Makenna’s Birthday Party, Part 1

Makenna finally had her birthday party today (we were only 10 days after her birthday this year—we are getting better!). We didn’t have it on her actual birthday because we wanted Austin to be able to help out with Max. So that left doing it on a Saturday. But the next Saturday was the Relief Society Conference and then the next I had a baby shower to attend… but today was finally a day that worked for us!

This year we had a Fairy party. For the invitations, we made a fairy doll:

 

The inside opened up to a pop-up fairy:

(The back of the fairy had all of the party info on it, but I’m pretty sure I don’t need my address, phone number, and e-mail address out there for the world to see!)

I had a retreat this weekend for all of the Young Women Camp directors, so I had to set up all of the decorations for the party on Thursday and Friday morning before I left.

The front door:

 

On the back of the front door:

Decorations in the front room:

In the front room we had our “Fairy Forest”:

 

Decorations in the dining room/kitchen:

     

Waiting on the table were goody bags with a Tinkerbell coloring picture on them, Tinkerbell stickers, and crayons:

The food table:

Decorations in the livingroom:

The presents area:

The “Pretty Pixie Salon”:

Finger nail polish, eye make-up, lipgloss:

Fairy Crowns:

For each of the fairies, we had a tutu and fairy wings. Makenna, as the birthday girl, got to pick which ones she wanted first.

She, of course, picked a pink skirt:

We were able to get her name put on her fairy wings:

On the fireplace, we laid out all of the other tutus and wings for the girls to each choose her favorite:

  

Also in the kitchen we had a basket of Makenna’s “thank you” gifts for her friends who attended her party:

Stay tuned for party 2—the party itself!