Emily's 10th Birthday

We had a blast of a 3 day Holiday/Birthday weekend!  The kids were out of school Friday so I took off work. We scheduled her party for Saturday and had a few kids stay overnight.  I think we had about 35 people at the party and 6 girls spent the night with us. 3 of the girls are in Emily's class at school and the other 3 were siblings of one of the girls in her class.  Which ironically made 10 people overnight in the house for her 10th birthday!  We had BBQ and hotdogs and thankfully the weather was warm enough to send all the kids out on front porch for eating and all the guys seemed to stay out in the yard at the fire.  Even so we had a crowd of people stuffed in the house but it was worth it.   It made it hard to get around to spending time with everyone, but that is always the case when you have that many people around. 

The after party didn't end until 2 am when we finally got the 8 girls (ranging from 1st to 7th grade) to get calmed down enough to go to bed.  Brandon had told them that the Sasquach was outside and they had this thing where they kept running to the basement and screaming as they looked out into the blackness of the back yard.  The 7th grader got a creative idea to talk Julia into letting her borrow her camera phone to  take a picture so she tricked the younger ones and went and took a picture off the internet to use for scaring them.  So here it was 1 am and all these girls thought this thing was in the back yard.  I was thinking "this is just great-I'm trying to get them calmed down and Brandon is getting them riled up"  The 4 Bisson family girls are all about horror and scary stuff and mine are ok too, but I was worried about the other 2 girls and I eventually had to let them in on the internet picture part of the story.  So we all went to bed by 2 am or so and they were up between 8 and 8:30 am. YAY!  Haha!  But here again thank goodness the weather was good because by 10 am they were ready to go outside.  We went outside and did face painting and color hair spraying and they wanted to go see the animals so we walked over to the shop.  We fed the animals about 20 loaves of old bread and the kids got to see and feed the turkeys, goats, pigs, chickens, and horse.  Brandon ended up taking them down in the pasture to see a goat skeleton, he took them to the hay barn to gather grubs to go take to the chickens and then he went on a nature walk in the woods down by the creek.  It was like watching a teacher with his students-too cute!  They followed him around and listened to what he had to say.  Parents don't realize when they send there kids here that you will get science and nature lessons! 

All the parent were here by 12:30 to pick up their girls and by 1:30 we all were asleep here at the Burnette house.  The kids had a good 3 hour nap, I got 2 hours, and Brandon nodded off watching TV.  We decided it would be better to go get naps than to go out and go to Morrow Mountain or Dan Nicholas Park since we were all exhausted.  When we got our naps in we took Emily to her favorite restaurant, Sogos.  Then we took her to Wal-Mart and to Target to find some accessories for her Kindle that she got for her birthday.  Tomorrow is a big day too.  I am taking her to the Thompson Square and Eli Young Band concert tomorrow night and Brandon had to plan a movie night with Abigail.  They are going to go see Puss in Boots together that way she won't fill left out.  I had told Emily it was a standing room only concert (not a seated ticket venue) and Abigail kept telling Emily that she was going to a movie theater that had seats and Emily was going to have to stand all night.  It was too funny!  I have to say it has been one great weekend around here!  I am so thankful to have friends that took time to come celebrate with us. 

The Bisson sisters-what a handful!