Birthday Madness

So our November is crazy with birthday parties, celebrations, dinners, treats, etc. We start on the 6th with both Lily and Jason's birthdays. This year Jason was leaving town on his birthday so we celebrated early. Lily started her partying early, too! We had her "Friends" birthday on Friday the 2nd. She wanted a craft party - I didn't want a bunch of girls in the house with paint, glitter, glue, etc so we decided to have a party at Michaels craft store - what a wonderful idea that turned out to be!! I will definitely do that again. :) Lily got to pick what she wanted to do (decorate mirrors), then picked out all of the decorations (glitter, glue, stickers, etc) and then we just showed up with food and had a great party. At the end, I got to leave and not clean up one thing! The girls had a ball, and Lily loved her Lalaloopsy Craft party. She has made some really, fun cute friends in her kindergarten class, so I enjoyed getting having them all together and getting to know them better.

Sunday, the 4th we continued the party for Jason and Lily with a "Family" dinner here at the house. Lily requested her favorite - my meatball pizza. And then we also had grilled chicken alfredo pasta. YUMMY! And of course we ended the night with our usual birthday chocolate cake - and lots of presents. Lily finally got the present she has been wanting - her very own American Girl doll. Big thanks to meemaw and pop-pop for that one!!

So by the time we got to the actual day - November 6th - I was kind of done cooking and entertaining. But we had a happy birthday breakfast (cinnamon roll waffles with a candle) before dad left for the airport and then I took cookies to Lily's school class (which I bought because I got lazy) and then Lily had her weekly lunch bunch friends over after school for lunch and games. I was very happy that she chose to go to gymnastics that night over going out to eat. I think she was done celebrating, too. It was a great week of fun and now we have a dad that is another year older - and Lily that is now 6.