The Birkeland Family Blog

Emmi's 4th birthday was a Pajama and Pancake Party!  We had a few of her friends come over in the morning dressed in their pajamas for a pancake breakfast.  The girls had fun.  They loved the blueberry pancakes, but the biggest hit was Emmi's "giant sweet roll" cake.  We stuck candles in the sweet roll and sang happy birthday.  The girls ate up every last bite.  We played some games and the biggest hit was musical pillows.  We opened gifts, the girls played a bit and then went home.  By 10:30 all the girls had gone home with their sippy cereal bowl as a party favor and for the rest of the day Emmi was begging for a friend to come over to play.  She seemed to forget that she just had a birthday party that morning.   So....word of advice to mom's planning a birthday party.  Don't do a morning birthday.  All the fun is over by mid morning and the rest of the day you will hear them whine for more!  ...

So this Easter I failed miserably!  I didn't even get a picture of Emmi and Jack together in their easter clothes. In fact Jack never stepped foot in his outfit.  We did manage to get a picture of Emmi in her adorble dress that Grammy Jill found her.  Our church is at 1:00 and by that hour Jack had completely gone ape, along with all of us.  Brian stayed home to nap Jack and Emmi and I got ready and went.  We did it and enjoyed the spiritual uplift to be reminded of our Savior and his life! We did manage to dye easter eggs the night before and to have a hunt when the kids woke up.  Before the kids went to bed Emmi put lettuce leaves down the front sidewalk to lure the easter bunny in.  When they woke up they had easter baskets filled with toys and candy hidden for a hunt.  Emmi was in heaven.  It is her favorite game to go and find hidden thing...