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Children's Parties in Review

Children's Birthday Parties in Review

. . .of which there have been many in my house!! It is too hard to choose which was my favorite, although I think the Princess & Pirate Party was the best one to date, and perhaps the Princess Pony Party, oh and I can't forget the Petting Zoo Party . . . see I just can't decide! I'm going to highlight the cakes, for which my parties are known! Everyone always wants to know "what will the cake be this year"!!

I tend to go all out for birthday parties for my children . . . mainly because I did not ever get a party, an all out kids party for myself when I was little. I refuse to cheat my children of this wonderful experience. Even though the older I get the harder it is for me to recover (giggles). Cakes are my specialty, each year I seem to improve. At least I hope I am! I always let the birthday child pick their theme and we go from there.

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Elmo cake for my son's 1st birthday - very cute - he hated to touch the frosting!

Elmo everything covered the house

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{2nd birthday party we had an awesome balloon twister, no photos of the cakes(?) or the party(??)}

3rd birthday cake - my son was in love with trains during this age, we had every sort of train you could think of around the house, even one to ride on, with tracks!

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4th birthday party, the new love was SpiderMan - we had just returned from China (literally days before - I was a pregnant(12 weeks) zombie~argh look at my hair - almost all grey-no hair dye at all AND I was skinnier then, pregnant, than I am now double grrrr)

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5th birthday cake - who doesn't love Scooby Doo

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6th Swimming Party with individual skeleton cupcakes

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7th Sledding Party with Jolly Ranger cupcakes

DAUGHTER'S PARTIES

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1st Princess Pony party!

{it's so funny to look at old photos and see what my house looked like and how much I have changed it around today)

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2nd Princess Pony Party in Beijing, China

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3rd Petting Zoo Party

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gift table

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tablescape - click to enlarge

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my hubbie made the castle and pirate ships from cardboard and I painted them

4th Princess & Pirate Party - complete with a treasure hunt! This was the biggest and most planned out party I have ever done and it completely did ME IN!

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5th Pet Shop Party

BABY GIRL'S Parties

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1st Birthday Party - Just Pink & Girly

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2nd My Little Pony Party

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3rd Princess Party

and I was able to recycle the poms and lanterns for this:

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