Spa Treatment

Evey chose to have a Spa/Makeover party this year.
Not really sure how it happened, but we were
throwing it together 3 days before.  She chose to
only invite a few of her closest friends. It ended up
working rather well!  The dollar store was my best
friend in those few days before and it ended up
having most of what I needed. I thought it would
be awesome for each girl to get her own bath robe.
But this would have required more time for sewing,
or a me willing to fork out over 20 bucks each, ha, I think not!

I wanted everyone to have their own mirror,
and I was worried that would end up being a big expense,
I really wasn't willing to spent more than a dollar
or 2 each so I was really happy the
dollar store had some, and they were pretty cute too!
We also got monogrammed kleenex for each girl
half of at Hobby Lobby. Love that place!!

We kept with the monogrammed stuff and made personalized water bottles.

Pretty cake right! Well...Jon helped me in the
kitchen with all of the goodies,
so we made this , as per Evey's request,
 Red Velvet Cake. But after it was done baking
we set it on the oven to cool, forgetting that
we were using the oven still, so it was hot.
Well after a while and when we went to ice
it with super scrumptious icing,
the cake was all dried out and crumbly.
So Sad!! I went ahead and iced it even
 though Jon ran out and picked up a store bought Red Velvet cake.

We did a fresh finger food dinner for the girls. Lot's of fruit
and see those deviled eggs back there,
we almost didn't make those after all,
which would have been a huge mistake,
The girls DEVOURED them.
Evey also contributed to the cooking and
made zucchini bread all on her own...super delish!

Fruit salsa and cinnamon/sugar chips....mmmm nom nom!

Allowing her facial mask to dry and beautify!

I guess she got a little hungry.

Girl Party Rule # 1: Must be goofy at all times!

At some point during the night the girls were talking about someone's
family tradition of smashing the birthday person's face in a cake.
It just so happened we had an extra cake,
so they gave Evey's face a nice cake mask.
She, like, had to totally redo her, like, make up after that!!
 Funny thing though the girls ended up eating a lot of the
smashed cake because it tasted better than the store bought.
Awww, made me feel good.

A lot of steps are left out of the pictures,
Jon had the other kids watching movies in their room,
and so I was helping them with all of the different things on my own.
I told my sisters how much I wished they would have been here to help,
it would have been so fun!
Anyway, this is soaking feet before pedicures while creating bath salts.

OO lala!
I really love 11 year old birthday parties!
The girls can do most everything on their own,
and move at their own rate, and a 5 hour birthday party flies by,
they had to rush their manicures. But they had a great time being girly!

This is Evey's real birthday with all the family.  Trying to decide which wish to wish for is hard !

Cake #2 We asked Evey what kind of cake she wanted for her family party,
and she said ice cream cake. So we decided to retry the Red Velvet,
but make it ice cream. So while looking for a ice cream to complement the red velvet,
we stopped by the Ben and Jerry's section to check out their new flavors.
One happened to be Red Velvet Cake. Perfect!
Turned out a little messy, but it was Go-ood!

The Party Continues...

One of the things Paris asked for was a build-a-bear,
so we got her a gift card. After her party we went
out to spend the card. She had in mind everything
she was going to get.

She picked a cute little bunny with brown hair and
brown eyes just like her.

Then she decided to give her a heart "beep"as Lex says.

Then she went through the whole process of stuffing the bunny...

...making a wish on its heart...

 

 

...giving it a bath...

...picking out an outfit and shoes. She chose a
Rapunzel Dress and red shoes...

...Dressing the bunny...

...and giving her a name.  She chose Sprinkle,
because it was sprinkling rain outside for her birthday.

Then the ladies at Build-a-Bear had her ring
a gi-mungus bell, and everyone in the store
wished Paris a Happy 7th Birthday.

Gasp!! 60% off at Zales!!
(I just found it amusing that the
sign was so distracting in the shot)
I just like my cute family!!

Then we asked Paris where she would like to go for her
birthday dinner. She said Taco Bell....
Barf! (at least for a special birthday dinner) So we went
for mexican at Los Hermanos (even though we can make
it better at home! That's right Utah you heard me, I cook
mexican food better that your beloved Los Hermanos!!
Even the fried ice cream. Although it was good!)

The chairs were a perfect fit for Paris and her special friends.

Winter was mad...

...Until she got her picture taken.
She likes to look at the happy baby
on the back of the camera.

Lucky number 7

They grow so fast! 7 years ago at exactly 7 am
Paris Jasmine joined our family as a beautiful,
chubby cheeked baby with a head FULL of black hair.

And here we are 7 years later and she's blossomed
into a beautiful, smart, funny little girl.
We love our little Paris!

We woke early to have pancakes, as requested,
and presents and then get ready for her party.

She decided on a flower party this year.  I told her only 12 girls
could come. She had a hard time deciding, so we invited only
girls from her school class and from her church class, except her
best friend which is in neither. I had a lot of different ideas for a
flower party, but we had to keep it indoors. So we did the best
with what we had.

I was going to go for a wedding cake look with white icing and
real flowers, but decided that cupcakes went better with the little
finger food brunch they had.

My mom came over to help me with most of the prep
the night before so it was pretty simple set up in the morning.

When they arrived and were waiting for everyone else,
they colored a big flower picture.

Then they each got to make their own flower hair pretty.

Then they painted a little flower pot that
we later planted a flower in.


While some of the faster painters waited for the others
they tossed "seeds" in to the center of the flowers.

Then they had their little lunch of flower shaped sandwiches,
veggies, and flavored soda grown right in their cups.

Then came the cupcakes... and presents after.

We ended up running out of time and so had to rush
everyone through getting their treat bag, which was
scooping their choice of candy from the candy flower.

It turned out pretty good. Paris and the girls had a
lot of fun and that's what counts, right?!