Kelly's Dance Party

She talked me into a ballerina cake!  I was just going to do a ballet shoes cake, but we found this one and Kelly loved the idea of cotton candy on a cake..... and so we did it!

Kelly pretty much planned her whole party and really wanted very little involvement from me..... it was kind of nice.  She came up with some pretty fun ideas!  Her first game was a version of musical chairs, but she used her ballet and tap clothes.  Everyone had to grab a piece of dance gear or they were out.  Sariah and Annabelle were the finalists. 

Sariah won! 



Then she had pin the tutu on the ballerina.  I loved how my ballerina turned out.... I don't know why, but I do :).... Erika helped with the hands....

Then we did a few stalling games while Nate got the pinata hooked up.  It was a ballet shoe.  It sure was a pain in the patootie to begin with.... but it worked.  Everyone got a turn to bat..... everyone except.....  Charity.  We let her go last because she was sure she would break it, but it turned out, Brad had the killer swing!  Fastest pinata EVER!

Kelly put on quite the show during the cake and candles.... she's so adorable!

This is what was left of our beautiful ballerina!



They all stopped to play kick ball for a little while....



Kelly picked out her button at the party store, all on her own and wore it to school and everything :)  So cute!
She got spoiled pretty good from her friends.









Kelly had Nate make a treasure hunt for the end.  It was VERY elaborate!  Although I didn't really see anyone following what the clues said to do except to find the next one :)  It seemed like a lot of fun!  Nate's really good at those.  They found their goodie bags at the end.





After the treasure hunt, we realized that we still had almost an hour to kill!!  Kinda funny what a poor judge of time I am.  They improvised by having dancing contests which had been one of Kelly's ideas when we first started planning her party.  Everyone seemed to be having fun..... sometimes I think unstructured time is the most fun.  Hopefully it was.  Everyone went home and then the family started showing up for the Family Party.

Kelly got her scriptures! and a whole bunch of other wonderful presents!!  She says that the scriptures were her favorite part and I was very glad because I had kind of wanted to get her more, but ran out of time.  She's such a sweetie.... of course she liked them. 



Our second cake ended up being a S'mores cake after a little creativity.  The chocolate cake needed frosting and all I had on hand was the marshmellow creme that's been sitting in the cupboard for at least a year (probably more), then we happened to have some grahm crackers and so we crumbled those on top.  I thought it was pretty clever!  Anyway- it was nice to have Sarah, Alvin, Charlie, Grandpa Hatch, Steve, Grandma and Simon there for some birthday wishes.  What a fun day she had!!!