Mehlea’s Birthday Party

The day after my niece Bailey’s 1st Birthday Party, Owen and Autumn had another Birthday Party to attend. Party animals, I know. The party was for the kids good friend Mehlea (our next door neighbor) who was turning 4. She had a My Little Pony Party and had her party at Fun City. For all my New Mexico peeps, Fun City is sort of like Hinkle Family Fun Center, they have an assortment of things to do there like bowling, miniature golf, roller skating, etc. They also have this HUGE play area full of obstacle courses and tons and tons of Balls. It was a lot of fun but extremely exhausting!!! The place is ginormous and both my kids were running in complete different directions. I am SO lucky my Mom was there to help me or I would’ve been a nervous wreck about losing one of my kids. Thanks again Mom for running all over the place with me and the kids, you ROCK! Here are some fun pics of our time at the party!

Here are the kiddos with the sweet Birthday Girl Mehlea. She is honestly such a sweet little girl, Owen & Autumn LOVE playing with her and her older brother Andrew who is 6. We scored big time with such wonderful neighbors.

Here is the best visual I can give you of how huge this place is and it still doesn’t do it justice. It’s about 4 levels high, balls everywhere, big ball shooters, ball vacuums that suck them up and then spits them back down and a big slide.

The picture in the middle is Mehlea’s brother Andrew up on the 3rd floor shooting balls at me and his mom Bonnie!

“…..Happy Birthday dear Mehlea, Happy Birthday to you!!!”

 

Such a fun time with our friends. Happy Birthday Mehlea and thanks again SO much for including us in your special day!!!!!

Bailey’s 1st Birthday!

Trend of the New Year, I am so far behind on blogging. After my hospital stay/recovery/my mom here/getting back into a normal routine blogging has taken the back seat understandably so. Any who, while my Mom was in town we had two Birthday Parties to attend and one was my Niece Bailey’s 1st Birthday. I am so glad we all live close enough to celebrate all these big milestones in the kids lives together! Brandon’s Sister and Brother-In-Law live in Parker, CO which is about a 40 minute drive East of where we live. They live in a beautiful subdivision where they have a really cool clubhouse/pool (for summer use of course). They decided to take advantage of the awesome, big, open clubhouse and hosted Bailey’s 1st Birthday Party there. My Sister-In-Law Megan, a fellow Pinterest addict, went all out making Bailey’s 1st Birthday absolutely adorable and super festive in a Lady Bug Theme. It was honestly SO SO SO cute which I am sure felt great after the countless hours she put into planning this special day. Although the kids will never remember their 1st Birthday, I truly believe the 1st Birthday is also a huge celebration for the parents as they have survived the first crazy, unexpected, difficult, challenging, rewarding, life changing 365 day of their lives as new parents. Congrats Megan & Dan you have raised an adorable, happy, sweet, loving little girl, and I am so honored to be her Aunt! 

Warning: You have been warned there are a TON of pictures.

Before everyone arrived to the party, I decided to go around and take lots of pictures of all the wonderful work my sis-in-law put into Bailey’s Party. She is so very talented and everything was impeccable from the decorations to party favors to the food.

I was very honored that my Sis-In-Law asked me to make Bailey’s ‘Happy Birthday’ Banner. She told me what she wanted it to say and gave me free reign to let me design and come up with something special for my sweet Bailey.

Since the light was so bright in the back I didn’t get a great picture of the sign so here is one I took at home when I completed it.

And yes, I sewed the entire thing from each triangle to the applique letters. It took me forever but I was VERY proud of the final product!

The Sweet 1 Year Old Birthday Girl!

My kiddos even dressed ‘in theme’! They had a blast at the party. There was so much to do…

And Owen’s favorite was the game table playing Connect Four…

Isn’t Megan’s outfit adorable?!?!

Left: Me & Aunt Bev. Middle: GG & Papa Nick (Brandon’s Grandparents). Right: Debbie, My Mommy-In-Law, and GG.

….Happy Birthday dear Bailey, Happy Birthday to you!!!!

Yes, she is ALWAYS this happy!

Please don’t mind the smudge of red frosting between Autumn’s eye brows. Lol

 

What a super fun day and boy was I thankful to have my Mom’s help at the party since poor Brandon had to work.

Happy 1st Birthday Sweet Bailey!!!!!!