Friday, November 15, 2013

Birthday-ween

It’s the last day Ally is 6. Some how each year seems so monumental now. But wow 7 years old.

Grandma Debbie, Poppy and Aunt Beth all arrived to help with party prep and celebrate with friends tomorrow.

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Ally’s class went on a field trip to the firehouse during school, and then afterschool I brought her and Erik to swim lessons. These two are always wearing stripes! They were so cute in their matching shirts and fire fighter hats!

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After swimming it was home – we made party popcorn first. Grandma Debbie and Ally had fun drizzling the white chocolate on popcorn.

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Then it was time to sprinkle the sprinkles on the chocolate coated popcorn! Ally shook the shaker so much sprinkles were going everywhere!

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So much fun! Then Friday night movie night started – as usual a B.arbie movie was on the schedule. Grandma and Aunt Beth watched with Ally while Becky, DAviD and I worked on the cake.

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A few weeks ago Ally drew us a picture of how she envisioned the cake looking. First I made a vat of white buttercream frosting and frosted the 3 layer yellow cake.

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Then Becky got to work on it. We had rainbow twizzlers, mini marshmallows and cut up slivers of a blue gummy worm for the raindrops.

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Ally was delighted!

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After dinner it was time to blow up over 100 balloons! The rainbow arch had 10 each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue & violet balloons. Poppy blew up almost all of the 48 “snowball” balloons for the snowball game we’re playing.

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The finished product came out AWESOME! Soon after it was time for bed and Ally had a blast sitting with her grandparents and have them read books to her.

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