Birthday #1

For the last few years, Avery has been begging and pleading for a birthday party. We hadn't done one in a while. You see, it can be a bit of challenge for parties around birthday time because we have 3 birthdays within 2 days of each other. Not to mention, Brigette's birthday is 2 weeks before, Easter is after that, our anniversary, then Garrett's birthday at the end of April. It just ends up being a crazy time for us! The birthday month also usually falls around the time of spring break or school holidays, as it did this year, so we often take the opportunity to travel, hence no time for birthday bashes. But if I am being completely honest, I am not a fan of parties. Probably due to the fact that I like to to go all out. I figure if we are going to have a party, let's PARTY! Then after it is all said and done, I am usually exhausted, have spent way too much money, and have had to hear a whole lot of complaining from kids. But, this year we decided that it was Avery and Carson turn for a party. In their early years it was easy to get away with combining parties, but not this year...so here is party number 1!

Avery was very specific on what kind of party she wanted, so it made my job mostly easy. Avery helped me make the invitations for her Cupcake party and was so happy how they turned out!

She wanted to hang heaps of pom poms everywhere, but after spending a fair amount of time making them, she settled for 10!

Here is the set-up awaiting our party guests...

The 1st activity was making a cupcake cookbook...

All the party guests busy making their cookbooks!

Next, each guest got to decorate a cupcake. I am not sure how much actually went on the cupcake versus in their mouths!

For lunch we served chicken and egg salad sandwiches with fruit kabobs and raspberry lemonade spider floats.

Avery found a picture of these adorable bird nest cupcakes and knew she had to have them at her party.

The birthday girl thinking of her wish!

The party girls got to take home their cupcakes in these little boxes along with their cookbooks, aprons, little spatula and wisks.

And what party wouldn't be complete without a little wii Just Dance and some blue sparkley shorts!