Amelia's 9th birthday!!

Amelia is 9!! We pulled off a big surprise for her birthday this year... we thought that she was going to go insane trying to figure it out! We sent a secret invitation to her friends and asked them to bring earrings as a gift to Amelia because we were going to take her to get her ears pierced at her party. We had Amelia open a card from the family first which revealed the big surprise and had a gift card from Claire's in it to pay for everything. She then opened all of her friend's gifts and now has a wonderful collection of new earrings! After opening gifts we loaded up all of the girls into our vans and headed to Claire's... they were all so excited! Thank goodness Amelia had lots of support for the piercing because she was nervous, even though she has wanted to get this done for a long time. They did both ears at the same time and Amelia only cried for about a minute. Then we gave out gift cards to all of the girls to Claire's and they got to have a blast shopping for themselves! Then we headed home for mexican food and an Oreo Delight cake (Amelia's request). Amelia was very excited about her surprise birthday theme (she had known that she was having a party, but not what kind) and had a great day!