Nelson Family Blog: Emma's Doc McStuffin's Birthday Party

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Emma's Doc McStuffin's Birthday Party

Another June weekend has flown by, at this rate summer will be over before we know it! Yikes!

This was a really fun, busy weekend. John had a wedding to shoot in Sioux Falls on Friday night, so I had a full day with the kiddos, and a wild, crazy evening with them. We headed to Mankato on Saturday morning for Stefanie Black's wedding. We got to Rachel's house around 12:30pm and relaxed and hung out with the family until the wedding started.

The wedding was at Minneopa State Park, which was actually really close to Rachel's house. It ended up being a beautiful day, and the wedding was very nice. The kids did very well through the whole thing. They traveled well, and they even handled the ceremony and most of the reception without too many meltdowns.

After the ceremony, we checked out the waterfalls in the parks, got some nice photos, and then headed to the Best Western for the reception. Mom and Dad got a hotel room for the night, so it was nice to have a place to bring the kids when they got too rowdy at the reception.

The reception went pretty well. The food was good, and the dancing was pretty fun. Emma was a little dancing machine, and would not leave the dance floor. She also was asking just complete strangers to dance with her, it was pretty cute. Elliott was done for by about 7:30pm, mom was nice enough to hang out with him in the hotel room until Rachel and I brought the kids back to her house. We finally got the kids to sleep at around 10:00pm, and then we went to bed, exhausted.

John and Ryan came home after the dance was over, and after consuming lots and lots of beer. Typical.

Today was a really fun day as well. We celebrated Emma's third birthday with my side of the family, with a Doc McStuffins Themed party. Emma loved it all. She loved playing with everyone, the ice cream cake, the presents, being sang to, and basically everything about today. She was pretty adorable and happy all day long, even without a nap of any kind.

The guests of the party included: Marline and Elaine Kiecker, Julie, Todd, Cody, and Kyle Huiras, Janel, Trevor, and Jenna Schweiss, Mark and Kathy Clobes, Barb F, Patty and Jack, Rachel and Ryan. It was very nice to see everybody and it was a great party.

The weather was beautiful, so we spent a lot of time outside enjoying the sunshine. Emma got spoiled rotten with quite a haul of wonderful new toys to play with. She played super hard today.

The ride back home was a little painful. Elliott was crabby, and Emma was overtired as well. But we made it, and now we are prepping for another busy week. It's going to be very busy with work, and trying to get Emma's Frozen Birthday Party ready for this weekend with John's side of the family.

Also, today was Father's Day, so Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful daddy's out there, especially mine, and my husband. They are the best dads I know, and couldn't be more blessed than to have them in my life.