Party After Party and Christmas Tree Chopping

What a whirlwind it's been around here since Thanksgiving. Last week Emma turned the big 4 and already she's talking about turning 5. Today when I was doing her hair, she wanted to see the back so I put the mirror up to the back of her head and she said "I look like 5". I suppose you look older from the back??? We celebrated Sunday with Emma's birthday party. Her Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and a close friend, Olivia, all came for the celebration. Her theme was "Go Diego Go". She is such the tom-boy. Emma was off from school for her actual birthday and Kevin and I took off too and we went to lunch and the movies to see Bolt. On Emma's day back to school, we took pretzels in to school for her birthday snack.

Last night we enjoyed the Third Annual Christmas Party at Jen and Dan's house. It's always nice to spend time with friends old and new and a special visit from the man in red himself.

We ended the weekend today with Kevin and Emma going to chop down the Christmas tree for this year. I stayed home and finished the Christmas cards and some wrapping. Kevin said that Emma loved every minute of it. The first tree she picked out was about 15 feet tall and the second one was about 2 feet tall, then she found the perfect one. Kevin said she got all into it, looking under the branches to make sure the trunk was straight and that the top has a branch that will hold our Angel. It sure has been a busy couple weeks but memories that will last a lifetime.