11th Birthday Celebrations

Emmy is turning 11. Holy Smokes! The pas 11 years sure flew by and I never imagined how proud I'd be of our almost middle schooler. I swear Emmy has the best of both me and Josh. She is strong and fearless, very smart and confident, is focused and determined, doesn't get caught up in gossip or trying to keep up with the Jones's, is kind, sensitive and thoughtful, funny and beautiful! She seriously amazes me everyday with her physical and emotional strength, her self awareness, communication skills and how she reads people and situations. She is so wise beyond her years and has such a good head on her shoulders I just know she is going to do amazing things. 

Last weekend we had an early bday celebration with all her bestest buddies - Riley, Kylee, Audrey and Luci. After much debate, we decided on rock and jump, Regents pizza and ice cream. It was fun to tag along in the background listening to the girls' chatter :) 

Monday was a holiday and we had NO SPORTS so drove out to the wild animal park (with everyone else in San Diego). It was a fun day to walk around together, see some animals and eat a bunch of junk food!

The crew

When they weren't jumping or Emmy wasn't doing back handsprings they played dodgeball and really held their own!

Training for America Ninja Warrior. Ha!

Creamisty ice cream is pretty cool

Gorillas!

Emmy actually took this. She thought it was so sweet :) 

Me and Owie and my favorite photo bomber 

Emmy and Ryan are so good with Owen 

Ryan loved the bats - they were so creepy. 

She may be 11 but she still LOVES stuffed animals. So we treated them all to a new "puppet". You just have to every once and a while - let them keep enjoying the little things :) 

Owen saw an exhibit and said - look its a lemur! Huh? Apparently he reads a book at school about a panda and a Lemur so of course he had to get his own :)

And well, when 2 get something, the 3rd gets one too :)