Alana's Birthday Party

Alana's birthday started out with her big birthday surprise! She stayed the night at Grammy's house on Thursday night and Arnold worked all day Friday putting it together. Alana came home Friday night and since it was dark did not see it in the yard. Saturday morning we were able to surprise her with her new playhouse swing set! She was kind of shocked, surprised and excited all at once! This was her big birthday gift from Arnold and I, My Mom and Dad and Mary and Shelly. She will get a lot of use out of this.

The theme of the party was jungle animals. This is Alana and her best friends Campbell and Monet at the jungle animal craft table. There were jungle animals to color, jungle animal stamps, stickers and paper to make pictures. The kids loved it and were really creative.

There was plenty of free play time on the new swing set!

Everyone enjoyed chips and dip and a lunch of hamburgers, hot dogs, french fries and salad. Yummy!

After lunch there was a monkey pinata!

This is Alana's personal cake! My sister decorated it, isn't is awesome!

Everyone else got cupcakes! I decorated these! They were so yummy!

And then there were presents!!

Sutter, Carrie, Jessica and my Dad and Steve in the background. Watching the pinata.

Jessica with her adorable boys, Jason and Anthony.

My mom, sister, Mary and Shelly enjoying their cupcakes!

Alana loves party hats, so she got her brother in on the action. They are so cute!

Alana had been anxiously anticipating this day for weeks now! She truly had a blast and loved every minute of it! Thank you so much to all of our friends and family who were there to make it such a special day! She had no nap and was way over tired, at the end of the day she was ready to cuddle up in her new hippo jammies and Where The Wild Things Are book that she got from Campbell and Monet and her new favorite doll The Cabbage Patch that Uncle Steve got her. It was a perfect day!