Thirteen and a teenager!

The fun, rhyme invite is done by Jim. I had a hard time finding a good skating photo of Emersyn. This photo is from Hong Kong when Karin and I took the kids across a couple islands to go ice skating.

Thursday night was the MS Band Concert, therefore, the party fun needed to be ready on Wednesday night. I made cupcakes for Emersyn to share at school and a cake for the party in the afternoon. The girls came home from school to do the fun part – the frosting and decorating.

The beater eaters!

Emersyn did all the decorating herself. She did a very nice job with the writing.

This year, I had Jim get streamers in America – a simple item that is expensive in China. The house was party ready for the teenagers.

Emersyn’s actual birthday is on Friday for a fun day at school. The MS students had field day…in the rain. Emersyn’s friend’s decorated her locker with a poster and candy!

I picked up the girls from school with the help of Faith’s driver. The girls came back to the house to change and put on their “neon” gear and load up on glow sticks. Emersyn and I ordered the glow sticks off Taobao. Taobao is the Chinese version of Amazon with better prices. Our first time using Taobao which is not easy as all the boxes are in Chinese.

I took the girls to the Mercedes-Benz arena. This is the same arena we saw the Adam Lambert concert in March. A full size ice rink is in the basement of the arena. The rink opened about two years ago – there is a whole mall and everything under the arena.

They had a blast. A few of the girls had not ice skated before so they were fun to watch.

Kaitlin

Eleri on a popcorn break.

At 7:15 the first session ended, we went back to the house for birthday fun – pizza, cake and ice cream. We purchased pj’s at Justice this summer for the sleepover birthday fun.

Anna, Daniela, Katilin, Ruth, Emersyn, Avery and Elyssa

Pizzas were ordered from our favorite place, La Casbah, across the street. The girls were all having fun and on sugar highs before we even got to cake and ice cream! Emersyn blew out all the candles in one blow!