Birthday Party Weekend

We are so thankful for this little girl. This gift from God. She is a beautiful, sweet, kind, tender hearted little-big girl. 

We celebrated her big 4th birthday over the weekend. (4? Already??) She had been so excited for her ballerina party! Even more excited that she was getting to share the day with one of her best friends, Skyler. Their birthdays are only a few days apart and they attend the same ballet class. It worked out perfectly! I was really excited to work on this party with Skyler's mom, Christi. She's one of my good friends & I knew we would have a blast! She is a little (a lot, really) more creative than I am. This party turned out so cute!! We also had a lot of help from her super creative sister, Carla!

But before the party, we celebrated with a 'birthday party day gift.' Just something small, play jewelry & a Hello Kitty sticker book. If you have talked to Isabelle in the last few weeks, you know that she loves Hello Kitty. In fact, just the day before her party, she was asked what she wanted for her birthday. She said, "Hello Kitty." 

After spending some time together, I left the house to get all the last minute things done. Thankfully, we had already finished most of the items on our To-Do list. It felt good to not be running around town like a chicken with my head cut off. 

With a lot (I mean, a lot.) of help from my husband, we arrived with everything we needed for the party. We quickly set things up. Balloons. Food. Table cloths on the floor for the kids to eat on. Cake. Presents neatly stacked. Tutu's hung on display.

All of Isabelle & Skyler's friends walked in, excited! There was play jewelry to play dress up with, plenty of tutu's. All the girls were so precious, and the birthday girls were so excited to show off their dance class!

Once everyone arrived, we started the dance class. When Grandma arrived, Isabelle stepped aside just to give her a hug. I thought it was so sweet!! She loves her "Grammy" so much. 

Mrs. Denise told stories of princesses. After each story, they would get up and do a special dance. 

Isabelle was so excited that one of her best friends from school, Rachel, was able to make it! She talks about her all the time & loves her very much!

After some dancing & music, Mrs. Denise rolled out the dress up outfits. You can imagine how excited these little girls were!! It was the highlight of the party!

They danced & danced & danced. The last song was slow. Isabelle found her Daddy. :) This is my favorite picture from the entire day!

Dress up time ended, the class was over. The girls got back in their tutu's and it was time to eat some lunch. And sing happy birthday to those sweet 4 year olds. :) 

We watched as they opened presents. Which didn't go as smooth as I had hoped. It got a little chaotic! But it was fun. They both got some great gifts from some great friends! 

The party was a success! All the girls had fun, we had a great teacher, the parents loved it, and I was able to do something fun with my friend, Christi, before she moved. Shortly after we agree to plan a party together, she was asked to take a job about an hour and a half from here. It breaks my heart that they no longer live here. We have gotten so close to their family & love them so much. Thankfully, they're not too far and we can go visit. And we definitely plan on visiting a lot this summer! 

Isabelle celebrated her birthday on Monday. She woke up to presents and breakfast by Daddy. It was her first day back to school after spring break and she was ready to get back! Jared & I picked up doughnuts & Krispy Kreme hats and took them to her class for snack time. They all sang happy birthday to her and she got to blow out a candle! 

After school, she said she wanted to play at Chick-fil-a so we headed on over there. Enjoyed lunch and a cup of ice cream. 

She was also able to get a new big girl car seat! She's so excited that she gets to use the "car seat belt." And she looks so grown up!! Madeline really loves the new upgrade, because now Madeline gets Isabelle's old car seat. And that is so cool to her!

We finished her big day with dinner at Logan's, or as she calls it: "The Restaurant with the peanuts on the floor." 

She had a great day! We had so much fun celebrating. Thanks to all of our friends & family for all of your calls, texts & facebook comments. She loved talking to everyone and hearing all of your comments!