Woodland Creatures Party For Our Girls

Sorry, it's been a crazy couple of weeks.  After Halloween I realized I had like 2 days to plan the girls' birthday party.  Usually I do a good job of planning well beforehand but this time it seemed like Halloween and their birthdays snuck up on me.  Plus Paige changed her mind on what kind of theme she wanted for the party only about a week before.  She saw these forest animal cookies we could make in a magazine and decided she wanted a woodland creatures party.  I couldn't find ANYTHING to go with that theme except for some cupcake toppers on Etsy.  They were REALLY cute though, so we ordered them. 

Other than that we made those cookies and pretty much just bought plates and balloons and things in foresty colors.  

 

I just plopped the cookies on top of the cake and she was happy. 

I was torn between inviting lots of friends now that she's in school, and just keeping it small with family and close friends since it's their last party before we move.   In the end we kept it small and intimate-partly because I procrastinated so badly.  Ha.  Grama was kind enough to let us use her house. 

Even with just close family and a few friends there are always lots of people who love them.

Even Matt and Tiffany bravely came with their family-including their 3 day old angel baby girl.  She visited with everyone.

I figured this would be the year that Neely would be in to opening presents, but she opened MAYBE 1 or 2, and I did the rest.  She only payed attention to a couple of gifts at all, until we came home and she realized it was all hers.  :)

They had a nice party.  It was ON Neely's actual birthday, so she really was 2.  Paige's actual birthday was 3 days later.  She was turning 6 on the 6th, so it was her golden birthday.  We woke her up to the usual chocolate muffin breakfast, and had gold balloons all over for her.  She ate her breakfast, opened a couple of small gifts, and fielded birthday phone calls.  :)

She couldn't wait to go to school.  She got a flower from Grama, and we dropped off a balloon for her.  She was DYING to get home and get her big gift though.  We had told her she was going to LOVE it and that it was such a big one it was for her birthday AND Christmas.  So she couldn't wait.  We got her a Kindle Fire.  I felt a bit weird about it at first.  I knew it was a good idea for her, as smart as she is and as much as she loves to read and learn, but I felt like those people who get their 9 year olds a cell phone.  Ha.  But like Jess said, most kids get and Xbox or whatever, and this is something that can be educational AND fun.  She of course LOVED it, and in fact only had it for a day before having it confiscated for a couple of days.  She's going to have to learn not to be TOO possessive of it.  ;)

Can't believe our girls are SIX and TWO!  We're so blessed.  Both of them are so sweet, beautiful, smart, funny, and a tad feisty and stubborn.  We love them like crazy!