Maia's Fairy Birthday

Maia recently had her 5th birthday party and it was a big one, let me tell ya. Poor Elsie had heard us talking about Maia's birthday for so long, that everything she saw that she wanted she would say "It's for my birthday Mom." She still says that, it's so funny! Anyway, Maia wanted to have a Fairy birthday party, so that's what we did. We started making the list of who she wanted to invite, and somehow it kept growing and growing. I thought for sure that some of the girls wouldn't be able to come, so I let her invite everyone that she wanted to. Welllll...all but ONE came. So we had FIFTEEN little fairies running around here. It was chaos in a good way and Maia was in heaven. My friend Tiffany and I stayed up SOOOO late the night before getting ready. Like 3:30am late. I couldn't have done it without her!! Thank you so much Tiffany! She helped me get all the decorations set up, figure out how to arrange everything, and all the other last minute stuff. It's just always nice to have a second opinion on things and an extra set of hands. And I will apologize now for the overload of pictures, but hey, this party was kind of a big deal:)

Here's how the party went: The girls arrived and we ate a very fairy lunch...The pictures don't even do the decorations justice!! It looked so magical and pretty. (just try to block out my ugly kitchen in the background:) The girls loved it.
Peanut butter sandwiches sprinkled with a little fairy dust:)
Pink marshmellows and grapes and wafer cookies...
Eating lunch outside ( I was so thankful the weather was nice enough to go outside!)
After lunch, we split the girls into 3 groups and they rotated through 3 stations
1. Pin the Wand on the Fairy

2. Don't eat the Fairy! game
3. Face painting


Then they came back together in one big group and we held the "Fairy Coronation" meeting, where they each came up to the front of the room, received a new "fairy" name, a set of wings, a sprinkle of fairy dust, and a fairy crown. Then the were real fairies.
Here they are waiting for the coronation to start..
The wings, and chair where they would be dubbed a real fairy...
David was in charge of the sprinkling of fairy dust and the placement of the crown...
They each got a card that showed their new fairy name and their picture taken in the fairy chair:) Maia likes to pull this funny face....
After they had become real fairies, they had a little parade in our backyard where they marched around the yard and chanted "I Believe in Fairies!" It was so funny.
Then they came in for cupcakes and ice cream..
This was Maia's birthday cupcake from this local cake store here. Super delish (it was a pumpkin spice cupcake) I was really happy when she didn't want to finish the whole thing:)
Then it was time for presents...I love how excited everyone gets! Maia definitely got lots and lots of fun new things! I'm thankful that she shares so well with Elsie or it would have been a hard day for little Elsie Belsie.
Then it was time to go home, whew!! Here are the party favors they went home with: a little bottle of fairy dust (glitter of course! The parents loved me I'm sure of it haha!)
and an edible rice krispy fairy wand...
Now if you've made it this far, I'm impressed and I'm sure you're exhausted!! Can you imagine how tired I was after it was all over??? But it was so worth it. Later that day, Maia just came up to me out of no where and gave me a big hug and said "Thank you for my birthday party Mom." She is such a sweetheart and I'm glad she had such a fun day. I sure love that girl!

On her real birthday, we started it out with breakfast in bed. You may think this is a really lame breakfast, but believe me, it was just what she wanted. I let my kids pick "junk" cereal for their birthday. She had been thinking about it for weeks. Every time we went to the grocery store, she would look at the cereal and think about what kind she was going to pick for her birthday. It was a tough decision, but she ended up going with Fruit Loops.
Maia's big birthday present this year was a new bike. She needed one so bad! We found this one and fell in love with it immediately. It is a little big, but she can actually ride it really well (I was really skeptical, but David kept telling me she would be able to do it and she did!) And plus, it gives her plenty of room to grow into it.

My girl is 5 years old. Wow. She is growing up too fast.