Mark & Mandy

Today Elsie’s birthday party was featured on Hostess with the Mostess (Real Parties). Hostess is one of my daily reads for lots of fabulous party ideas!

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Here is elsie in her flowers …

If you take a closer look you will see that she had a fight with the sidewalk and her nose lost …

On Sunday we headed over to Lake Valley to have a visit with the Spruill’s – today we tried out our new giraffe suit (me tarzan, you jane)…

I wasn’t sure if Elsie would be into the water, but instantly she headed right in … I sent mark in with her since it was too cold for me.

Sophie and Emma also loved the water

The girls had some fun digging for gold in the sand (sadly we didn’t find any)

maybe there is gold in the water …

nope, not in the water!

Elsie and dad spent some time walking the blue rope of the beach (this picture is too cute!)

and some time flying above the water

We had a great lunch, jessica made some yummy curry salad and we had a bottle of wine. I will leave you with one last shot … Elsie’s longer hair. For so long Elsie’s didn’t have much hair, but slowly we are getting more! Hooray!