Birthday Girl

Lauren had preschool the day before her birthday and celebrated there with her little friends.   

She was thrilled to get a pink crown, balloon and be the special helper that day. 

 

Two weeks ago, Lauren and I sat down and put together little treat bags to hand out to her friends at school.  Each had a cupcake, shape ruler, stickers and party horn. 

 We started off her birthday with her favorites for breakfast, pancakes! 

Not so easy to make a pancake in the shape of a 5, but Dan managed to pull it off.

She wanted one of her favorite friends, Miss P to come over and have a play date.  They are so cute together, they like painting their nails and playing Barbies.  They wanted to make Fairy Houses so they worked on that for awhile.

 Lauren and I made a cake for that night.  I saw this beautiful rose cake on the Farm Chicks blog and we decided to copy that.  It was SUPER easy to do and I thought it turned out darling!

So pretty for a Valentine week birthday celebration! 

I love this red cake stand my sister in law, Kelly gave me. 

 Pink wasn't enough, so Lauren asked to put sprinkles all over it.  We usually have birthday dinners with grandma and grandpa but I still wasn't feeling that hot and making this cake was about all I could do.  They came over later instead for cake and ice cream and to open presents. 

She made a BIG wish.  And wouldn't tell a soul. 

I was worried with my not being anywhere near back to normal yet that this might be a cruddy birthday for her.  It was low key but perfect and I think she still had a wonderful day answering telephone calls and opening up presents from her cute cousins.  

I'm still a little in shock that my baby is now FIVE!!

It seems like were JUST celebrating her first birthday last week!  

5th Birthday Fairy Party

After many weeks of counting down, Lauren has turned FIVE!! 

 Hip hip hooray!  

We started out the party weekend with some of her friends over for a Fairy party.  

Her nanny bought her a new birthday dress when I was in the hospital and it matched her party colors perfectly.  She was so excited to wear it!

My good friend Natalie, at Natty Sue Designs made these really cute invites for me. 

Let me stress that I sat almost the entire party.  Dan was the best Fairy King one could ask for.  I had almost everything purchased and ready to go prior to my surgery, so all he had to do was implement it.  

We forgot a few things.  I didn't have half as many decorating details as I normally do for my kids parties.  

NO ONE NOTICED.  

Lesson learned!!

 We started out making fairy houses.  

I found the cardboard bird houses online at Hofcraft for .83 cents each and bought some rhinestone stickers for the girls to put on.  I also had some silk flowers to glue on. 

  Dan's sisters, Sarah and Jaylene drove up to help with the party. 

Lauren pretty much idolizes Jaylene so she was thrilled to have her there. 

 They played a few games like Pin the bow on Tinkerbell (a poster I bought at Wal-Mart with pictures of bows I printed out online) and Hot Potato (with a fairy wand)

I pretty much recycle games for every kid party, just changing it up to fit the theme.  Lazy or smart, I can't decide.

Each of the girls got a set of glittered fairy wings to wear and keep.  They looked so cute running around the house wearing those! 

 Since there was a fiasco of 3 little girl parties in the neighborhood that day, we did the cake, presents at ice cream early, since some girls had to leave early and some got their late.  

We did a pinata downstairs.  I think I'm totally over pinatas.  

Too much stress wondering who will get whacked in the head. 

Making a very big wish on her flower cupcake!

At the end we had a little extra time and the girls watched Secret of the Wings downstairs while we waited for parents to pick up.  It was a really fun party!   

As sad as it was for me to sit there and not do much, I'm really glad we went ahead with having it.  You can't really cancel a 5 year old party without years of regret and therapy now, can you?