Winter Party

As a reward for being an all-around awesome kid, we let Emma have a slumber party last night "just because". She had 6 girls over and they had a rockin' good time. We finally put the finishing touches on our stage since Santa bought a supercool karaoke machine. Doesn't it look fantastic!! (Nevermind that a certain someone might have asked me if we could install a pole...dream on homey.)
The girls were so well behaved and went the whole night without any drama that I am tempted to do it again if they do well on their standardized teasts this spring. Except I might make them sign a contract to actually GO TO SLEEP, which they failed to do entirely. I could not believe that they stayed up the entire night. I mean I know that it is the acutal goal of all sleepovers. I just can't believe all of them made it all night in 3rd grade. I distinctly remember my first all-nighter. I was in sixth grade. It was Jodi Culr's birthday party and we stayed up all night playing chinese jump rope. OMG, I miss chinese jump rope. I am going to get some rubberbands tomorrow and teach Emma how to make one and how to play!!! Anyway here are a couple of photos.

Hair, makeup and costumes.

Performing :)

After all of the girls were picked up, Emma still had some cleaning left to do in her room. After I finished with the kitchen, i headed up to help her. Here is how I found her:
I moved her into her bed and I actually had to go in and wake her up at 4 because she goes back to school tomorrow and still needed to be able to sleep tonight. So, farewell to another winter break. We had a great time and got lots of much-needed rest and family time :)