Birthday Festivities!

It was a great day. I'm really upset with myself though about documenting the party...I had SO many ideas of things I wanted to capture and how, but didn't. Oh well, you get the idea from the pictures shown. I didn't have a "theme" per say, it was mostly a ribbons and lace shabby chic theme. If that's a theme. We had LOTS of food especially desserts. Our menu was: chicken salad, pb&j (on goldfish bread), chips, veggies, rice crispies on sticks, cake pops, strawberry shortcake, cream puffs, pink chocolate covered popcorn and pretzels dipped in chocolate (thanks to my fabulous neighbor who brought some over just because).

Brent was in charge of games and spent weeks planning. If you believe that, you don't know Brent very well. Saturday morning (yes, the party was on Saturday) he bought a bouncy house, picked up the bean bag toss (we borrowed from a friend), and made a "pin the tail on the elephant" game. We had to set everything up in the garage since it had been raining since Tuesday. It was awesome! I think all the kiddos had a good time. Who doesn't love a bouncy house? I've been asking for one since I was 12. This one has a slide-Brynlynn loved it!

Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate!

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