Eight is great, skate and stay up late.

 Lea's Eighth birthday was celebrated in fabulous fashion. She got family presents on the morning of her birthday. Dan got her a mini drum kit. Its not as torturous as it sounds.

Big smiles with two front teeth missing for our Great Eight year old.

Presents from Grandma JoAnn. Great gifts all round.

On Lea's actual birthday we went to Chuck E. Cheese with Aunt Teresa and Robert.

Lea with her Chuck E. Cheese swag.

How did Daddy get the sweets? Don't fill up, we're on our way to Mooya for dinner.

What a happy girl after Chuck E. Cheese on her birthday.

 After Lea's actual birthday we had a weekend party for her friends. Of course we can't just have a little party and call it done, oh no! We had a skate party and then the girls came back to the house for a spa party and a slumber party. Everyone made it through the night without incident thanks to an hour and a half of reading Gulliver's Travels (a book I thought boring enough to put anyone to sleep with its old language, but I was told be a few of the girls it was too exciting and made it hard to go to sleep).

Birthday girl with her new skates ready for guests.

Ready to skate.

Birthday girl gets a balloon hat (which mommy wore more than the birthday girl) and was the center of attention for a few skates. Including the Hokey Pokey!

Cupcakes with friends at the skate rink

The skate party was very much about the money tornado box! 

 

I'm not sure which one of us had more fun at the skate party!

Then it was back to the house for our spa party. Lea had a little book of spa treatments and made her list for us to follow. We made at least 5 from scratch beauty treatments with different stations for the girls to travel to in pairs.

The master beauty treatment list.

The skate cake.

The make up station where the pairs of girls got to make each other up.

More make up than maybe an eight year old should have.

The nail salon where I painted nails. With glitter thanks to Grandma JoAnn's great nail salon gift. It was a fantastic addtion. We also had a massage station with hot rocks and face and hands station with hand made scrubs. Also a "make your own pizza" station run by Daddy.

Ready for the sleepover part

This little prodigy could play "We will rock you" as soon as she sat down! Lea's best rif was a rim shot. She'd run over and say "Tell a joke, tell a joke!" and then Ba-dum-bum.

The next day swimming and lots of play before bringing the party to an end.