A “Wonderful” 7th Birthday

I cannot believe that Merrik just turned 7 !  Wow where did the time go, someone please tell me …. With our schedules it is really a bit of a contortion act to plan Merriks birthday party on a day that works for Mark to attend.  We have always some how been able to manage it until this year   This was the first birthday that Mark had to miss .

Although my child’s birthday is technically in Spring it was nowhere near feeling like Spring !  Unless you consider 98 degrees with 40% humidity Spring like .  Heat aside the girls had a blast .

A day or so before the party we were chatting with a fellow photographer about the big “Merrik in Wonderland” party that was approaching .  He asked how in the world I was going to decorate for the party , run the party , be mom , manage 18 7 year old’s and shoot it . He suggested that I call in some favors perhaps so I didn’t have to worry about being the photographer for the day.  Of course me being completely insane , I thought I could handle it !  Who was I kidding ….. I completely went into mommy mode and completely forgot every technical thing I know and went into snapshot mode . So that night after the party while going through the images I must have thought of at least a dozen things that as a photographer I would have never missed , but as mom were the last things I thought of.

So all that to say , I can’t do it all …. there I said it .  For those of you who know me you know what a major statement that was !  Next year either we plan it around Mark Eric’s schedule or I hire a photographer .  To my fellow photographers who manage to pull it off for your kids birthdays all alone  , you rock  .

A great big fat shout out to my lil sis Halette for enduring the heat to help me decorate , my dad for grilling in Mark’s place .  Last but most definitely not least to my AMAZING friends/neighbors Candace and Stephanie you guys are such a blessing and I would have never survived the day with out all of your help …Love all of you to pieces

Heather

We thought it would be fun to have the girls all enter to the party through a rabbit hole , I myself never attempted to crawl through .  They seemed to like it though.

Merrik with Alice and Hatter !  Thanks Karen and Ross , Merrik Loves you two !

My niece Lindsay decided to give me this after she was done on the water slide .  Gotta love her .

The three amigos , Thanks Candace for taking this pic with your camera.  Our party memories would not have been complete without it and my brain never thought to grab this shot.