Hayden's Tinkerbell 4th Birthday Party!

Let's just say that Hayden is one lucky lil girl! Since we moved from Olympia to Spokane just a few months ago- she was really missing her friends & family in Western Washington. We were already going to be in the area with Jeremy playing in the Microsoft Hockey Challenge, so we decided to have a birthday party for her over there (in addition to her party here in Spokane!).  = A LOT of work for mommy! :) And, because I'm probably insane & like to go "all out" when it comes to a theme- I put my crafty skills to good use on this one! :) We had her party at my favorite pizza joint in Olympia: Dirty Dave's.  It was centrally located for our seattle friends, chehalis family & olympia friends/family! Everyone spoiled her rotten & she had a wonderful time!

I made the tissue ball hanging decorations: They didn't travel too well & looked a lot better at home, but oh well!

We had limited space with this party room, so everything was pretty much crammed onto one table, but it worked.



Hayden & Hayden! :)

LOVE me some dirty daves cashew pepperoni pizza! :)

(I made all the food labels too!)



Since we were in a pretty small room & the weather was just crap outside, I didn't do much as far as the game department went.  Just printed off some coloring pages from disney.com & set out crayons.

Coming from out of town & then from a hotel/hockey arena, there was really no way I would've been able to make her a cake or cupcakes. Plus, everytime we were at any grocery store that had this cake- she always asked for it for her birthday party.  This one was from the safeway across the street from the pizza parlor & it was actually really good. I got the perfect size- no left overs to have to travel back to Spokane! :)

Pixie Punch = aka Apple Juice ;)



So- just a week later we got to do it ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!  I know- like I said, I'm crazy!  But, since we've only been here in Spokane a short while, Hayden doesn't really have very many little kid friends, so this party was primarily adults (family). 

We decorated with the lovely (they made a trip back & forth over snoqualmie pass) tissue pompoms.

Table scape (much more room here at home!)

Forgot to take pics of her Olympia party- but everyone got either a peter pan hat/glow in the dark sword or a set of wings/fairy wand (I made the wands) and everyone got a little jar of pixie dust that I also put together.

Lucky girl got to have TWO cakes! :) This one from JUST AMERICAN DESSERTS was SOOOO yummy!  

We got out the fairy puzzles to do too- since her grandparents like to do puzzles! ;)

Hayden & I made this cute #4 hanger for the door out of cardboard from a diaper box & cupcake liners.  FYI- it takes SIGNIFICANTLY more cupcake liners than one would think = two-toned #4! ;)

We had all sorts of goodies: Pixie Punch = apple juice; Pixie Sticks = pure sugar crack for kids; Fairy Wands = We made chocolate dipped pretzels rods; Fairy Berries = gotta have some healthy component! ;) 

Hayden & cousin Jake sword fighting! ;)

!!!THANK YOU!!!

to everyone who came & celebrated with us (at either party!)

Hayden loved her party & will probably expect two parties every year from now on.... uh oh!

Supplies:

Tinkerbell cups/plates/napkins/goodie bags:  WALMART

 Peter Pan Hats: A Rainy Day Play etsy

Fairy Wings: Halo Heaven

Pixie Dust Jars: save-on-crafts.com

Tissue paper, swords: Dollar Store

Michael's for a ton of stuff! ;)

cake #1: Safeway Grocers

cake #2: JUST AMERICAN DESSERTS

Printables: Disney