6th Birthday Celebration

The birthday celebration for the big 6 year old is finally here! Erin helped me pick up the cupcakes from Walmart and decorated them with special Lalaloopsy cupcake toppers.  We loaded all the decorations, the cooler with the drinks and the cupcakes and set off for the pool.  They had reserved 3 tables for us under the awning.  We set up the table cloth and the decorations and the guests started to arrive!

The girls enjoyed swimming in the kids pool and going down the slide.  The dove for rings and swam with life vests into the deep end.  The had the best time and worked up quite an appetite by the time the pizza got there.  They devoured their cheese and pepperoni pizza.  Then they girls moved on to the cupcakes.  They had a choice of chocolate or white cake.  Both were a huge success!

Erin decided to open her presents before her friends had to head out.  She got the most adorable Lalaloopsy doll house, a Lego friend, a Lalaloopsy little and many other fun toys.  She handed out the guests personalized goody bags and the party came to an end.  Overall, Erin had a great time with a great group of girls!  This will be a memorable 6th birthday party.  :)

Erin and her friends Macy Madeline and Paige

Mia Michelle, Erin, Macy Madeline and Stella

Ready, Set, Her We Go!!

We are ready for tomorrow's birthday celebration:

Custom cupcakes frosted in turquoise, pink, orange and green complete with matching confetti sugar.... Ordered!

Pepperoni and cheese pizza... Pre-ordered and ready to be delivered at 12:30.

Themed party decorations... Made goody bags, party favors and paper dolls.

Plates, tablecloth... Check! Just need to get 1 more set of plates and napkins.

Anything left? I need to get ice for the ice chest, juice and water and pick up the cupcakes.

It's been busy, but I hope Erin has a wonderful and memorable 6th birthday pool party!! :)

Lalaloopsy Birthday Mania

Erin has decided on a Lalaloopsy party for her birthday.  For those not familiar with Lalaloopsies, they are rag type dolls made out of plastic.  They have large heads, colored hair and button eyes.  The only problem with her selected theme is that there is no commercially packaged party ware.  This means that Mom has to make all of the decorations, party favors and invitations.  So far, I have come up with a paper doll, invitations, cupcake toppers, goody bags and a couple of party favors.  I also found a really cute brightly colored polka dot table cloth that will match the theme perfectly.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

We decided to head to our favorite local restaurant for the Cinco de Mayo celebration. We love Fajita Willies. They make the best fish tacos and chicken enchiladas!
We decided to sit outside where we could enjoy the live music and keep an eye on Erin while she played in the sand box or bounce house. The restaurant had hired a balloon artist for the celebration. He crafted an adorable Ariel for Erin.
We all enjoyed the celebration and left Willie's feeling like we had gone on a mini vacation. What a great way to unwind after a long week! :)

Erin & Mom Herb Garden Project

A couple of weeks ago, Erin and I decided to start an herb garden. We thought it would be fun to have some herbs of our own that we could use for cooking. We went to Lowes and found a really cool herb garden kit for us to start our garden.

I comes with the seeds, 8 cocoa pods that grow when you add water and a self watering dish. We planted cilantro, basil, oregano and parsley. The kit gave us enough seeds to grow 2 of each herb. We planted the seeds, watered them and had to wait about 10 days for all of them to sprout.

We have now moved our young plants outside for them to adjust to the temperature. I will take a couple of weeks before they are ready to be planted in pots and spend all their time outside. Erin enjoys checking on the plants every day and reporting on their growth. So far, the cilantro seems to be our speediest grower! :)

Daisy Service Project

As part of their duties as Daisies, the girls are expected to do one service project a year in order to give back to the community.  The girls decided to plant flowers at the School District's Science Resource Center.  This is a place where all of the schools in our area go for field trips.  They have a wide variety of animals and plants for the students to see and experience.

7 of the 10 girls came to the resource center after school.  They all brought their gardening gloves and tools and got ready to plant!  The girls planted marigolds and other colorful flowers in planters that were featured in the entrance of the building.  They also planted some herbs and other colorful plants in a small garden in the back of the building.  They all had a fun time working together and making the area pretty!

Spring Fling

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Warner Elementary Spring Fling.  They have this event every year to raise money for the school's parent teacher organization.  They have a bunch of booths set up for the kids to participate in a variety of games.  There is also a silent auction that sponsors have contributed items to.

Erin was so excited to go to this year's event.  She was particularly pumped about the dunk tank.  They actual teachers sitting in the tank.  Erin decided to start with this booth because her Science teacher was up to be dunked.  As you can imagine, this was an extremely popular attraction and the line was a mile long... Once we got to the front of the line, Erin got 3 tries to hit the target with a tennis ball.  She succeeded on the 3rd try and in went the Science teacher!!

Erin also enjoyed finding treasure in the sand pit.  She managed a whole in one at the put put station.  She tossed the ping pong ball into the fish bowls in spite of the wind and she got to make a spin art Frisbee (this was the 2nd big activity on her list of things to do).

Big Girl at the Spin Art Table