Julia turned five (!) this year and for this birthday we decided to have a large birthday party. The Ramiro's wanted to have a get to together this month to celebrate all the April birthdays in the family, so we invited all the Ramiro's to come. As far as kids, Julia also had a friend from preschool, two friends from California that now live in Utah, her two Wheat cousins who were in town, and three of my cousin's kids from the Sandberg side. We had all the kids come early to do crafts and games and then had the adults come later for a BBQ.
Julia decided that she wanted a Disney Frozen themed birthday. Not a big surprise since she lives Frozen nowadays, but she did just decide it the week before, at first she wanted My Little Pony. Julia helped me make paper snowflakes and cut out strips of paper with quotes from the movie as decorations. We hung those up with pink, blue, and white crepe papers and balloons (but half the balloons were tied outside and blew away). For crafts we decorated foam crowns (Julia is wearing her crown in one of the pictures from the party below). We also did painting with Epson salts, which makes the picture look like it has little crystals when it dries (I didn't take any pictures of this part because I was still making her cake as they were doing this).
Then we played pin the nose on Olaf. My cousin Daniel drew Olaf for me which is a good thing because he did a lot better than I would have done!
I think James and Tyler tied, they both got it right on the nose!
We were happy it worked out that Robert's brother David and his family were in town at the same time as the party. Robert Mom, his sister Lauren and her husband and another cousin, Woody, and his wife were all able to come too, so we had a good representation from the Wheat side as well.
After games we had a Frozen theme pinata to wrap up the game portion of the party.
Everyone who wanted got a second try at the pinata. After Julia's second try she started to cry when we made her pass the stick onto the next person because she was afraid someone else besides her was going to break it and she wanted to be the one to break it.
Micah was so excited to get all that candy. He
loves candy so I have to keep it all out of sight or he will keep asking for it.
"Die Elsa, Die!"
Aunt Jen made Julia this cute Elsa dress that Julia just loves. Good thing too because the Disney Elsa dresses are, no joke, going for $200 on Amazon. We found out in preparing for this party that Frozen toys are in high demand but short supply, so prices on Amazon are jacked way up and you can hardly find some of the other toys elsewhere.
Julia performed "Let It Go" for everyone during dinner. It was epic. (and maybe kind of a little crazy that she is so obsessed?) She is standing behind the couch because there was a coffee table tucked back there when we pushed the couches aside to make room for more tables. Julia insisted on using it as her stage.
We had to go to four different stores to find that Anna toy. We were looking for an Elsa toy but couldn't find her anywhere. I made the ice out of sugar, corn syrup, water and food coloring.
She insisted on facing the cake towards
her so she could see the decorations.
Camden joins in on the fun.
Post party crash?
Okay, I have to admit this is mostly so you can see the decorations in the background since we didn't have any pictures of the decorations =).
Snowflakes
Opening presents. I stepped away to feed the baby and when I came back Julia had a pile full of new toys. Since I didn't see who everything was from, thanks to all who came, and all who gave Julia presents!
This one is from this week. One of the presents she got was a kit for live caterpillars that we keep and watch turn into butterflies. They came in the mail last week as teeny tiny caterpillars and we have had fun watching them get big. Now they are turning into chrysalises, and next week they will be butterflies!
