Lily is sooo having a Pinkalicious Birthday Party!

Well it would not be a proper birthday party in the Murphy house if I did not start planning like 10 weeks in advance right?

I started asking Lily what she wanted to do about her party about 2 weeks ago. She wanted Kim Possible and I wanted to do an official tea at Gracie's English Tea Room. I was thinking what in the world I could do for a K.P. party. She met her at Disney world a few months ago and fell in love. I looked up some stuff online and got a few ideas but was thinking the party would be best for someone aged 6 or 7 and not 3.

I was driving home today and viola, I had the brilliant idea that we could do a Pinkalicious party. If you are not familiar and have a little girl, I highly recomend getting this book. They also have the Musical, probably in New York (I don't know) which is out of the question for us.

Anyway, Lily loves this book and was thrilled when I told her about the party idea. I gave her the K.P. choice again just to see what she would say. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "no way, I want Pinkalicious of course".

I checked out some sites for ideas, even though I had already jotted down a few I thought of, and got some really good ideas.

1. Girls must wear all pink, will give pink boas as they walk in

2. We will serve all pink food (but will have 1 table with "green" food)

3. We will decorate pink cupcakes in our pink aprons (will try to have monogrammed)

4. Will definitely read the book to the girls

5. Pink peonies (sp?) on all the tables

...... still looking and thinking.

I found the cutest blog though featuring an interview with the authors. (precious)

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2006/11/our-pinkalicious-cupcake-interview.html

The Party! Sean's 5th Birthday!

Our sweet boy will soon be 5 years old. We will be at Disney World next week for his big day so we had his party before we leave.

If you know us Murphys at all then you know that we love to celebrate our kids and we love to entertain......

This year he wanted Toy Story! I was a little apprehensive at first. Every where I looked I was coming up empty handed. I was looking for the specific theme. Then I decided to watch the movie again and get creative with it. So, I dove right in and tried to make it work. I found that he already had many of the toys from the movie so we would use some of those to decorate with. I went to Party City and found the little green army men, sheriff's badges, little tiny barrels of monkeys, little magic 8 balls and many of the toys from the movie. We got a costume for Buzz off eBay and I made the Woody vest and hired a couple of AUM theatre students to play the part of Buzz & Woody.

We recreated "Pizza Planet" in the kitchen. I Foiled out the windows and had glow stars on the walls and had the ceiling totally covered with shooting stars and had black light for the really cool effects. It was a huge hit. (sorry, I had no pictures of that at all) I borrowed much of this from a friend and we had pizza delivered from Papa Johns!

For games... We already had the blocks for the "Buzz's block stacking contest" and all the Mr Potato heads and body parts for the "Mr Potato's crazy mix up game". We had a friend get us some traffic cones and had an obstacle course! We had a few other games and Emilie made a sign that said "Woody's waterin hole" and put it above the drink table. Julia decorated the cake in the "Andy's Room" theme (see picture at the end) . The tables were decorated in reds and browns for Woody and greens, purples and silver for Buzz. Sean said it was the best birthday ever and everyone seemed to have a great time.
Sooooooo, We are looking forward to next year, or I guess Lily's in December. That gives me about 6 months to rest up. Hummmm!

Lily's 3rd Birthday Cinderella party

Cinderella arrives in her peasant clothes

Trying on the glass slipper