Happy New Year!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

A Fresh Start!

This is my busiest time of year!
Preparing the business for a new year of photography, organizing the kids for a new year of school (kindy, grade 3 and grade 5) AND... the part I find exciting and fun... organizing my family's birthdays. YAY!!!

I have 3 birthday's within about 6 weeks of each other. My husband's at the end of January, my son in February and my daughter who will be 8, very early March. So it's full steam ahead with all party planning.

I absolutely LOVE the excitement of preparing the kiddies parties.
Every year I throw my babies a party for their special day. People always say "They don't need a party every year. But I say "Why not? It is the only day of the year that is all about them! So we celebrate it the way THEY want to".

Last year we had a big year. With Lightning McQueen, Charlie and the chocolate factory and an Alice in wonderland being the 3 theme's of the year.

As it gets closer to their birthday's I will show you last years excitement and fun!

This year the theme's are Dragons, Rainbow Fairies and Harry Potter. Oh that's for the 3 bigger kids. For the hubby it's dinner at a Chinese restaurant and for bubba (still 9 months away so i may change my mind) it will be a story book theme, maybe the hungry caterpillar.

Can't wait to see the final out come for all!

Talen's Birthday, 2011. Disney Pixars - Cars.

At the moment we are in full party planning mode. So I thought I would give you a quick sneak peek into last years birthday theme... Cars!

Last year Talen turned 2. His favorite movie and books at the time was anything to do with Disney Pixar's - Cars. So naturally we had a Lightning McQueen party.
This post will just be a quick run down of what we did. I just had to share because I loved it so much.

Before guests walked in the gate they had to get their license to party from the Sherif.

The license's had a personal picture of each child along side a cars character.

When they enter the garden it was all about Fun, Food, and Activities!
What no games????
 Nope!
We had activities instead of games because Talen was too little to participate in any game we were looking at doing.

EVERYONE, young and old enjoyed the activities.
We had...

•   Race track painting
• Ramone's Body art (temporary tattoo's)
•  Grow your own plant - just like Red the fire truck. (For just $2 each we bought 4 punnets of 6 flowering plants, the kiddies thought this was a great activity).

We also had:

• Sally's cozy cone (an orange children's tent for them to play in)
• Luigi's leaning tower of tyre's (large old go kart tyre's that the children would try stacking).
• The spring from Radiator Springs (kiddies paddle pool with sprinkler on low.
• Sarge's surplus - Take home treats table.
   

Sadly I don't have photos of these.

For the adults we had Maters- guess how many jelly beans in the jar, winner takes all.


The food table was called Flo's V8 Cafe.
I had all the sorts of foods you would find at a Race event. Hot dogs, Pies, pop corn, chips etc.
I also made Mater cupcakes, (couldn't resist, they were adorable) and traffic light biscuits.

To re-fuel the kids visited Filmore's fuel stop.
Here they could find Filmore's organic bio fuel (fruit juice) and some rust-eze (cola).

Last of all the cake! I LOVED the cake.
It was 2 days in the making and so worth the effort when I saw the look on my little man's face.
Presenting LIGHTNING McQUEEN!!!

It was all so much fun!
Can't wait for this years theme. Talen has chosen ....DRAGONS!!! (Good one's of course hehehe)
Keep an eye out for it in February. :)