Birthday Party

This year we decided to let Paige have her party a little early.  It seems like every year and no matter how hard we try otherwise, Paige's birthday always seems to get wrapped up with Christmas.  Kids bringing presents wrapped in Christmas paper, kids missing the party because they have a Christmas party to attend, and not to mention that its cold every year on Paige's birthday resulting in an indoor party.  So after thinking about it and asking around (finding out that surprisingly, there are many kids who have winter birthdays that get celebrated in the summer months) we decided to let her have her party the end of September.   It was still warm outside and way before any of the winter holidays began.  She was so excited.

 

It's a big birthday for her this year.  The only time that she will go from being a single digit to a double digit number.  This won't happen again until she turns 100 going from a double digit number to a triple digit.  So 10 is big at our house.

 

Paige loves paper dolls and thanks to pinterest and a little online shopping we were able to put together a fun little party.

 

We made old fashioned party hats, drank root bear and cream soda from bottles with beautiful colored paper straws. 

We cut out tons of little paper doll clothes for the cupcakes.

Made a fun ombre cake (made out of rice crispies for the gluten free kids) along with a cute little cake top banner from the scrapbook paper we used for the party hats.

The girls played pin the dress on the paper doll, Simon says, pixie stick relay.  We also had a lunch buffet.  We made little chicken sandwiches, pasta salad, fruit salad, carrot sticks, and lots more.

The best thing was the photo booth.  The girls loved using the different props to take pictures.  It was a nice party.  The weather was perfect and it was a nice afternoon.