Happy Birthday to Ashleigh!

Our Ashleigh is 4 years old now! Wow! Saturday was her birthday and party. We did it on the same day this year with friends and family together (last year it was separate). My sister and her boyfriend came, my dad and his brother came and Ashleigh's friend Taia and her mom came. There was another friend of Ashleigh's who was invited but he and his family couldn't be here, so we had them over for cake the next day. Also, my mom couldn't be here, but we did see her the week before.

My dad and his brother did something special for Ashleigh's birthday. They had their guitars with them and played "Happy Birthday". It sounded so full and professional. Ashleigh also played along with them with her new harmonica that she had just received from Grandpa (my dad).

I made the cake, my sister iced it and put "Dora" on it, and the kids helped to decorate it.

Here they are putting candy on it.

Voila! My sister is amazing. Dora's face did get a little smudged because one of the kids placed a candy on her face, but Taia's mom carefully took it off.

We got Ashleigh a fish for her birthday, which she wanted to name, "Princess Fish", so Chris helped her pick out the name, "Princess Buttercup" :0)


We played a game, danced, and ate good food.

Ashleigh wanted to have place cards at the table. I am not sure where she got the idea, but it was hers. So, even though the children were the only ones sitting down at the table, we made place cards for all. Underneath the place cards for the adults were mini chocolate bars for them to take home and the children got loot bags of course!

By 1pm, our guests were gone, so we spent the afternoon veggin' (getting over the sugar high) and after a light supper, we danced some more to some happy birthday songs that we found on the internet (strawberry shortcake and the Beatles... a duet)