Saturday, October 22, 2011

Party Time!

This week my baby girl turned 3! Seriously, where did the time go?!? Ava keeps me on my toes. She is a total girly girl, and super snuggly. She is also quite the diva, and can throw a tantrum like none other- luckily it only happens once in awhile. She is so smart and funny, and we just love her to pieces.

On Conference weekend we celebrated with the Murset crew for our October family lunch. I have been meaning to post these cakes that Lori made-WHILE IN LABOR . She is so awesome! Ava has a thing for princesses, and loved them! I was super impressed at her skill. Decorating cakes is hard enough without having contractions! Lori had cute little Jack that same day...



I didn't end up working on Ava's actual birthday, so we just snuggled and hung out (I was sewing and making her cake for a chunk of the day) while we waited for Nathan & Tyler to get home. When I asked what she wanted for her birthday dinner she said "Chicken Nuggets!!" so we had that, a pink ruffle-y cake and strawberry ice cream for dessert.






Today she had her friend party. Tyler helped me make these awesome invites on my Cricut.

The dress folded up and all the party info was inside.

I had been up to my eyeballs in pink tulle and tissue paper this past week making tutus, and pompoms. Are so sensing the theme here- My baby LOVES pink! She says, "Pink is my best color" haha, so cute!

 Her cute little friends got here and each got their own  tutu. Then we had little PB& J sandwiches, strawberries dipped in white and pink chocolate, grapes, pink lemonade, and cute pink cupcakes. After lunch the girls made bead bracelets and we painted the their nails. My two Sister In Laws, Maria & Lori, SAVED me by helping out with all the girly stuff.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! After presents and cupcakes the girls each got a cute princess crown and pink lollipop. It was such a fun little party, and a first friend party for almost all the girls. Ava got so many awesome gifts. 





Miss Em

Cute Girls
(please excuse the toys in the back...)

I feel so blessed that our kids have such great cousins and friends...I just loved that after we got the plates all served that Ava said, "We need to say the prayer" And they all folded their arms and bowed their heads- 2 & 3 year old little girls! How precious is that?? It was such a fun day for our princess and I am so glad it went well!!!

6 comments:

Joie said...

Wow, you always do such a great job with your kids' parties.

I love the bit about the prayer. :) So sweet.

Maria Nielson said...

That was seriously the cutest, girly-est party ever! I'm glad I was able to go, and that it put me in a better mood, haha :D I can't believe she's 3!!!!

Laura Edwards said...

I can't believe how big she is now! Looks like it was a fun party! Love the tutus :)

The Yoder's Five said...

You are such a GOOD MOM! Wow! That cake is so awesome! Love all the pink. Does she have the books in the Pinkalicious series? She'd love them!

Ava is so cute and is looking more like you all the time. Happy birthday!!

The Mursets said...

We do have some of the Pinkalicious books- she loves them.

Carolina mama said...

You are an amazing party giver.