celebrated kaylee's birthday today with a few friends and my family. [mike's grandma is in the hospital at the moment so the in-laws were not able to come. won't know till monday on what's up with nana's mama as kaylee calls her]
i'm super embarrassed but i totally copied the birthday invitations and idea from this blog. though i'm sure mine was more tedious to make. bought tiny letterpress cards from hobby lobby and had to use painters tape to tape them on regular size paper just so they would go through my ancient printer. i mailed them out in regular note card size envelopes so they wouldn't get lost in the mail.
everyone got a personalized party favor bag made from here. on the back i stamped "thanks for coming to my party! love kaylee" on them. i got the stamp made from here when they had their pay only for shipping special. everyone got the same yummy treats- tiny sweet tarts, tiny m +m's and mini kitkats. the girls also got two tiny nail polishes, lip balm, mini notepad + a mini pen while the boys got a small bag of legos found in the stocking stuffer aisle at target.
the kids ate pizza and breadsticks courtesy papa johns while the adults dined on tiny yummies on two relish trays, tiny bacon wrapped smokies and homemade chili with cornbread. got a big fat compliment from my oldest bro on the chili and said i needed to pass the recipe to either his wife or to mom. he even made another comment to mike on how good it was. of course kaylee requested another krispy kreme donut "cake". i got a number 6 sparkler from our local party supply store for her to make a wish on. after some party games [drop the clothes pin into a jar, how many gumballs in a jar, gumball on spoon race, crabwalk race and hot potato] she opened her presents and went and thanked everyone. even gave big brother a hug.
*fyi: those beer bottles are NOT ham's. he just happened to sit in that chair and the bottles were already there. and the gymboree card is just there to compare sizes.
Aw, Happy Birthday to Kaylee! She's younger than Keira? I can't believe it! She seems so much more mature than K. lol. The cards and those party favor bags are fantastic! Something the kids love to keep as its personalized. Love that banner too! Your Kaylee is sooo beautiful.. I'm so glad she had a great time. That last photo though.. that's a keeper! Have a great Sunday Kristi. : )
ReplyDeleteI got hungry just reading that menu - love all the details esp. those personalized bags!
ReplyDeleteps. CUTE new kitty, too.