I can hardly believe Bella is a whopping THREE years old! We have a three year old. She'd been counting down to her birthday since before Christmas. She would say, "Jesus' birthday, then Lula's birthday, then my birthday!"
As you can imagine, my plan to plan her party didn't really materialize what with working full time, being incredibly uncomfortably pregnant, then having Miss Elin, and then adjusting to life with Elin. So, when Memaw offered up her already purchased luau party supplies and ready-to-go theme, I jumped on it!
On the guest list, of course, was our ABQ family: Jacob, PG, Memaw, and Great-G'ma. Of course her bff's Ravenna & Araya (Josh & Lina) and our extended Seattle family & friends. Grass skirts, necklace & wrist leis, centerpieces, wall decor, butterfly pinata and a Hawaiian lei cake completed our ensemble. Our menu was simple: tropical fruit salad, Hawaiian pizza, chicken dumplings, pina coladas (both virgin and un-virgin), Sweet Onion Hawaiian Chips, tortilla chips with Mango & Peach salsa, Hawaiian rolls... all to fit our tropical theme.
Bella had a GREAT time with her girlfriends. It's so fun to watch them play and at the same time, they can play somewhere in the house completely unsupervised. When one of us checks on them, they insist they are fine and imply that we're intruding on their games! They are at the point where they just play hard until they crash. It's really great to know Bella will grow up with such great friends - they are way too cute together.
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