Joyful Celebrations

Joyful celebrations are all around us this time of year...we have celebrated 3 birthdays in the last month or so and one of them was a surprise sweet sixteen birthday party for my daughter, Janai. Here is her cake pictured above, its inscribed 'Reach for the Stars!" That is how we want our daughter to live her life. To dream and do her best in all things whatever God has planned for her. On her birthday her grandfather took her out on a lunchdate, and afterwards my husband and I took her to see Fireproof---it was all to distract her from what was really going on at home---a surprise party! And surprised she was for when she walked in the door and found the house fully loaded of loved ones she broke into tears----truly a joyous moment for us all.

As I said there have already been 3 birthdays (do I sound a little fatigued?) and now there is one more to go...my second daughter is turning eleven on Friday. We will be hosting a 'Christmas Doll Tea Party', and my daughter is absolutely giddy. It was great fun to go the store to gather up tea cups and plates as the girls are all dressing up in gloves, pearls and hats--you know all the things most girls love. We will even make little cakes for their dolls out of stacked oreos covered generously in frosting. So as you see, I will be a busy mom planning this for this party! I will report more later but in the meantime you can view my other daughter's tea party two years ago.

Any ideas you'd like to share will be warmly welcomed! Have a great week!