Madelyn’s Birthday Pictures
My first “official” post on my new blog design! I’m still getting used to how this works so this post actually took me awhile to finish. I finally got through the 300+ pictures Mike took of Madelyn’s party last week. As with all the parties I host, I need two of me. One to hostess and one to take all the pictures that I want.(Did I mention my hubby isn’t very good with the camera! lol) We had a cookout with family and friends. There were 9 kids that came. Everyone seemed to have a good time. The theme was teddy bears.I didn’t make Madelyn’s cake this year. I felt very guilty about it but with the stress of trying to move things around that week I felt justified in ordering her cake from a bakery. It really simplified things and made things easier. It was beautiful and delicious!I was going to try to make a teddy bear cake and that would have taken a lot of time! I gave out cloth party favor bags with bears on them. My mother in law’s neighbor was going through a bunch of her stuff and she found that she had a ton of these nice, cloth party favor bags with bears on them, party hats with bears on them, a box of tops and jacks and other party favor stuff. She gave them all to me! So I put crayons, sticky notes, tops and jacks in the the bags. I only paid for the crayons and sticky notes, and those I got on sale at Walmart!! What kid doesn’t love sticky notes? Madelyn got a lot of nice toys too. It eventually started to rain so we all had to squeeze inside but thankfully we had eaten and hang out outside for a bit before that happened.
The birthday girl….
The cake…. 
The opening of gifts…
The family and friends….
Uncle Bob and his daughter Kara
Nana and Papa with their three granddaughters
And one more of the birthday girl…(Mike does get kudos for this one)..
