Bugsy's Party

Well, I think Miss Bug enjoyed her Minnie Mouse party. I stayed up to 4am trying to get everything done so that she'd feel special on her special day... so I'm telling myself she loved it---and I think she truly did!

The sales gal at Joanne's began cutting the Minnie fabric I picked out to use as a little table runner when she asked me what it was for. I told her that Bug was turning four and I planned to use this fabric as a little runner. She then asked if I planned to make a dress for the birthday girl. My thought's were "Lady, you have no idea how NOT talented I am... so No, I didn't plan on any such thing happening." I told her that I only had two days to throw everything together and I was already pretty behind. But she took the birthday girl and me over to the fabric and told me how easy it was going to be. After the promised coupon she'd find for me, I fell for it. I knew exactly what was happening, but I was okay with it... the dress was for my sweet girl!

So I stitched a seam, added four pieces of ribbon and told her to pose! And she did. And I think she liked it. I was so happy that she felt awesome about her new dress--warmed my heart!

On Friday night we took the kids to this new place in town. It has arcade games, a jungle gym of sorts with slides and neat places to crawl through, and a snack counter. Since she's still a little young for a "friend" party, we wanted to do something fun together as a family. And this was fun!

We also took the babes out to eat. We made the middle three (the ones with allergies) promise to eat the salmon and veggies, and they agreed. We didn't think they'd have a problem with that (SMILE)!

My lapeth runneth over!

My third lovely lady and me at dinner!

Here's one of the reasons I was up 'til 4. I put this baby together. It honestly didn't take long, but by this point I was feeling quite balanced since I had just sewn a dress and pitched a tent (even though I didn't do the complicated version of either of these)! This was her "big" present from mama and dada.

Here's our kitchen table all ready for the birthday girl. I had her little goodie bag all packed so she could open it at breakfast, a birthday hat set out, balloons hung everywhere, and one of two banners I made for the occasion stung across our windows--she loved it all!

I almost forgot abut her ears. We have mouse ears somewhere in this house, but I couldn't find them. So I experimented with looping black (with white polka-dots) ribbon around itself and gluing them to the clips--it worked!

Birthday girl beat me to the tent. I was bummed because I, of course, was wanting a picture of her surprised face upon seeing the tent---but I was sleeping. I was only on my 3rd hour, so I kinda didn't hear anything going on. But it wasn't soon after that I got downstairs and snapped this sweet picture (clutching her new Dora phone)!

Mmmmmm.... sausage for breakfast. She can't eat pork, but we don't even care. Applegate has the BEST sausage ever--I bought one chicken sausage with apple and one chicken and maple. So delicious. I don't even like sausage, but I LOVE these (so not endorsed for this, just love them)!

Interesting story about the cupcake frosting. I was told we had red dye for the buttercream frosting---turns out, yeah not so much. So I soaked the red off of some red colored sugar crystals and ended up with this peachy color. It looked more pink in real life, but it did the job. She like them and that's all that matters!

I always have them pose with their cake/cupcakes! You don't mess with tradition!

We had a family gathering at our house for this party, and they showered our girl with some sweet gifts. She was quite pleased!

We had Granny and Grandpa, Gram and Papa, Aunt Amy and Uncle Mike, Aunt Dee, Angela, our family and my mom in spirit--she was ill. We even had an appearance by Auntie...

She called to wish Bug a very happy birthday. Thanks, Auntie!

I sure hope you had a wonderful birthday sweet Bug. Happy four years!