hazel's fifth birthday

hazel turns five tomorrow
but since sunday birthdays are kind of lame
we spent all day today celebrating her
michael took them out to mcdonalds for breakfast while i got her party set up

i'm not sure why i did her party from 10-12, i probably won't do that again

it was quite the rush to get things ready

here are the invitations we gave out

despite having friends that are boys that she really wanted to invite

she was dying to have a princess party

where all her friends dressed up 

i decided last week i would make her an aurora/sleeping beauty dress

so she'd have something new to wear to her party

aurora has been her favorite princess for a couple years now
so i'm sure she'll get lots of use out of her dress

 olive wore hazel's cinderella dress for the party

they are so cute together!

 even eleanor was fancy

i am a fan of homemade pinatas
because they aren't very hard to make and they're much cheaper
just the cost of streamers pretty much
 here's hazel's number five pinata i made

the party was pretty low key

and i didn't want to go crazy with the food so

 we just had some fruit, lots of sweets and trader joes frenchberry lemonade to drink

 i made some paper crowns for the girls to wear

and then bought little rings and necklaces for them to get all fancy

here are the girls eating their snacks outside on some blankets

  i intentionally made the pinata a little weak so they'd be able to get it open

they each got to hit it once and then we let hazel go for it

 here are all the girls

hailey, lily and aria are hazel's church friends and neighbors, evelyn, elliotte, and emmy are from ballet

and libby (and emmy) are from preschool. hazel met her friend clare at martial arts and her cousin sophie came down for it, too!

 noah wanted to be a part of things so we made him a cardboard sword

and he liked all the girl attention
(i love these handsome guys)

 opening presents

 last year hazel's cousin miriam had a barbie cake 

so hazel has needed one ever since

we got this one at target and she loved it

 eating cake with her friends

we also did a little coloring, played with the dollhouse and i read beauty and the beast

 we sent the girls home with little goodie bags

including a wand, candy and felt flower hair clips i made

it was such a fun party celebrating hazel

and we were lucky all of her friends made it

despite it being memorial day weekend

i can't believe she's five tomorrow!!!!

we spent the rest of the day going out to lunch at cafe rio

then saw the croods at the dollar theater

flew kites and played at the park for a couple of hours

it was the perfect evening and we all had so much fun

the last stop was frozen yogurt!

it was a super fun filled day celebrating hazel!!!

hazel is the nicest girl

she loves her friends, always helps with her sisters

and a really good student

she has even mostly outgrown her fits (yay!!!)

happy birthday, darling hazel!