Happy Birthday Savannah!

So this post has tons of pictures because we just had Savannah's 3rd Birthday Party! That's right my baby is 3, the time has gone by way too fast, I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I have a 3 year old. Savannah is your typical girly girl so we of course had a Pinkalicious Birthday party. Have you heard of the book? Its one of Savannah's favorites next to Fancy Nancy.I made all the decorations cause that's just something I actually enjoy doing. I probably set up for her party for at least 4 days, once I'd get something finished then I'd hang it up. Every morning when Savannah woke up she'd run into the living room and kitchen to see what new things there were to see. Then she'd climb in bed with me and say, "Thank you for my birfday, its so beautiful!" We had over all of Jacob's family and some of Savannah's little friends, this year Savannah even got a bounce house for her party. It was a hit.

We still had the pom poms hanging from Olivia's birthday so we left those up and added a pink garland which is just  yarn and I mad a fabric banner.

I attached flowers where each flag met and had pink ribbon along the top and used the same yarn on the light to hang with the banner.

This was my splurge item, I found these cute lanterns at the party supply store by our house, my favorite part about them is you can use a battery to turn them on instead of using an outlet so you can use them anywhere.

 

In addition to the fabric banners I also made ones with scrapbook paper and cut it into circles and strung it with more pink yarn.

 
In addition to the yarn hanging from the light in the kitchen I also hung some from the light in our living room.

I copied the idea I had for Olivia's birthday and hung ribbons from the window in the kitchen.

I found this cute sheer ribbon with flowers in it and used that to pull the curtains with and I used it around some of the glass containers on the food table.

For me no party is really complete till you add flowers, I love flowers. I saw these cute things in our pantry and Jacob got quite a kick out of it when he asked me why I had used cheese graters as flower holders and I told him I didn't know they were cheese graters when I decided to use them. I think they're perfect.

Here is our yummy food table, we had pink and green food to go along with the book. Our pink food was our junk food, we had pink whoppers, pink marshmallows, and oreo's with pink filling. Our green food was more healthy, grapes, cucumbers, and broccoli. I also made this yummy strawberry mint punch.
 
 We also had yummy pink cupcakes because that's what starts all the mess in Pinkalicious anyway.

All the kids loved the bounce house and even Olivia got a turn inside.

Savannah was so excited when we were all singing to her, she even sung along and blew her candle out and everything.

My cousin's wife Cheryl even got Savannah a Pinkalicious doll, Savannah held her while we read stories and she slept with her as well.

This is a dress-up dress she got from my mom, Savannah put it on as soon as she could and she's been wearing it all day today as well.

Savannah is such a joy, she can make me want to rip my hair out but she's still a joy none the less. I have loved being her mother and feel so blessed to know her. I love her curious nature, she is determined, inventive, smart, so silly, very tender hearted, imaginative, fearless, and just plain old fantastic. I cherish each moment I have with her and look forward to seeing her grow up as well. I can't imagine our lives without her.