Emery's 4th Birthday Party-- Belle style!

For Emery's 4th Birthday party we decided theme it around Belle, from Beauty and the Beast.  We invited 5 of Emery's closest friends and had a small party Sunday (her actual birthday) from 2-4 in the afternoon.  It was low key and the girls had a blast.

Here was her invitation:

And then this was attached to the back:

I had a gold tablecloth that we used, Emery set out our fancy beaded placemats and we stuck some fake roses in a row for the centerpiece....and that was about all we did to decorate the table!

As the party favor I sewed little "book bags" for all the girls, since Belle loves to read.  They aren't perfect but for mostly winging the pattern was really happy with how they came out!

On the table was their craft-- a magic mirror that they could decorate with fancy jewels.  The oval is cardboard covered in metallic wrapping paper, and then I cut all the glitter paper out with my silhouette which made it so easy.  I put their first initial on the back so they wouldn't get mixed up.

Here is a picture of Em's magic mirror once she finished!

We played "pin the petal on the rose" as our game.

Time to open presents... Emery got SO many awesome books and unbelievably no repeats!  Perfect presents for our little book worm!

We served cake, fruit & caramel dip (courtesy of Chick-fil-A), fruit snacks, and cheese and crackers... EASY!

I tried to make the icing look like little roses... success!

Singing to our girl!

And a blurry but documentary shot of all the girls who came! (Alaina, Merrin, Hailey, Em, Nora and Katherine)

Emery and I made a two tiered cake.. lemon and strawberry together YUM!

We let the girls dress up, dance around and then thankfully the weather outside was AMAZING so we played outside the rest of the time.  A really fun day!

Love our sweet girl!

Such a big 4 year old!

Boone Snow!

We had planned to meet Kyle's whole family up in Boone in February for a little ski trip, but the weather was going to be so cold we rescheduled.  Thankfully, we did reschedule as the pipes at the cabin had frozen and it was a total mess (quite literally) throughout the weekend trying to fix it.  We did have fun enjoying the beautiful snow up there... I'm so grateful for the cabin and the time our family gets to spend up there!

Love Will's hat from Jeneane!

Fun sledding Saturday morning in the driveway:

And Sunday once all the snow was melting, Kyle took Em and Will sledding on the way out of town :)

Huntersville Snow!

We had so much fun playing in the snow we had here in February!  Two separate times we were blessed with some beautiful snow that made for a lot of fun with the kiddos, especially Emery.  The first time was more ice than snow, which worked great for sledding.  Kyle worked from home in the morning, so while Will was napping and Kyle was on a conference call-- Emery and I ventured out to sled down one of our neighborhood roads.  Tyson had a blast running along side of us, too.

Will's first time seeing snow!

Emery wanted to play in the snow all day, so she ventured outside to play and Will and I stayed inside  with the window open :)

Fun with the slide:

And bringing it inside to play with too:

The next time it snowed, it was super heavy snow which was so pretty, and made for perfect snowmen!  Kyle was able to stay at home all day too which was super fun.  He makes the best snowman and walked around the golf course with Em to sled some!