{This Moment} A Belated Birthday Celebration

{This Moment} A weekend ritual. A single photo -no words- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Wishing you a lovely weekend! xo 

Joy

In which a birthday gift arrives for Emma and she has the best reaction EVER! xo

In Celebration Of Emma

Emma turned eleven yesterday (which I cannot even believe) and we spent the day celebrating her and doing all the things she loves best! The day began with gifts for the birthday girl. 

First up: the gift Grace made her. 

Grace spent about two weeks working on this Hedwig for Emma. 

It was a design of her creation and I dare say it came out perfectly! 

Clearly, Emma agrees!

We had a feeling that she'd love this card!

Harry Potter stickers. 

It wouldn't be a birthday celebration without something to read. 

Yet another gorgeous book from one of our most favorite author/illustrators. 

Something to wear. 

Emma has been wishing and hoping for this sweet elf doll for about a year now. We loved being able to make this wish come true yesterday! 

Emma's Greta and Grace's Adalaide make a perfect pair of elf sisters (just like Grace and Emma do)! 

 We then took our celebration to The Queen's Cups. 

 Emma chose the Candy Shop cupcake. 

 And Grace chose the hot fudge sundae one. 

 And we all shared the Nutella filled chocolate chip cookie (that had just come out of the oven)! 

After our "tiny snack" Emma asked if we could go to Old Sturbridge Village. And since we were practically there already how could we not?!

After some sledding and a trip to the book store (where Emma spent some of the birthday money my brother gave her) we headed home.

We closed out her birthday day with the birthday ring, of course! 

The golden snitch was an instant fave! My dad never ceases to amaze!

What a perfect day for our sweet youngest girl. We cannot wait to see what this next trip around the sun brings her way! If it's any like the last eleven, it's bound to be amazing! xo

A Beachy Fairy Garden

A Happy Hedgehog Post beach themed fairy garden box helped to make Grace's birthday even more lovely than it already was! It arrived in the mail the other day, and the girls wasted no time putting their gardens together! The addition of the fairies they recieved at Easter time was absolutely brilliant (good thinking, Emma!) and made this sweet little table top garden even more lovely! Thank you, Donna, Peter and Henry for the love gift for Grace (and Emma) for her birthday! It was an instant hit! xo