For Addie's birthday party this year she wanted her theme to be Alice in Wonderland. She's been asking for that for almost a year -- ever since she saw the new Alice in Wonderland in the theatre -- it's her very favorite movie. So that's what I did -- and it was lot of fun. I wish I had taken more pictures so you could see everything - but of course I didn't. Most of the ones below are from other families cameras. Since the theme was Alice in Wonderland - I decorated with big over sized playing cards for the Queen of Hearts. I put up little signs that said Eat Me and Drink Me on the food. My sister Misty made mini cupcakes that said Eat Me on them too. They were really cute. We had a couple of stations for the kids to do some crafts at. One was Painting the Roses Red - where I just printed off coloring pages of roses and put out some red paint and paint brushes and they painted the roses red. There was also a Mad Hatter station where they could design and make their own hats. I just gave them tons of pipe cleaners and they made them out of that. It was cute to see what they came up with. It was a fun party. We waited to have her party until her baptism day so all of the family from out of town could be there too -- she was very patient - but it was worth the wait - we had lots of fun!
Our Alice -- I made Addie a big blue tutu and Sam's mom helped us put the whole outfit together it turned out really cute - I'm going to try to get her to wear it for halloween next year
her cake -- she always requests for me to make the gooey chocolate cake.........
The adults drinks.......................
the kids drinks (notice they ALL have little drink me signs on them - lots of work :) ........
one of the mini cupcakes Misty make............
the kids watching her open presents -- so exciting!!! :) .............
Addie has been begging me for years for a violin. This year I felt she was old enough to get one and start lessons. We are lucky enough to have Kelly in our family now who plays so beautifully and is willing to teach her. I think I am just as excited about this as she is -- I LOVE the violin. I'm hoping to pick up some skills of my own. :)
Happy Birthday my Addie May!!
6 comments:
I can't ever let my kids see this otherwise they'll figure out I drop the ball every year on their bdays. Good job!
very VERY creative! I would never put that much work into a party.... too lazy:) but i'd definitely hire you!
I call for a violin concert!!
i really miss big family birthday parties - looks like this was really a good one!
p.s. how cool that kelly plays violin - i had no idea!
April you are the master party planner I swear you should go into business with your skills! Happy Birthday sweet Addie, we are sad to have missed yet another fabulous Ward birthday party. I know it's late but we do have a b-day card coming her way! Love and miss you guys.
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