This past Saturday, January 5th, we hosted Maddie's birthday party at our home. It was a Winter One-derland theme and we had such a fabulous time. She seemed to enjoy all the family and friends visiting and especially liked playing with the balloons. We had about 45 people there which made for a great celebration! We had lots of help to help pull it off... my mom came the night before to help prep, Grandma Jill and Aunt Lori made gorgeous cookies, my friend Ronda also made some yummy cookies, Mal got the balloons, Grandpa Dave helped pick up the pizzas from Costco, and Mandy helped me clean up... Seriously a team effort! We had personalized coloring books for the kids and craft activities where the kids could make snowflakes, snowmen, or snowflakes frames. They seemed to like that, but the crafts didn't keep the kids downstairs. We all ended up in the loft where the kids enjoyed playing with all the toys! Mimi helped me clean it up afterwards and we only suffered 1 piece of chalk smooshed into the carpet and few broken toys. Not bad at all for the amount of kids we had over! Maddie got to indulge in her first dessert... a strawberry cupcake with pink frosting. It was actually only a half cupcake, because Michael swiftly took half of it away while she was distracted in hopes of avoiding a sugar shock to her system! She seemed to like it (must've got her mama's sweet tooth!). Below are some pictures of the event- because we know Madeline won't remember it at all!
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| Our family of four! |
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| The kids with their wonderful, amazing grandmas! |
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| Madeline and her Auntie Mal |
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| The "Kid's Table" |
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| Connor enjoying the coloring station... with personalized coloring books! |
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| My sweet, sweet friends. I am so blessed to have these girls in my life! |
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| Maddie apparently couldn't take her eyes off the cupcake for a quick picture! |
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| Enjoying her cupcake! Yum!! |
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| Maddie with her Uncle Chad |
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| The Harden Family with Grandma Jill! So nice of family to come up for our party! |
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| Amy and Ricky and Great Grandma and Grandpa made the trip up! |
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| The Loft in ACTION! |
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| Delicious desserts... Grandma's Sugar Cookies, Pretzel "Icicles", and cupcakes |
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| Slideshow on the computer and favors (hot cocoa with snowman marshmallow lollipops) |
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| Doesn't every one-year-old need a personalized wreath for their winter wonderland party? |
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| Decorations! Thanks to the help of Grandma Jill and Mimi! |
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| Goodies for the Hot Cocoa Bar... seemed like a hit! |
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| Maddie's Monthly Pictures |
1 comment:
It was a perfect party for a perfect little princess! She's such a blessing to us all :)
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