The day is finally over and boy am I beat. I’m pretty sure utter exhaustion means that the party was a success.
I’m really surprised my post has gotten this far. It is very tempting to say we had veggies, cake, cocoa, tea, and games and call it a night, but I know you are all just dying to hear about the party. Plus you’ll want photos, and a movie, which means I have to blog from Sue’s because all the photos were taken by SAJ and as such are all on her laptop. So just for you, and you, and yes you too. I’ll keep going.
I guess I’ll start with the food and decorations.
We broke out the silver platters and trays, my polka dot bowls, the silver tea pot, the pretty sugar bowl, and Sue’s demitasse cups she brought back from her trip to Paris. I over planted my flower pots as centerpieces. The two blue pots had a pink mini rose plant surrounded by an six alyssum. The smaller pot had three cream and purple pansies. Like I said, they are over planted because I wanted them to be very full for the party. A scrawny pot does not make for a very pretty centerpiece. As far as decorating went I blew up some balloons to tie to the mailbox and the back of the chairs, but they only made it as far as the living room floor; and Sue hemmed some material to use as a table topper and runner. That was it. Really. This is definitely low key for me. The attention IS in the details and since the details were taken care of I didn’t worry about the obvious.
Speaking of details. Do you see all those delicious looking petit fours? SAJ and Bethany carefully decorated each and everyone. Before they did, they definitely did not look very pretty. While the kids loved the cake, what stole the show was the tray of conversation hearts. I put out 2 1/2 bags. There MIGHT have been half a bag left at the end of the party.
I think all the kids had more than their daily allotment of sugar.
The kids played pin the strawberry on the cupcake, “Twister” on the rug, Freeze Frame, and sort of worked on puzzles. But the biggest hit was the bean bag toss. They lined up over and over and over again. I never expected it to be such a hit.
This was a very popular expression today. At least we know that she liked her gifts.
SuperChic got some clothes, kid make-up, “real” make-up (Thank you Annalie!!!!), books, a pillow, a MLP, and a V-Motion (in pink, of course). Needless to say she made out like a bandit. The real kicker is that she has more presents to open tomorrow when Shawn gets home.
I think I covered it all. If I remember anything I’ll post it tomorrow with Birthday Round Two.
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