Rainbow Party Details

The Girl:

skirt by Kayla Echols


The Goodies:

Link to play dough recipe

The Decorations:

The Project:

Decorate envelopes (that I'll use to mail them their shirts & thank you notes)

Tie Dye Shirts

The Cake:

Party Post Here.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Saturday we celebrated Josie's 5th birthday with a party almost as colorful as she is.

I'm a sucker for a theme and this Rainbow Party was so easy to pull off.

Last year's Fancy Nancy Tea Party is still my favorite kid party we've ever done, but this one is a very close second.

I decided to keep it simple.

I decorated with balloons, we did one project, and ate cake.

I think I found a happy medium between "Over The Top Kid Party" and poor Gabriel's "He's Too Young To Notice So Let's Do Nothing Party".

Sweet Josie Girl STILL doesn't like the birthday song.

 Gabriel spent the day charming all the moms.

This party was a total success!

I loved everything about it and Josie had such a great time.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Great

While we were in Ft. Myers Beach we got to spend a lot of time with my Grandparents.

This is my Grandpa. 

Josie and Gabriel call him "Great". 

Which is a name he more than deserves.

How cute are they playing ball together?!?!

It's one of the many memories etched in my mind forever.

And that about wraps up our entire trip.

I've also finally emerged from under the insane amount of laundry that we accumulated during a week at the beach.

That sand really knows how to hang on to baby shorts.

Tomorrow we are celebrating Josie's birthday with a very colorful party!

Be back next week with a billion more pictures!

Beach Bums

The last time I went to the beach, Gabriel was 5 months old.

It was a ton of work.  

Between him crying and Josie being scared of the waves, it was pretty much the exact opposite of relaxing.

This time around was a totally different story.

We had the best time all week.  

The kids loved the sand and the water.  And it didn't hurt that they had the Aunt & Uncle Of The Year to play with.

We stayed at an amazing condo that was so perfect.  

The beach was right up the street and a restaurant up the street had live music every night that we could listen to from the balcony.  

When we weren't at the beach or the pool we were hanging out in our room.

Literally.

The kids passed the Ocean Test.  We can officially restart our beach trips!