First up, Isabella. Here is a re-cap as best I can remember of her birthday parties:
1st - Chattanooga, TN with family
2nd - Farm theme party at our home in NC
3rd - Minnie Mouse theme party with family at our home in Memphis
4th - Petting Zoo
5th - Yikes! I can't remember!!
6th - Polly Pocket theme party at our home in Memphis
7th - Michaels craft store
The kids painted gumball machines, so I made a gumball cake & along with their project, everyone went home with a bag of gumballs!
Wagon wheels everywhere!
We had patchwork quilt cake, they made coin purses, & we looked at how far technology has advanced with everyday products.
Avery made a "wagon" on our outside playset.
9th - Painting Pottery Studio
10th - Slumber party at our home in Memphis
11th - Royal party at our home in Memphis
I mean, live size William & Kate on our front porch?? It was pure awesome & fun to see the guests be greeted by the Royal couple.
With the help of others, we had tea kettles of a British phone booth & Big Ben, mugs with the Royal lineage, flags, & other memoirs. We served tea kettle shaped sandwiches, scones, fruit & pretzels.
All were served at individual tables with borrowed china & decorations, including tea kettle shaped napkin rings.
We had British & Kate trivia games along with best hat awards & the prizes were these M&M's. We loved this party.
12th - Swim/sleepover party at friends home (who have an indoor pool!) in Memphis
How cool for a February birthday girl to get to have a swim party, in February!!
13th - London, England
Say no more. Thank you wax museum.
14th - Bogota, Colombia
Next, Brook:
1st - Memphis with family
2nd - Memphis with family
3rd - Calliou theme party at our home in Memphis
4th - Pumpkin Patch party
We went to a pumpkin patch, stuffed scarecrows, went on a hayride to pick pumpkins & ate "circle brownies". Brook loved/loves brownies & wanted brownies instead of cake. I baked them in my muffin pan & they were forever named "circle brownies".
Those curls!!!
5th - Book party at our home in Memphis (I have no pictures of this here, but basically, we made a "book" invitation, decorated with library books, & read books, including Brook reading a book to her friends.)
6th - Space party at our home in Memphis
Brook wore her astronaut costume for her party. On the door, we had a collage of pictures of Brook from different NASA centers.
She wore dangling star earrings & Isabella wore a NASA cap.
Table decorations were easy for this party. I used a black tablecloth with stars & decorated with books from the library (that always adds an easy, cheap way of decorating!). We had Milky Way candy & Starburst candy.
Moon Cake
And the first woman to walk on the moon! This is a picture of Brook taken at a NASA center which I made 2 copies of & cut to attach to a popsicle stick to put in the cake. We loved this!
We covered the windows, strung lights, used blue & black balloons, & hung stars to try to create the night sky.
Aluminum foil was my friend at this party! I wrapped many things, including the lamp shade!
This was our game, Land the Shuttle. I found this picture & took it to Fedex/Kinkos to have it enlarged & laminated. I found these shuttles at the Dollar Store. The kids played "land the shuttle". Everything about this party was so fun!
7th - Ballet party at our church in Memphis
Basically, pink was the theme...pink lemonade, pink cupcakes, pink dipped pretzel sticks, & everyone went home with a tutu.
We had a friend give a ballet lesson to the girls.
Sweet friends!
8th - Lego party at our home in Memphis
Our first online invitation, but it was appropriate for our theme.
Decorating for this was so fun & easy! I bought pink packing paper to put over a tablecloth, which kind of looks like Legos. I filled clear jars & vases with Legos & colored M&M's (I love decorating with candy!). I covered juice boxes with Lego paper with colored paperware, & the table was set!
This cake turned out just okay in the looks department, but tasted good :). I have always made all of the girls birthday cakes instead of buying them.
Circles & solid colors were the theme of our decorations, so these were our goody bags filled with Lego pencils, & a few other random things.
9th - Red carpet party at our home in Memphis
VIP Stage Door sign on our front door
Table decorations with Hollywood plates & Hollywood star table runner over a gold tablecloth.
I made cupcakes to try to look like red carpet cupcakes. I painted toothpicks black & used fruit roll ups as the red carpet.
Mints with the Hollywood movie reel logo on them, & of course, Hollywood napkins & awards for display!
Brook posing on our outside decorations. We created a Hollywood red carpet look with the famous walk of stars!
The girls came all dressed up & we gave away awards. Each girl received an award in a different category. We bought presents at the good will store as gifts (a handbag, high heel shoes, jewelry).
10th - Bogota, Colombia
And off the top of my head, here are a few other parties I really enjoyed hosting:
My sister's 39th birthday - We totally surprised her with a 39th birthday party instead of a 40th. It was awesome. We had a slide show, flew in her best childhood friend, & surprised her with a cruise. The night could not have been better.
Bachelor party - A few friends came over as we were going to watch the premiere night of The Bachelor. We had dinner together with roses everywhere. We laughed & made predictions the whole night. It was super fun.
I do love a good party & have been to a few good ones too! Hope you enjoyed looking at some of these pictures as I did to re-live some of them!
