Her First Friend Birthday Party

So the party ended up being a princess party, even though we had picked a purse cake to make and then tried to build off that. Then I found princess invitations that were cute and then a friend mentioned her daughter wanted to wear her princess costume and I thought, "How fun would that be!" The girls can dress like princesses if they want and the boys can come as princes or knights. So it took off from there. This was Olivia's first party that we invited her friends. Her other birthday parties were with family except her 1st I think there were my friends and family but she can't remember that. I think everyone had a great time.

On the present table I put out pictures of her from each year of her life. I loved looking back at her one year picture. She was so little and cute.

I got the ideas for the the pom pom tissue flowers from another blog I read and the instructions to make them are here. They are pretty easy.

The sign on the back wall says Happy Birthday Olivia. I also got the idea from that blog but her's were better because you could read it. Mine were harder to read because I could only find white chip board to use. Oh well!

The purse cake Olivia picked from this site.

Here they are decorating foam wands with jeweled stickers, they turned out really cute.

The cute boys at the party coloring their knights and horses made of wood.

Playing Pin the Princess in her Castle Window

They were having so much fun giggling at each other walking to find the window.

Time for the Pinata. I was so thankful it was a beautiful day. I blindfolded them but a lot of them were so little that they barely hit it very hard. I should have just let them hit it without the blindfold. I let the oldest girl have a whack at it without the blindfold and she finally got it open.
This picture cracks me up. You have to click on it to make it bigger and look at all the kids in the line. Most of them have their eyes closed and I'm not sure why. It happened like this in several pictures. Were they scared the candy might fly their way? Were they pretending they were blindfolded like Katie? And it's not like each of them told the others that they were closing their eyes but they all did it. I'm perplexed.

This one is great too. Look at them cheering Audrey on! Olivia's arms are up and they were all getting into it and really yelling for her to hit it. It was hilarious.
SCORE!!
The princess and her cake

Make a wish
Present time- Can you believe they are still making Lite Brites, I was so excited when she got this because I want to do it with her. It brings back memories. I LOVED my Lite Brite. She got some really great presents, thanks everyone.

Pictures with her friends and some of the wands they made

The next two pictures were from over a week ago. My mom and dad came down for a few nights to give Olivia their presents for her. So she definitely had an extended birthday this year. For some reason there are no pictures with grandma and grandpa, they had to leave earlier than they thought so maybe that's why. And a big thank you to them for helping me financially with Olivia's birthday party. That was a great present for her too.