Sunshine Soiree | Birthday Party

What better way to kick off the first day of spring than with a Sunshine Soiree birthday party?

 

Kensington and her little friend, Finley, share a birthday on St Patricks Day.
So Kelly and I decided to throw them a party at the park.

I was in charge of invitations so we took some bday picts of the girls at a cute little neighborhood wall with the word "Sunshine" painted on it.

 

I've been driving by this sunshine neighborhood for the past 2 yrs since we've lived here, and I've always wanted to stop and take the girls' pict by it.  So we did :)

  

(Like I said before, she has room for 1 emotion at a time):

 

PARTY TIME
IT'S SPRING!

We had their party this morning and I thought I better post pictures now because at the rate I'm going, it would never get done if it didn't happen today.



   

 

Now listen here, I realize when you blog parties it always looks like you went WAY over the top and put in too much effort for any kid to appreciate.  But I gotta say, there was no stress and no real plan.  We just kind of gathered some things from around the house this morning and brought them to the park and put them on the table.

Kelly loves to cook so she did the food.  She literally just had a baby-- but that don't slow her down, no sir-eeee!
She did lemon bars, banana pudding, 2 dips, little corn bread muffins with bbq chicken on top, and we had some kid friendly food too.

 

I was in charge of invitations and beverages.  I can handle that :)

And the peeps of course!  It isn't a Bartlett party without some good, processed marshmellowy type of hydrogenated oil infused sugar coated goodie.

 

My friend Lindsey owed me a favor so I scored with this bomb cake.
And it tasted delicious!

Grandma K brought some cookies.

 

This cute little pup (her name is Cupcake) did a fine job licking the sidewalk so we did not leave any traces of crumbs.

Here are the birthday girls staring at their cake:

 

Blowing out the candles:

  

Yum!

  

Yep. I will echo what I said a few weeks ago. 

Life is more fun when you have a friend to bum around with.