Birthday Celebrations!

Out for her MichaelDonald's meal on her birthday.

Friend Party
On Friday night Brynn celebrated with her friends at our house. She said the theme was a "magic makeover" party, which was the same as last year. I wasn't really sure what she had planned, but they mostly just played after eating supper and opening gifts.

She wanted to dress in her new Brave gown for the party.

Our sad cupcakes. Ha. They tasted good though.

Blowing out the candle in her ice cream: http://youtu.be/4RvxqHBEzFs

She LOVES doing people's hair and her friends were nice enough to let Brynn do theirs.
This must have been part of the magical makeover. :-)

Family Party
On Saturday we had family over for another birthday celebration. For the past five years I've making making Brynn's cakes....and she actually doesn't even like cake. (Hence the ice cream on Friday night when everyone else was eating cupcakes). So, finally we had enough sense to do an ice cream cake! Perfect. The theme of this party was Peppa Pig.

Blowing out the candle: http://youtu.be/79SBb_e6RJE

Working on a pin board frame that you can color/personalize. Today we printed out pictures for her to post on it.

Peeeeeppa pig! OINK!

Elise checking out her favor bag goodies.

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes, attending the party and for the awesome gifts. She got so many nice things. It's so hard to believe another year has gone by already. She has a check-up next Friday, so I'll update again then!

Comments

theweckerlys said…

Aw yay! I'm so glad to see the update and the pics (love the one of dad and Brynn as pigs ha). I've been wondering how her celebrations went. Wish we could have been there!

January 12, 2014 at 11:09 PM

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