Saturday, December 17, 2011

Happy Birthday Jesus Party!

My friend Ashley decided several months back to host a kids Christmas party this year.  She has been putting this together for quite some time and Tuesday was the big day.  Unfortunately on Monday, she became really sick with fever and couldn't host like she had planned.  We were all so bummed!  She'd worked so hard on everything (I had no idea until I saw the details first hand).  Thankfully, Kristal hosted at her home and the party continued as planned.  The kids LOVED it!  Ashley had so many fun activities for the kids and lots of treats, including a birthday cake for Jesus! 
We all started off making the gingerbread houses that she had put together using some milk cartons Whitney had gotten from school.  The kiddos loved this because it involved LOTS of candy (gumdrops, candy canes, M&M's, marshmallows, and pretzels).  There was plenty of finger-licking and candy sneaking that's for sure!  After the little houses were made we moved onto the Christmas tree canvases.  We each CAREFULLY painted our kiddos hands or feet and placed them on the canvas.  I needed lots of help with this one...Ansley's hand consistently looked like a blob, so at one point I resorted to washing my canvas off!  Thanks to Kristal and others I was able to get a somewhat decent looking Christmas tree made out of Ansley's precious little hands.  After doing the canvases we ate some more and lit the candles on the birthday cake for Jesus.  We sang Happy Birthday and Maksim and Ansley blew the candles out.  It was so sweet and an awesome end to a great day!  We enjoyed it so much!

This was the first item Ansley found when she walked in.  She was not interested in anything else for a little bit.  I loved Isaac scratching his little belly in this one...I just couldn't crop it!  
Some of the gang starting their gingerbread houses (Emily & Wyatt, Heather & Maks, Kristal & Isaac, Sonya & Ellie, and Courtney's MIL too! Somehow I missed Courtney and Wylie?!)
Kristal, Isaac, Ellie, and Sonya 
Ansley STILL on the truck, happy as can be. 
Finally, we started our house.  She was so intently placing those M&M's! 
Making her masterpiece one candy at a time 

Brynn got in on some of the candy action too! 
Here's where she realized that she could EAT the candy. 
Then came some sneaking of the gumdrops 
So proud of her house! 
Next up...more grazing of the candy and of course some baby Brynn time. 
Frankie and Erin
Sweet Ellie
The precious cake 
Ansley singing loudly! 
Ansley and Maks blowing the candles out 
What a fun afternoon.  I asked Ansley that evening what her favorite part of the day was and she said "Issix's house".  I'm pretty sure she loved it.

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