Ruby Birthday Party

Ruby LOVES Pinkalicious and requested this theme for her 3rd birthday quite a while back. It was fun and easy. On the 13th we had a swim party with church friends and our wonderful family who always comes to help celebrate.

Big girl ready for her party!

The pink table! We kept the food inside bc it was so hot out!

These 3 ready to welcome friends!

I put a few Pinkalicious quotes around.

Ruby was happy with all the pink sweets! I tried to make the cupcakes look as much like the ones in the book as I could!

Grandpa and Peggy are always so good to come help celebrate.

Ruby's good buddy Avery from Harvest campus came! You wouldn't know it, but Avery is actually 4 months older than Ruby. She's just so petite!

Here are her party guests! The part that Ruby talked about the most afterward was that while everyone was eating I read Pinkalicious to the kids. She loved it!

She was a happy little party go-er!

This girl is always thrilled with a baby! I forgot to picture it, but we sent a party favor of some green goodies and put the quote, "To return to normal, you must eat a steady diet of green food." It was a great end to a fun day!

Ruby bday celebrations

Ruby's birthday celebrations started one day early with a school friend swim play date. Everyone came & enjoyed swimming for a couple hours, and I had a cake to share. Super low key, but a perfect way to get together!

John Lane, Reid, Annie, Ruby, Owen, Connor, and Piper! Ellis and Aidan were there, too (Henry had art camp)! So thankful for these dear friends (and their mamas!).

Ruby was thrilled that the Swanners brought her a gift-glow in the dark nail polish and "her own" bath bombs! We had a bath and did nails ASAP after this gift!

On her actual bday, Tuesday, we ended up having a super fun but super busy day! The girls and I dropped Henry at art camp and then got a donut for bday breakfast at our favorite donut Palace! Then we headed to the splash pad for a couple of hours before picking Henry back up.

No better place to go on a hot July day!! This girl love the splash pad.

Next we ran and picked up Henry and headed to Cow Appreciation at CFA. It just so happened to be on her bday! We met up with our friends the Stubbs. We had a crazy experience-the power went out completely while we were there (like as we were ordering)! We got most of our food, still, but had to sit in the heat in a very odd environment! I noticed the "Crisis Management Manual" was out on the counter! Those poor workers!

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After naps and Daddy coming home, we headed to Chuck-e-Cheese as promised. The 3 kids were so thrilled. It was basically empty, so we had the run of the place and they had a ball. Here they are dancing with Chuck.

Celebrate! I'm 3!

Back at home we opened family gifts and had cupcakes!

Henry is such a gift giver-he made a card for her and put in a secret pocket with $3 of his money for her (because she's 3 of course!).

Our big gift to her was this "real" baby which has proven to be a winner.:)

Happy siblings!

Sweet 3 year old girl. We love you!

*Ruby is 3*

Our sweet baby turned 3 on July 9th. Hard to believe! This is her first "favorites questionnaire"...I loved hearing her answers! We had lots of fun celebrating her. More on those celebrations soon!  For now, here are her faves.

1. What is your favorite color? Pink, orange, purple

 2. What is your favorite toy? Baby

3. What is your favorite fruit? Orange, peach

4. What is your favorite tv show? Daniel tiger, Pinkalicious

5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Chicken nuggets, pb sandwich, pizza

6. What is your favorite outfit? Shorts

7. What is your favorite game? Hide and seek

8. What is your favorite snack? Goldfish

9. What is your favorite animal? Cat and dog

10. What is your favorite song? ABCs

11. What is your favorite book? Micky Mouse books

12. Who is your best friend? Clayton and Piper

13. What is your favorite cereal? Krispies

14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Swing-Mr. Eugene’s playground (our neighbor), play basketball and run around

15. What is your favorite drink? Juice-Apple, chocolate milk 

16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? Purple blankie, pink bunny and dog stuffed animal (so many stuffed animals...every night is different on what she's attached to)

18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? scrambled eggs, granola bar

19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? some cheese and some eggs and some cakes

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? paint nails (like this-and she shows me)

Annie Party

We had lots of fun celebrating Annie's 5th birthday with a unicorn theme! She had requested the theme long before her bday party was anywhere close, and I was all in with such a popular, easy theme! Very cute, especially if your aspiration is to be a unicorn trainer when you grow up!  

On Saturday May 25th, we had family in early for lunch. Here is Annie all ready for her party!

Hip Hip Hooray!

Bush family came down from Kentucky for the weekend. Aunt Mae is always so good to make a cake for the theme!

Unicorn basket full of candy!

So nice Grandma DeWitt can come down and be part of all our little celebrations. Here is Annie with her gift from Grandma.

Sweet 5 year old girl!

Grandpa and Peggy gave her a new bike-she was ready for the next size up!

 Her old one was way tiny!

Trying out her new bike!

Yay for unicorns! It's cake time!

The table! We just did afternoon swimming and snacks/cake.

Annie and best bud Nora Kate

Henry brought out his snow cone maker and took orders

We had a pinata per the bday girl request!

She got some great gifts from her sweet friends!

Buddies!

The next morning, on her actual bday, we got donuts for bfast!

She opened gifts from us. Henry gets really into making cards, and he even folded up a few dollars and put in there for her. He gets to make $, but her $ earning system isn't quite to the same level has his, so he knows she is always wanting $ and hooked her up! We gave her a cooking kit and and her "big" gift was a (kid friendly) digital camera.

Family stayed until Monday morning. We went to church all together on Annie's bday. These cousins sure do love each other! 

During the week we had our school friends (3 families) over for a swimming play date to continue the celebration! We just ordered pizza and made a few treats. Super easy to have a second party when you've done all the work for the first one! Check out these 3 admirers....some of Annie's best buddies! 

Here's the whole gang! From L to R: Ellis, Henry, Reid, Ruby, Aidan, Connor, Piper, Annie, John Lane...not sure why Owen isn't in that one! He was around!

Annie and Connor

Reid and Ruby...the "R's!"...check out Reid's arm around her. I sent this pic to his mom shortly after and we had a good laugh!

Opening some very girly gifts from all these boys!

We played pin the horn on the unicorn. It was a fun gathering yet again! Happy birthday, sweet Anne! You are blessed with so many family and friends who love you!