Showing posts with label parties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parties. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2013

Amy's Birthday - June 2013

This was Amy's first year to have a birthday party with friends.  She was so excited and requested a Lalaloopsy party.



That morning she opened presents and then Lydia and I got to work getting ready for the party (I love having Lydia as a helper in the party planning department.  She was excited to do most of the work!)




The day before we drew this Lalaloopsy poster and the girls colored it for "pin the crown on Lalaloopsy".


Lydia also helped me put together a treasure hunt.  She came up with, and wrote most of the clues herself.


When the birthday girl's friends arrived, we read "Lalaloopsy Party Time" and then they got to work decorating their foam crowns with foam stickers.



Then they played "pin the crown on Lalaloopsy"



Afterwards Lydia took them on the treasure hunt where they found a "treasure chest" full of goody bags and lalaloopsy puzzles.


Next up was snow cones...since in the Party Time story, the Lalaloopsy girls had snow cones at their party.  This was a HUGE hit!  The girls loved them.


Hannah, Raena, Miss Amy, Londyn, and Atlin
Super fun little group of girls.


After eating their weight in snow cones and playing for a while, they came inside to open presents.  I loved this picture of Amy giving Raena a thank you hug for her gift. 

Amy was on cloud nine all day and so, SO excited to be the birthday girl.  I'm glad we don't do "friend" parties every year, but it does make all the prep work worth it when you have a little girl who enjoys it so much!

Some fun facts about Amy on her 5th Birthday:

Favorite Food:  macaroni
Favorite Colors:  purple and pink
Favorite Toy:  Lalaloopsy
Best Friends:  Mesa, Raena, Atlin, and "my other friend with blond hair" (Londyn...she has a hard time remembering her name ;)
What do you want to be when you grow up?  An artist

I love this girl so much!  She is becoming quite the little chatterbox.  She will play for hours with her toys and can easily entertain herself.  She also loves girly things.  She loves to "style" my hair, paint nails, accessorize her outfits, and pick out what earrings I should wear.  She has long beautiful curly hair that looks so cute every morning for about 10 minutes, but then is a crazy mess the rest of the day because she plays so hard.  She's a charmer and it's hard to resist her hugs and sweet smile.  She can also be a little dramatic, but luckily not too often.  She is by far the most excited for our new baby to come.  She makes sure to give my belly hugs and kisses several times a day and always wants to see pictures of our baby (pictures from the Baby Center app).  I have a feeling she will be quite the little "mother" and helper when he joins our family.  

Amy definitely adds spice to our family!

Monday, December 31, 2012

Christmas Party 2012

This year for our Annual Christmas Party, we decided to do away with the ugly sweater contest and switch it to a prize for the most festive couple!  For the 50+ guests that came (which is also why we have it at our library's community room now instead of our house), we only had a few participate in the contest, but boy where they good!

Greg's festive suspenders (which were much too small for him!)

The Barclays!  I thought for sure they would be the winners...

...that is until these two walked in...

The Ostlers!
Curtis even had his battery pack in the gift bag so that the lights on his tree would light up.

And how can you compete with this...

The Hunt's REALLY got into it!

Fun times!