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Showing posts with label Kate. Show all posts

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Kate's Bake Shoppe Birthday Party

Kate and I decided on a Bake Shoppe theme for her birthday party with her friends.  It was such a cute theme for a bunch of little girls.  

We invited her classmates and the girls from her Daisy troop.  Such a fun group of girls.  






Papa made this awesome frame for the awning and then we covered it with a sheet we already had and scalloped the edges.  I love how it turned out! 


We baked and iced a cake for each girl to decorate.   




Cake decorations ready to go! We also had bags of icing for them to pipe on.  They loved that part! 


Mark made these chef hats out of cardstock and tissue paper.  So cute and super cheap! 


Girly snacks









I made all the girls these aprons out of bandanas! I would have never thought to do that. Thank goodness for the Internet and Pinterest! 


 Cutting out little cupcakes




Putting on aprons and chef hats


Half of the girls decorated cakes while the other half played Bake Shoppe Bingo.  It worked out perfectly! 





The girls were all super concentrated as they worked to decorate their cakes.  




Mark took a picture of each girl with her decorated cake on the cake stand. 


Look at all of those pretty cakes! 







Mark told them to go crazy... and they did! 




We played a fun cake walk game after they decorated cakes.  They walked around on numbers to music and when the music stopped, they stopped on a number.  I chose a number and that person (instead of winning a cake like in a traditional cake walk) got to choose a dance move for everyone to do.  It was hilarious!! Some of the girls (like my own) are crazy and some are so shy.  

After the game, we had snacks and drinks.  


Kate opened presents.  She got so many great things. 





We sung "Happy Birthday" and the girls ate cupcakes. 



The cakes got boxed up for the girls to take home. 



This was such a fun party.  I had a lot of moms text me and tell me how much fun their daughter had, so I'd say it was a success!  Kate had a blast with her friends, too.   I love watching all of them together.  




Sunday, May 25, 2014

My Kindergarten Graduate!

Kate is finished with kindergarten!  What a fast year.  She has loved being a kindergartener.  



I picked her and a friend up from school for a little
"last day of school" celebration.  

This is them with their wonderful teacher!  We could not have hand picked a sweeter teacher for our girl.  Kate ADORED her! 


I took the girls out for ice cream and let them put whatever they wanted on it.  They put way too much ice cream in their cups and topped it with chocolate, sprinkles, gummy worms, gummy bears, cookie dough... and then they basically just ate the top layer and threw the rest away.  Ha! 


Then, we went to The Magic House for a few hours.  





Mark was working at an event with his boss that night, so after I dropped her friend off, I took Kate out to eat.



She is ready for summer! She said that on Monday, she is going to wake up and run through the house screaming, "I'm free!!"  Haha!  We missed her at a lot of playdates this year, so she's ready to be a part of the fun.   

I'm looking forward to the relaxation of summer.  We have a LOT of fun things planned, but there will be plenty of room for sleeping in, lazy days in Mimi and Papa's pool, running through the sprinkler, afternoons spent with friends, late nights, popsicles on the deck... I LOVE summer!! 

ANNNDDD, no more packing lunches or picking out clothes the night before for awhile.  Yahoo!!!!  Maybe on Monday, I'll run through the house along with Kate screaming, "I'm free!!"