Minnie Mouse Birthday!!
We recently celebrated THIS cute gal's birthday. After checking out pinterest, of course, we had narrowed it down to two options and she chose a Minnie Mouse party!! I was completely on board.
AND, while passing out the invites a friend said she had done one for her daughter before and still had CUTE!! decorations (such as the Minnie's Bowtique sign in this pic) that she let me use/borrow, cute bow napkins, a welcome sign and Happy Bday sign all very cute and very Minnie themed. Awesome!!
I'm sure he secretly loves that I involve him in all the kids' bday parties I can.
We had such fun at my brother's wedding photo booth that we had to do one. I made a few Minnie Mouse ears for extremely cheap and my birthday girl gathered up fun dress up stuff we already had. One roll of wrapping paper, the sign and the dress ups was all it took. Fun, adorable, easy and affordable win. My eldest was the photographer and we just set the camera on a tripod and let her go to work. A few days after the party I printed off pictures of each girl with the group, alone or with friends and one with the birthday gal who also wrote her thank-you on the back and passed them out.
These glam gals had a blast dressing up and taking fun pics.
The gathering activity was decorating bags which they all got very into and then we played a rousing game of "Minnie, Minnie, where's the Minnie?" that the girls LOVED (I'd found a Minnie Mouse figurine at the dollar store) and then we headed downstairs where they were free to do the activities at will: photo booth, get their nails painted (with strict rules that only I was to touch and apply the polish. I learned my lesson when B had her 10th polish bday party, Oi.), color Minnie pages and cut their bow out for pin-the-bow-on-Minnie.
I had this draped across the doorway for the bows. I traced bows (using a butterfly cookie cutter I had) and put the rectangle up and they chose from all different papers which they wanted and then they cut them out--which saved me some time cutting. I was going to have them decorate their own bow but thought this may be more fun since we already decorated bags & had coloring pages and I have tons of cute paper begging to be used. I loved that this activity doubled as decorations and this way the next person to pin the bow was chosen by order of the bows which helped it be organized and the girls could see when their turn was coming up.
My older daughter reminded me just before we started that we needed a blind-fold--Duh! and I thought I'd thought of everything, geesh!--and the girls just giggled and giggled about where the bows were going on Minnie. What a fun group of gals we had!
Sampling of the pages they colored courtesy of the birthday girl, whose these are.
These cupcakes were incredibly easy to make. These were actually one of the main reasons we wanted a Minnie party. And we LOVE chocolate cupcakes with whipped cream frosting and then it's just the little and big Oreo's (that bday girl put on) with a bow. Adorably easy and delicious!!
I can't believe I didn't get pics of the favors! They turned out SO cute--and also easy which added to the cuteness!! I did little clear bags with a small bag of pink or purple Skittles (clearance from Easter), Jellie Bellies that were black, white and different shades of pink and pink & silver Kisses (also clearance from Easter). They were so stinkin' cute!
Each girl also got to choose a Minnie necklace that I'd made. I also failed to get a photo of all of them--they all turned out ADORABLE!!--but these are the two my girls chose. Props to this photo for inspiration.
I loved that my birthday girl wanted to and did help with just about every piece of the party. She is just the best. What would I do without her snuggles, love and humor??!
This is the loot from the family that she opened once everyone left and then we did sparklers also in celebration (and because Jeff and I were gone on the 4th and I HAD to still do sparklers with them). I took her out to lunch at Costa Vida (a favorite in large part because of the Horchata) and we'd had a bday party with the hubs family a week or so before so all in all I'd say she had a fantastic birthday. We celebrate her every day but birthdays are so fun to really go all out on while they are young and love it. Plus I have a great excuse to get my craft on (it doesn't happen every birthday but when it does I eat it up)
