Valentine's Day

We sure love Valentine's Day around here but this year Afton was old enough to really love it. She started decorating the front room just after New Year's. She started cutting out hearts to hang up and drawing pictures to tape on the walls and pretty soon every wall, plant, and door was decorated. Grandma Sandy is always good about helping with paper and stickers and every Wednesday when Afton came home from gymnastics she had more fun stuff!

With the excitement of this holiday approaching and Afton's confinement due to baby girl I finally agreed to let her have a party. I told her she could invite 3 friends and she was in charge of planning. She was so excited!!

She planned and planned and planned....

She invited Brooklyn, Annie, and, Savannah

The itinerary - 

1. Crowns

2. Bingo

3. Cookies

4. Heart toss

5. Animals

Our practice crown

The girls laughed so hard playing this game. Each girl had a different colored piece of paper and they took turns trying to throw it into the heart. It was fun to watch! Lots of giggles!!

Annie

Savannah

Brooklyn

Afton's decor. She worked so hard on the decorations!

My sweet Mom came over to help in case Maya woke up (which she didn't) and as always she took some amazing pictures! Thanks Mom!!

Afton's 5th birthday party with friends

Afton is such a good party planner and her birthday was the perfect excuse to plan something great! A blue and yellow bird party was what she'd had in mind for months!!

She had a few friends over to celebrate!

The cake - yellow frosting with blue sprinkles. Yellow and blue bunting with blue paper birds on each end..

The bird masks in varying shades of white, blue and yellow...

Cheerio birdfeeder necklaes...

Gummy worm favors with a blue or yellow birdie attached to each one...

Of course a glittery, sparkly #5 for my birthday girl along with a fun blue banner and her name in 

glitter paper...

A little bluebird from Grandma Sandy along with some birdie crackers...

The gang...

Jocelyn, Kaymie, Brooklyn, Annie, Rosalie, AFTON, Savannah, Livy

Hugs and loves from Grandma Sandy who came to help...

Duck, duck goose...

Going away party for Kira

This little going away party was so much fun and so sad at the same time. Kira was moving away and will be missed. Everyone pitched in on the food and I loved getting the house decorated and ready.

Kira is so wonderful and kind and her daughter Addie was in the neighborhood preschool with Afton. I know we'll stay in touch but it won't be as good as having her across the street!

I am loving banners right now. This is the 3rd one I've had hanging in the kitchen this month!

 Fresh flowers from the yard!

 Me and Kira

 Becky and Kira

Memorial Day

Memorial Day seemed like a great day for a BBQ so we called the Keetch's and had them come over!
We had the kids brings their bikes, scooters, motorized toys, and whatever else they wanted for the trail and everyone had fun riding around, eating yummy food and spending time together!!

Brett's chopper landed on the roof and he and Afton managed to finally get it down through her bedroom window. Yikes!!

Afton's Pink Party!

Afton's birthday party was WONDERFUL! I LOVED IT! I decided to have a pink theme to celebrate the fact that I have a little girl. My mom was so proud. I even wore pink!

I was obsessed with planning Afton's party and spent time looking on blogs, wandering craft stores, and working on treats, tags, and decor. I had so much fun and couldn't be happier.

We had her party in Lehi at Wines Park and the weather was beautiful. Her birthday isn't until the 8th of October but due to family complications we had it a couple of weeks early.

Family and friends came to celebrate, eat lunch, talk, laugh, and enjoy each others company! I'm so lucky to have such a wonderful support system!

Thanks to everyone who helped out! Everything was beautiful and delicious! Mom - your cupcakes look like they came out of a magazine and Loni - I ate all of the extra sugar cookies! Whoops! They were so good!

And...did you figure out what the pink paper from the previous post was for? Tags! They turned out so cute!

I love this next picture. Afton had just arrived and was so excited to see everything on the table! The photo after that shows her looking at all of her pink balloons floating above!