Macie's Birthday Party

As much as I love having spring babies, having 2 birthdays within 2 1/2 weeks with Easter right around the corner can sometimes be kind of stressful!  But I wouldn't trade it...because once we're done, we're done for a year!  Anyway, Macie's birthday is always right around Easter as well as LDS General Conference so planning a birthday party can get kind of tricky.  We had it on the Saturday before her birthday this year (March 31st), between conference sessions.

Macie had a "Sweet" party and we had a candy/sweet shop that everyone got to take home their choice of sweets in their bags.  Almost everyone we invited was able to come so we had a full house but they had fun!  We ate lunch, played "Pin the candy in the mouth" (kind of like pin the tail on the donkey but my own version), played a gumball in the cupcake pan game that I came up with on a whim, ate cake & opened presents!

Macie had a great time but I could tell she was a little disappointed that her boyfriend Dallas wasn't able to come.  His 92 yr old great-grandma was baptized into the LDS church and understandably it was something he had to attend.  However, he stopped by a little later to bring Macie a cute little gift (some darling earrings & a bracelet) and we sent him home with some sweets and balloons for him and his brothers.  That completely made her day...she was so happy after that!  We sure love Dallas!

Since we pretty much celebrated Macie's birthday on Saturday we gave her our gifts that morning.  She had to wait until after ice skating lessons to open them but it was the first thing she did when she got home.

We got her a new scooter, a barbie set, some books, and a few other little things.

The Sweet Shop....the balloons in the middle were wrapped and put on a stick to look like lollipops.  I had planned to line them up on the walk into the house but it ended up being a super windy day so we kept them inside.

We decided we'd better feed the kids something healthy before we loaded them up with sugar!  They had turkey sandwiches, chips & strawberries for lunch.

One of the party favors that I made most of the girls (some left without theirs) were the gumball necklaces that Macie has on.  I saw it on Pinterest (my favorite!) and had to make them.  They turned out pretty cute!

Top Row: Crew, Rilyn, Molly, Halle, Savannah, Macie, Grace
Bottom Row: Guya, Kally, Pax, Maddie, Bailey, Mia, Rachel

Someone was a little tired from a long day of partying!  :)