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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Liam's 5th Birthday Party

We celebrated Liam's fifth birthday for an entire week (lucky little boy). First with our extended family, then with our little family of four, and then with two of his friends.

For his family party we invited his grandparents, aunts/uncles and first cousins. Liam has been obsessed with the Trolls movie and Trolls movie soundtrack so it had to be a Trolls themed party!



Most of the trolls on this table were MINE FROM THE 90's!! A big thank you to my mom who saved them in her basement all these years. And now they're 'cool' again!


Sneaking in some snacks...

It was warm enough to play outside for a bit!

Our big FIVE year old!

Of course the kids had cake pops AND cake.

Liam got some cool gifts, including more Magna-Tiles to add to his collection!

The morning after the party. I love that all of the cousins are so close in age :)

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On the day of his birthday Matt took off of work and we did fun stuff all day:

Birthday breakfast (Liam's choice) of scrambled eggs, strawberries and fresh blueberry muffins.

He opened his gifts from us: a big set of colored pencils

And a Troll

We spent the morning at Possibility Playground.


The lake was beautiful.

That afternoon we walked to Vollrath Park to fly kites

A boy and his kite.



And ended the day with singing and CAKE!

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A few days later Liam had a couple of friends over to celebrate one last time.
Party games and sweets!


Happy 5th birthday Liam. You are the coolest little boy we know, so full of love and energy. You amaze us each day with your stories and creativity. We love you so, so much - Mom-Dad-Chloe



Check out all of his prior birthday parties here:


Friday, July 22, 2016

Chloe's 2nd Birthday Party

This summer has been busy! And my blog has gotten shoved to the side because of it. But I'm back and I have so many cool summer moments to share with you.

So let's backtrack to Chloe's birthday...which was way back in April!

We celebrated Chloe's second birthday with a birthday party attended by family.


This beautiful little girl woke up happy and ready for her party

On your birthday you get to eat Cool Whip with breakfast...


I can't believe our sweet little girl is two years old already!









The theme was rainbows...


Take-home treats for the kids


Rainbow craft station for the kids



Proud big brother Liam


And of course a rainbow cupcake cake...


And rainbow food...




Lucky little girl with her gifts...




A card from cousin Bella...


Her gift opening helper, cousin Hudson


New shades from grandma


Aunt Becky wishing Chloe a happy birthday via Face Time 


Cake time!
She was pretty tired at this point in time




Getting a little help blowing out the candles from cousin Rylan and Liam






Happy birthday to our little sweetie. Our little peanut. Our little cutie.
You are so full of life and love. We are so lucky to have you as our daughter.

Love,
Mom and Dad

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See Chloe's 1st Birthday Party here
See Chloe's 1st Birthday Interview here
See Chloe's 2nd Birthday Interview here

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Liam's 4th Birthday Party

We celebrated Liam's 4th birthday a couple of weeks ago. We had about 35 family members to our house for an afternoon of food, games, gifts and cake! I feel blessed that so many people showed up to help the little man ring in his 4th year of life. Thank you to everyone that came & surrounded him with love!

Liam picked his birthday party theme again this year. He chose robots.

I'll let the photos do the talking:


A shiny new bicycle helmet was hiding inside this box...
A bicycle will arrive sometime this Spring :)


The morning of his party Liam woke up and wasn't feeling well (fever, puked the night before). Here he is just hanging out, watching TV.



I set up a little robot-decorating table for the kids. Stickers, pipe cleaners, google eyes and print outs.
My niece Bella, no joke, decorated like 15+ robots.



And what's a birthday party without an EPIC BREAKDOWN five minutes before guests arrive?
(I see this and laugh, yet feel so bad for him at the same time!)


And then he calmed down and I got a few photos...





He posed with Chloe....and then another mini-meltdown with Mom...


I made these little robots as party favors for the kids. Mandarin orange cups for the heads, bubbles or Slinky's for the bodies and an assortment of goodies for the robot parts.





In the weeks leading up to Liam's Robot Party the four of us made our own homemade robots out of recycled bits, glue, stickers and paint. Here's the robot that I created, complete with spice-container-lid-mouth and yogurt-cup-arms!


And here are the rest. Liam is SO proud of his robot!



And let the party begin...


              My nephew & his sweet girlfriend        Matt's aunt Luci and the newest family member, Nico

                          My niece Bella                                     My sister-in-law Nici and nephew Rylan


                       My nephew Hudson                                           Liam's grandma and Nana

                       Cousins eating lunch                                                 Cousin-in-laws


Playing a couple of games...



Chloe attempting to steal the entire bowl of cheese corn...



Lots of yummy snacks, including Jello robots.



And lots of gifts for the lucky birthday boy.









I made this cake. I found a few ideas on Pinterest, but I pretty much winged this myself. Fruit roll ups, Oreos, Reeses' Pieces, Dots, wafer cookies and candy orange slices make for yummy robot parts!


Liam was not feeling well once it came time to sing happy birthday. But he was a trooper!


I'm sure everyone at the party was thrilled when he blew those sick germs all over the cake! 


Love = letting your cousin lick the frosting off of your birthday candles too.


And the morning after the party...

                 Donuts (and fruit) for breakfast!                                         My niece Caroline
              Playing Candy land with grandma                                      Chloe and Hudson 


Happy 4th Birthday Liam. We love you more than you will ever know!
Mom, Dad and Chloe


Links to previous birthday parties: