Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Kaitlyn's First Slumber Party

So, in keeping with Kaitlyn's never ending birthday celebration, we had some of her friends over for a birthday slumber party.  I have to say, Pinterest is awesome for finding great ideas to use.


Dining room table was set as a bed.  I got the slumber dolls from Oriental Trading, and they were a big hit with the girls.

 
The bags are their gift bags, also from Oriental Trading.  Inside, they each got a book, Nancy Drew and The  Clue Crew: Sleepover Sleuths, Skittles, some stickers and a lip gloss. 
 

Her cupcakes were a tie-dye-ish frosting with zebra print hearts cut from sugar paper.
 
 

 
Outside, it was a little more "glam".  I had hair extension clips for the girls for the "Dance Party".
 
 
We had a sundae bar to go with the cupcakes. 
 
 
The girls had fun with their dolls while they watched Secret of the Wings.  I had a lot of the star LED tea lights scattered all over.  I got 6 packs for $.60 at Big Lots on clearance, and I had them everyway.  They were great to guide the way to the bathroom and my room at night in case they needed anything.  They did keep collecting them to dance around with.
 
There were five girls total  (and one boy for a while) at the party, but only four (including) Kaitlyn were sleeping over.  That was a great number, and I would have been hard pressed to find room for more.  We would have had some arguments over the couch.  They finally went to sleep around 10 which was pretty good, and they slept until 6:30.
 
 
We had eaten pizza outside the night before, but with only four, we ate breakfast inside.
 


Watermelon and cantaloupe flowers, hard boiled eggs, tater tots, and two doughnut holes.
 
I saw the drink idea on Pinterest.  That was great because I could prep them all the night before.  I had strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla magic straws to encourage milk drinking.  For dinner, they had lemonade in the jars, and I had colored heart ice cubes that they added in.  It made the lemonade change color as they melted, and they thought that was cool.
 
Overall, it went great, and the girls had a great time. 

 


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Kaitlyn's Cake

After a very busy holiday vacation, we finished up with Disney Princesses on Ice.  Nana was coming with us, so Grampa, Daddy and Connor had a football-boys day, and we had a girls day out.

We decided to celebrate Kaitlyn's birthday that day as well (third celebration - second with grandparents) and I made her cake.  She designed it, picked the colors and the flavors.

Without further ado...

Strawberry cake made purple.


Vanilla Cream Cheese frosting tinted teal.

Final product


Note the tie dye swirl - my idea :)


Inside the cake.  I had two strawberry jam layers to make it more moist.

She loved it!!