The Birthday Party

Little girl turned 4 back in July and I am just now getting around to posting all the photos from her party. We had a sweet little party with family here at the house. Gerald grilled his famous "GT burgers" and hot dogs. Our awesome neighbors brought over some shrimp kabobs. My mom made the birthday cake, and I broke out the snow cone machine. I was just going to reuse the decorations from the baby shower I threw for my friend a couple weeks before, but little girl was having none of that. She wanted everything to be pink, and so the day of the party I threw together some decorations using dollar store balloons and pink paper I had on hand. She was very happy, and I was proud of myself for not going crazy with decorations as I've been known to do in the past =)

Pretty pink decorations hanging on the fireplace.

Little girl with her best friend and cousin. There are lots of funny pictures of them posing in all kinds of hilarious ways. They are a riot together.

Little girl was very specific about how she wanted her cake to look this year. She saw a picture of this "cake" in a magazine way back in February. She came running down the stairs announcing: "mommy, mommy, this is the cake that I want for my birthday party this year." Well, this little girl doesn't forget a thing and she knows what she wants. So come July, she had me rip out this page from the magazine and send it to my mom with a handwritten "note" asking Grandma to make this cake for her birthday. The only change she wanted was for the bottom layer to be purple instead of blue (big surprise there).

 My mom did an awesome job making the cake look just like the picture...even down to finding tall white candles for the cake.

 I think you can tell from the pictures that she was very pleased with her cake =)

Opening up her presents. She is one blessed little girl!

She received two new pairs of Toms from her Aunt Lindsey...this kid is cooler than me now =)

Me and my little girl. I had fun getting her all ready for the party. We went shopping together at the mall for the outfit she is wearing, and then I curled her hair and did her nails.

Little girl and her cousin blowing out the candles on the cake together. We had to let her do it four times since she is four.

Yep, it tasted as good as it looked! Happy birthday little girl!