Miriam loves planning and anticipating an event as much....if not more than the actual event so part of her gift is that I let her do lots of the work!
She had a piano recital in the afternoon so we wanted to do the party in the morning. Miriam loves donuts and she also loves pajamas so the theme was pretty easy.
We both came up with a vision, but she put together the cards.
Her favorite babysitter, and later two friends helped her make lots of flowers to decorate with.
{this is a photo from the next day}
Her friends also helped her make these cute confetti cups
We were going to have the traditional number of balloons representing the birthday-persons age but it turns out a dozen balloons is cheaper than 10 so she got a bonus.
We were going to have the traditional number of balloons representing the birthday-persons age but it turns out a dozen balloons is cheaper than 10 so she got a bonus.
The cute party guests!
We made lipgloss in donut shape....
We had her favorite babysitter....Sarah come help the girls make polymer clay donut charms.
{one of Miriam's favorite Christmas gifts had been a clay charm book}
Then we played spoons! And tried to play the name game when I realized that the party was suppose to be over and parents would be {and were} coming! I way underestimated the timing on this one. We could have easily gone another hour...and a few of the girls did stay that long!
Which is why there are no pictures of the cute food! We were in a rush!
We had chocolate milk, fruit and got her donuts from Beyond Glaze so they were darling...all different fun flavors. We cut them all in half so the girls could try a couple of different ones. I don't love donuts but these....I don't have much self control when it comes to these.
This party was actually just a continuation of partying from the day before. Mark left to go back to Korea earlier that morning so we had a good-bye party the night before at Little America hotel. Swimming, pizza party, fall into bed exhausted, wake up to the donut party, and then my parents came just as her party guests were leaving for the piano recital!
Miriam had a newly unwrapped headband, fresh nail polish that smelled like toasted marshmallows and new music necklace to wear for her piano recital which made things exciting....she performed really well. My parents took us all the Kneaders afterwards so she ended her perfect day with a chocolate dome.
No wonder there was some heavy let down the next day.
