Anna Riley's birthday party- Part 3

Getting ready to eat

The Birthday girl!!

I think this was right after we sang to Anna Riley...Cooper
blew out her candles.  We have it on video...it was quite funny!

Let's try this again...

YUM!!

Tucker liked his Chocolate cupcake!

Fischer and Jackson eating cupcakes or maybe just icing?!

Zoe and Kendall

This picture describes Zoe at the party...she was the
little swiper, cleaning off everyone's plate! haha!!
She is sneaking food off of AR's plate in the pic!
She is a such a cutie and so funny! :)

Anna Riley's birthday party Part 2

Anna Riley did not really feel well on her birthday, poor thing!  She had a cold and she coughed a good bit of the night so she didn't sleep well.  Once we got to her party, she was so excited and played non-stop!  She didn't even want to stop for cake!!  I was really glad we had it somewhere other than our house, because she wouldn't have had as good of a time had it been here and her not feeling well.  She was so excited to see all of her friends, too!  They played and played and took a short break to eat and played some more.  I tried to get pictures of most of the kids, but I did not get many pictures of them playing because they were so fast going from one thing to the next!

She had a blast climbing up and down this slide! She
would climb up it all the way to the top!

Little Fishcer having fun!

The two great-grandmothers (Mimi and Granny Boo)
had fun watching all the kids!

PopPop and PawPaw
We were so excited that PawPaw got to come!!

PawPaw and lil sissy dressed in her
Minnie Mouse, too!

Some of the Dads...I think it is great that Dads come to bday
parties now too!! 

Chloe looked so cute in her litte Minnie dress!

Zoe all dressed in Minnie, too!  :)
Zoe came all the way from Atlanta to celebrate with us!!

Pop Pop feeding AK

Anna Riley really wasn't into pictures so this is the best
we could get!

Anna Riley with her PawPaw

Sweet Addie Gail

Pop Pop and AR

Maggie or Mags as AR calls her!  This is one of
Anna Riley's very best friends!

We are so thankful for all of our friends and family that came out to celebrate with us!  Anna Riley is so blessed to have such special people in her life!

Oh Two-dles...Anna Riley's Birthday party Part 1

We had Anna Riley's birthday party on Saturday, February 4th (her actual birthday) at Playhouse Christian Academy, a local daycare, that rents out for birthday parties as well. The party was at 10 am and I only had 30 minutes to set everything up so I was a little frazzled trying to get it all done...not to mention that the lady was 5 minutes late to open the door!  Oh the stress...one of these days I am going to get smart and just walk in with some cupcakes and be be done! :) 

Thanks to my wonderful Mom for all of her help!!!  I couldn't do it without her!!  

Since I took so many pictures, I will break them up over a few different posts.  Here are some of the decorations at the party...

This picture was framed at the party.  I am still amazed
that I got her to take a picture with the ears on...and smiling!!

The invitation by Do It Cute!  Peyton does such a great job!!
I showed her an example of something I liked and she
created it and then added some of her own touches, too!
Check her out on facebook if you ever need
any invitations, cards, etc!

The food table...We had hot dogs (Mickey's favorite),
fruit, chips, dip, popcorn puffs, m&ms & cupcakes.

I found the Mickey Mouse dishes at Target

My high school English teacher, Elaine Renfroe made
the cupcakes and they were wonderful!!

I bought printables from Etsy to make the banners,
labels...it also had cupcake toppers and a few other things
that I didn't need this time. I lucked up and got the printable
for only $5!!

The table centerpieces

Mickey/Minnie favor bags I made.  The bags had
some of AR's favorites: M&Ms, Fruit snacks, suckers,
crayons, stickers for the girls and tatoos for the boys.

More pictures to come...





Birthday celebrations

Around our house, we usually celebrate birthdays for a few days! 

On Friday, I made Anna Riley her "special" birthday pancakes...pb and chocolate chip pancakes with m&ms and sprinkles on top! :)  I sang Happy Birthday to her and she attempted to sing with me. 

Friday afternoon, Mom came to stay with the girls so I could do some last minute errands for the party on Saturday.  The weather was nasty Friday night but we had plans to take Anna Riley to dinner and for dessert.  Mom decided to just stay home with Ava Kate rather than going with us since it was such a messy night. 

Anna Riley loves going to eat Mexican.  We took her to Iguana grill last year for her birthday so we decided to go there again.  She thinks all the decorations in there are so pretty! :)

After dinner, we headed to Yogurt Mountain!  When we walked in, Anna Riley started clapping.  She loves her "ice cone" as she calls it.  I let her pick what to put on her yogurt...of course she had m&ms, reeces, sprinkles and hot fudge!

We then headed to Toys R Us to let her pick out a toy.  I have never let her just go in that store and so she was so excited.  She went from one toy to the next.  She finally found a Strawberry Shortcake grocery cart that she wanted and she pushed it all around the store. 

When she got home, she got her other present from us...an Anywhere chair form Pottery Barn with her name on it.

Saturday morning, we were pretty busy with getting everything together for the party but we stopped to sing Happy Birthday again! 

She also got new bedding for her bed.