Party

This poor kid. We completely wore her out on her big day before her big party even started. She woke up that morning and after a quick birthday breakfast, dance and present opening, we were off to meet friends and family coming through town. After that, we ran a million errands and then it was off to a soccer game. Kaelan zoomed back home just in time to meet friends already arriving. She was exhausted. Unnapped (I declare this a word). A little grouchy, and within five minutes of arriving at her party, she had a major meltdown over a friend dumping water in her sand table. Mom and Kaelan made a quick exit to her room, and after a few hugs and kisses (and a TALK), she rejoined the party in a much better mood. More hugs, bubbles, a few CareBears painted on her body and she was good to go!

Kaelan did choose a CareBear theme this year, which led to a great amount of headaches for our party planner. AKA mom. There were lots of rainbows involved and when plans to have an actual CareBear fall from the clouds for a visit failed, we went with a Plan B.

Enter the Great Staci Gray!

Not only is she an amazing singer and kiddie rocker, she amazed us with some awesome facepainting! Kaelan has been a huge fan for years, so CareBear or not, when we had the opportunity to have her come and entertain, we jumped on it!


Kiddie Mosh Pits are hilarious! The funniest part about this is that the whole dress-up costume thing was not planned. The kids found a few of Kaelan's dress up boxes just before the concert portion of the party started, and well........they dressed to impress! I just loved watching the boys jam out in their pink high heels and fairy wings! Kaelan and her best bud were just too busy dancing and singing to costume up.



There was cake and cupcakes. I was very disappointed with the cake I ordered. I took a great deal of time sketching out the rainbow with little cupcake clouds (with CareBears stuck in them), but the cake person ruined my vision and used some sort of ghetto airbrushing technique. I thought it looked like one of those shirts you get when you visit Venice Beach, but Doug laughed off my discord and paid for the cake. The kids did not seem to notice.

Cake and cupcakes are not art.

Kaelan and some loot.

Each year, we end our party as a family with a little traditional wish send off. Dad and Mom write a special wish or blessing on a balloon for Kaelan. Kaelan then writes her birthday wish for that year on her own balloon and we send them off into the heavens. This year, we made a night time launch after a very long day.
Happy Birthday, our BIG 5 year old!
We hope your wish comes true!