8 years already?

8 years ago I became a mother.  Everyone one gives you advice, but no one can tell you the adventure that really takes place in raising a child.  It has been one wild ride.  8 years and a lot of laughing and tears (on both our parts)!  I can't believe she is so big...well not big in the sense of tall

(my girls still squeezes into size 5)!

For her birthday she gave me a list of things she wanted to do for her party, and it changed every other day.  I convinced her to go with a party at home so she could invite MORE friends.  10 friends later we had an awesome girly birthday bash at home.

 10 girls and 2 siblings later the house was full of giggles and screams.

This is the crew that ran wild through the house!  All innocent can't you tell?

For her party we decorated GIANT cupcakes with colored frosting and sprinkles of every color.

Then we played a fun game of blindfolded chapstick.  Each girl took a chapstick and applied it to their neighbor..BLINDFOLDED.  What a funny sight to watch.  The girls had chapstick from their necks to their foreheads.

 Then came time to play musical nail polish.  Pass the nail polish around until the music stops..whoever the lucky...or unlucky person was holding that color was out and got to keep that color.  The colors green and yellow went flying across the room...can't imagine why those colors weren't wanted :)

Then came the opening of the presents.  WOW! what a fun scene..girls fighting over who was to be first as well as last.  She got everything from petshops, to art stuff.  What a great bunch of friends she has.  Then came more running wild through the house until it was time to go home.  It was so fun to put faces with names and meet some parents.

 Cousin Ella and Shantel

Shantel's other lifelong bud Abbie.

Happy Birthday Shantel