Grace's Party at the Park

We celebrated Grace's birthday with a party at the park which turned out to be a lot of fun. We invited a few friends to join us and my Mom and brother were able to make it as well. We let the kids play on the playground and we ate pink cupcakes and opened presents. I forgot about the library events at the park on Thursdays so it was a happy accident that Grace had a children's comedian at the park for entertainment. The girls watched him for about 15 minutes before losing interest and went back to playing on the playground equipment. I lucked out and Grace's "Birthday Girl" shirt from last year still fit so we got two years out of it! Definitely a good purchase.

Grace spent her birthday morning at Vacation Bible School and on the way home we stopped at the Dollar Store so she could pick out her birthday balloons. Are you surprised that she chose two of the exact same princess balloons? I didn't think so.



I forgot to take a picture of the cupcakes at the party so I snapped a quick one this morning of a leftover cupcake. Grace picked everything about it out. She chose chocolate for the cake and wanted pink frosting with the sprinkles she chose at the store. I brought a pink candle for her cupcake but unfortunately the lighter we brought didn't want to light. We sang Happy Birthday to her anyways and I didn't feel too bad since she blew out candles in Idaho last week.


Grace had plenty of pink presents to open and was pretty excited about them all but when we got home she kept asking if we could go camping that night because she wanted to sleep in her new purple sleeping bag. We weren't in the mood for camping in the backyard on a weeknight so we told her we'd put the tent up and practice camping this weekend. She settled for sleeping in her new sleeping bag on her bed.

Thanks to our friends and family that came, Grace had a great time!