On Saturday we celebrated this little girl's 5th Birthday.

We have been to many birthday parties this year for her classmates, so there has been talk the whole school year about her own. Every party we left she wanted hers to be exactly the same. Until we went to a local carnival and then she decided she wanted it there. Since we were sure a carnival probably wouldn't be going on the same weekend of her birthday we created our own in our backyard. It was a super fun theme to plan. Every kid that came got a gift bag with their tickets in them and something to put their prizes in.

Our backyard. The weather was perfect.

I really wanted to do a ping pong fish game but Kevin didn't want to get left with 2 dozen goldfish so we just picked up a few for centerpieces.

The Party.

Thanks to my Aunt Sylvia we got a real carnival treat with her popcorn machine, cotton candy machine and bounce house. We had 4 booths. The first was a photo booth. The kids got dressed up and took silly pictures with eachother.

The bounce house.

We picked up the carnival equipment early and it was a great babysitter for

Reese the week before her party.

We had a dart throwing game to pop waterballoons.

Thanks to Megan we had some cute signs. We also had a game to shoot a
ping pong ball off a milk carton using a water gun.


and ring toss
After lunch a silly clown came to do a magic show and balloon animals.



the guests






Thanks to everyone who helped with the twins. They slept through the first half of the party. and woke up to a big suprise. They joined right in and had lots of fun.








Thanks to McKenzie for decorating this cute cake!



She was spoiled with presents

My parents got her a tetherball court and put all 3 girls handprints and

footprints in the cement. So fun!



A big thank you to everyone who helped us make this a special day!

Happy Birthday Reese!
We love you!