Lilly's birthday party was on Sunday afternoon at 3:00. Luckily it was over by 6, but even though the party was short (or just long enough) it was a long week leading up to it. This is the "before" photo. Lillian wore a cute little Birthday Girl dress. Sophia wore a Big Sister shirt, but as usual, I wasn't able to get a decent photo of the girls in their shirts next to each other. Will was off work the week leading up to the party and watched the girls for me while I did party preparations. I made most of the food on Saturday. The menu included burgers and hot dogs, capris salad, black bean salsa salad, potato salad, fruit salad, a watermelon tray and a veggie tray and one enormous, delicious, beautiful strawberry "Lilly" cake.
We had about 60 guests. Half were adults and half were kids and small children. They all loved the pinata, side walk chalk, jump ropes, and the scooter that we brought along for entertainment. We were also lucky enough to have a small play area next to our pavilion.
On Saturday I picked up 25 balloons for decorations. I also bought crepe paper and wrapped each post and used matching table covers. On Sunday I opened the back of my minivan and the balloons flew away. All 25 of them. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to cry...but I kept it together!
One of our young neighbor girls took my camera and took all of the photos. Click here to see them. Thank goodness she was taking pictures for me because I was kind of busy talking to everyone. Will and I both had a great time. We hired a babysitter to tend to Sophia and we brought Lilly's high chair so she wouldn't have to be held the entire time.
Speaking of Lilly, this is the "after" photo:
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