Ella's Birthday Party

We celebrated Ella's 6th birthday at the paint your own pottery place downtown. We had lots of fun and I don't even think we ruined anything!!!

Miss Ella is way into Hello Kitty this year... we even got her some blingy Hello Kitty earrings.

I think Ella picked two or three different things before she finally settled on a puppy holding a bone in his mouth.

Jack is soooo ready to paint...

But he had to settle for "helping" Ella.

So after a few minutes of painting (pictures below), we took a break and sang to the birthday girl and ate some cake!

Do you see that adorable little blond guy next to Ella? I want you to pay particular attention to that sweet little boy in this sequence of pictures.

He sooo wanted to help Ella blow out the candles...

but his big sister moves in from behind --- you can't even see sweet Olivia back there -- just her hands over sweet Josh's mouth!!!

She's got him now...

Or maybe not...

yes... she's got him...

and then he decides to fight back ---

Omylands! I was watching this all take place - Ella didn't even notice and spit enough 6 year old spit on the cake to put those candles out that she didn't even need Josh's help -- but I just loved to watch the spunk of he and his sister as it all played out!

And speaking of spunk! Who's that little red-headed guy?

I think he's a CHEESEBALL!

(this is his cheesy grin)

And the sweet birthday girl, passing out her fancy napkins to the kids who had to eat their birthday cake on the floor!!!

It seemed to be the best choice... didn't want to get cake all smoooshed into the carpet!

Shoot - they didn't mind!

This is Olivia -- the big sister... I just think she's the cutest little peanut!

I call this shot "Cheesy Grin with Cake"

He enjoyed it.

Did I mention how fun Josh is???? See? SPUNK.

Sweet lil Hanna even joined us for some cake.

And back to finish our painting...

Some of these were actually before the cake... you get the idea...

Alex chose to paint a 4-wheeler and I got to help him paint mud on the tires!!!

These next few shots are Annie - one of Ella's BFFs. She kept running out of brown paint!

Medora is really concentrating! I tried to get her to look up and smile... she wouldn't!!!

Oh and sweet sweet Evan. What an enjoyable little boy. We think he's the best!

I love the ghosty he chose to paint -- and he put a fun jack-o-lantern on the ghost's tummy! CUTE!

Josh and Olivia - very hard at work.

I couldn't get Olivia to look up and smile either!!!

That little elephant is a piggy bank. And again --- CUTE!

I think we all had a great time (and I think that I used the adjective "sweet" WAY too much in this particular post... but it's soo fitting...)

I know one of Ella's favorite parts of the weekend was that her Sweetie and Papa were there for her party. You can see some of Sweetie's pics on her blog:
www.dmb46.blogspot.com/2010/09/seth-ellas-birthdaysheridan-visit.html