The night before Allie's birthday I was feeling sentimental. This birthday feels like a bigger deal since she's starting kindergarten next week. I told her it was the last time I'd brush her 5 year old teeth, we said a little birthday prayer, and I tucked a grinning little girl in bed. She had a hard time falling asleep and kept coming in the family room to check to see if her presents were put out. I assured her I wouldn't put them out until she was "upside down in her bed and snoring" (half of the time when I go to bed that's how she's asleep)! Allie woke up a little earlier than usual the morning of her birthday. It was 7am and I told her she could wake everyone else up. That morning we gave her a new watch, a new picture from her room, her new personalized unicorn backpack, and a unicorn barbie.
She requested sticky buns for breakfast. (No pics because I was working on dinner while breakfast was baking!)
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| After lunch, we all spent a little time outside picking up stuff in the yard so Kevin could mow. Hayden came over to me and said "Hey mom, what's this egg?" And it was one of our new chickens (Bunny's) first egg! I don't know when she laid it, but I assumed it had been that morning. All the chickens were in their run all afternoon (I wanted the new ones to not have the option to lay them in the yard, and get them use to using the nesting boxes) and before the party started we ended up getting another tiny blue egg in the nesting boxes! Such a fun surprise on Allie's birthday! |
Allie spent the morning and afternoon playing. Kevin left to go get balloons, I made her birthday cake, and we put some finishing touches on cleaning the house (Kevin spent the entire morning working on the yard and it looked great!)
We invited our family over for dinner. We had a few neighbor kids come over too! I put together a salad bar and served it with homemade rolls and cinnamon and strawberry butter.
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| Topping included: bacon, chicken, diced ham, carrots, cucumber, cauliflower, eggs, strawberries, blueberries, apples, cheese, sunflower seeds, and craisins. |
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| Homemade rolls and flavored butter (strawberry/cinnamon) were my fave! |
Allie LOVES unicorns, if you hadn't picked up on that yet. So, she decided months ago she wanted a unicorn party. She also decided she wanted a naked cake (no icing on the sides) many months ago too. She requested chocolate cake with chocolate icing, but I made some regular buttercream to pipe along the sides. The cake topper is a horse from the dollar tree with a "horn" I super glued on and then painted gold.
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| People got a kick out of their unicorn names ;) Thank, Pinterest! |
The kids ate outside and the adults ate inside. I wanted to sit with the birthday girl so I stayed out with her.
While we were eating, we kept hearing thunder. The skies didn't look bad, there was no rain, so we didn't think much of it. Then our neighbor, Ali, said "Look at the double rainbow!" I mean how cool is it to have a unicorn party with rainbow colors, and then there be a rainbow during your party?!
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| Clearly Allie was excited about it! |
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| I decided after Kevin spent so many hours working on the yard, we should put the chickens up in their run. They like to visit us on the patio and then poo on it , and that's not really very welcoming to party guests. I felt bad keeping them put up, so I gave them lots of dinner scraps and they loved me once again. |
Cute party goer pictures :)
Allie was so excited to open her gifts. She got some cute clothes, cute toys, and her new lunchbox and lunch accessories, among other things :)
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| My sis offered to take our picture and I never think to do these things until after the party is over, so I was very happy to get this pic! |
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| When we all started singing "Happy Birthday," she got all smiley and loved it. |
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My brother and his family
Other party goers |
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Someone snuck in to the cake while we were staying our thank yous and byes....
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| Happy Birthday Allie baby! We love you! |
