insane.  This was supposed to be her GOLDEN BIRTHDAY and I totally shirked.  POOP!!!!!!!  It was approaching the end of January, so I decided to throw together a party in 3 days.  I allowed her to invite 3 friends to Cosmic Jump (no siblings, just her and her friends) and then back to our house for pizza, cake, music and dancing (family included).  It was PERFECT.  She had so much fun and she kept talking about it for days after.  SUCCESSSSSSS!!!