Leah has been celebrating her 11th birthday for almost two weeks now! Her actual birthday was while we were at Disney World, so that was fun of course. Then we had our full day family celebration the day after we got home from Disney. And her final celebration was today.
My mother, the ultimate party planning extraordinaire, enthusiastically planned a 50's Themed party for Leah. She carefully attended to every detail….all I did was send the invitations and purchase the party food. She and my daddy came last night and began the set-up. We did most of it this morning, and here is the result…...
This life sized stuffed poodle was the centerpiece of the "photo-op" area. I took a picture of each guest as they arrived by this little set-up.
Here are a few pictures of the fantastic table setting. The girls just oohed and ahhhed as they saw how cute everything was!
The placemats are records with pink labels glued on the center.
My mama and Leah
(She made Leah's new poodle skirt too, and also brought her a pair of saddle oxfords to wear).
All of the girls
except two who were running a little bit late
The party menu:
pink lemonade, cupcakes with pink icing, chips and dip, and ice cream sundaes.
the girls enjoying their party food
Mims and Pops
The girls played charades for a little while in our den followed by holding a hula-hooping contest. One of the girls hula-hooped for over two minutes without dropping the hula-hoop.
Then they moved outside to play with the jump-ropes my mother gave them. Their party favors were part of the table decor and included a pink jump rope, a slinky, and a bottle of pink fingernail polish.
some of the girls posing
Here are some of them again.
They played tag and on our playground before coming back indoors to watch Leah open her gifts.
We were so fortunate to have pretty weather today.
A big thank you to my mama for planning and executing such a fabulous party. Leah talked about it all day….right up until the time she finally went to bed.
It was a good day.
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