sweet 16 week of celebration

dan & i were headed out last night to a fancy dinner of mellow mushroom

pizza all by our sweet little selves

& were reviewing the last week.

i said something like, " no way. that was this  past whatever day?".

it's been non stop music.

remember my "ohmygah i'm so busy" pet peeve ?

yeah well.

we have not stopped 

like

i'm not even sure when.

in fact i mentioned last night that i'd love a little january blizzard

so i'm forced to stay home

nap

crank up my photoshot skills

read a book again in 2 days

& maybe have time to get a hair cut.

i digress...

emi turned 16 last week

& why have a big party and get all the celebratin' over in one fell swoop

when we can have multiple events.

all week long?

i'm just kidding.

when the girls were younger we always made a big fuss over birthdays

& had themed birthday parties 

complete with super cute printed invitations and all.

(before the age of evite thankyouverymuch).

we've had pony parties, pottery painting parties

madeline tea parties

gymnastics parties, ballet parties.

we've had character parties with winnie the pooh, anastasia and of course 

barbie.

as the girls got older we cruised in to slumber parties

movie theatre parties & putt putt.

but a big party for 16 year olds completely overwhelms me.

i am not a party planner

hence

the week of celebration.

emi is not a fan of cakes & cookies.

she's more of a candy & salty treats kinda girl.

 

her friends loved on her with a plethora of balloons at school that day.

 

 

& a special call from Kate

three peanuts, Kate :)

 

 

 

family dinner at Chow Baby

 

 friday night was friends dinner at Macaroni Grill

 

 

 

saturday morning she & i went on a little shopping spree

with her birthday morning.

destination: the new Lilly Pulitzer shop at Phipps Plaza

 

 & since ya'll know i'm so weird

i'm sure the fact that i fell. in. love

with the handpainted fitting room

( by a couple of "the" lilly print designers)

comes as no surprise.

& yes those are painted peanuts on the ceiling.

i just could not get over myself in there.

having lived all my life (minus a few years in nashville )

in atlanta georgia

i was smitten with all the peach state love!

we wrapped it up with a fancy sandwich

as we were all broke at that point

with emi's dearest friend katelyn and her mama carrie.

we had an awesome week full of making memories

& loving on our sweet sixteen brown eyed girl.

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