E's birthday Party

Aloha Friends!! Welcome to E's 10th birthday party! My goodness this party was FUN!

Decorations all ready to set the mood!!

The cake the had me in tears. Is it really that bad, absolutely not. It's just not our usual kind of cake, It's much more simplistic and really now looking back, it's beautiful. 

All of the stitch goodies.

 Friends dressed up! Kaydence, Naomi, E, Emma & Lucy. This is the first year that we have only had school friends over and honestly it was such a wonderful change of pace. Small group, the girls were all the same age. We had a great time!

 

 First thing we did was screenprint some tote bags. For some reason in my mind I saw this process going so much faster than it did. I planned a two hour party and we were almost an hour and a half in by the time we finished the totes. note to self.... give yourself more time!

 

Then we ca,e upstairs to make our little scrumps. This was a absolute gong show but it was so so fun!!

It was at this time that we started to loose girls because our time was up. We sent them home with a tote full of activities that we didn't get finished. Oops.  

Drinks while they worked.

Naomi and E

E and Emma

E and her bestie Lucy.

Our finished Scrumps! Holy Moses they are so dang darling!

Now I felt absolutely terrible because we ran out of time for E to have her friends sing Happy birthday and eat her cake. E was so dang sweet and posed for pictures regardless but it broke my Mama heart a bit!

WE made E a Stitch shirt when we made the totes. 

Making her water bottle.

And while the party was fun E got to have a "late over" with her bestie Lucy. They spent the day playing and Lucy came around the corner with a striped tiger. I asked her about it and she said that it's her favorite stuffy. Like Sprout's Elephant. I laughed and told the girls to wait a second while I headed up to the attic. I pulled down my Beanie Baby tote and started sifting through it. I have the exact same tiger. The girls were so stoked to have twinning tigers. Lucy's is named "Fluffy" so they named E's "Scruffy". 

And that's another wrap on a birthday. It's was busy and wonderful and I'm happy it's been checked off the list! Happy birthday E!!! You are so loved!!!

Duke's Octanauts Birthday

Papa and Gram were kind enough to let us host Duke's birthday at their pool. It made everything so dang easy.

Roo even had his won mini pool. 

We ordered pizza....

...and everyone swam...

 

 

...or flew. 

We had cake.

 

And we swam some more. 

This boy felt loved, it was low key and it was perfect!!

Hurray for summer birthdays!!!

Art Party

 It's time to party!! My parties have relaxed a lot in the decorations department. The kids just don't care and it makes life easier. Here's E posing with her cake that she decorated almost entirely on her own! (See Previous Post.)

 She did such a great job!!

 Then we tye dyed t-shirts. We had leftover tye dye from the project Aunt Janet asked us to do and what a perfect time do it! The girls had a great time making them. Papa came to take pictures too. So sweet of him to be there!

 Here's how Duke and E's turned out. SO much fun!!!!!

 Then we did a paint with me course. E picked a picture from online and I taught the girls how to paint them. 

It turns out it was a semi-difficult skill to master but I was so impressed with how the kids pictures turned out! 

 

 Bear was a trooper sitting at his own table working away while the girls were all at the big table. thanks for being such a great sport Bear!

 I {love} this picture so dang much!! 

 

 E's picture.

 

 Time for cake.

 Happy birthday my beautiful girl!

 

 Time for presents and love!

 It was absolutely a success and E was so dang happy. I loved watching her glow while she chatted with her friends and made art. This girl makes my heart so dang happy! Peanut, you are so loved!