Party Preparations

Originally posted on my Slice Of Life blog at Blog.com on 1/15/2008

Meghan is having her first birthday party this year. The theme for the party is Hello Kitty but she wanted a heart shaped cake with ballerina's. Of course the child has to be particualr and has chosen butter pecan for the flavor. My mom is coming to the rescue and making the cake that Megahn has requested. Since Meghan did not have school yesterday morning, we spent the morning before I went to work looking ballerinas to put on the cake. This proved to be a not so easy feat. Three craft stores and two party stores later, we did not find ballerina's. Mom had to go to the grocery store and beg them to sell her the ballerina's they put on their cakes. For those of you that might be looking for those kind of things, please understand all they sell in the stores now for cake decorations are the licensed themes form Disney and the assorted other groups. (yes she could have had football and baseball) but there are not any (dare I use this word) generic themes for girls.

When we purchased the party supplies before Christmas, I failed to purchase cups to go wirth the plates and napkins and table cloths. Today I will be going back out to purchase that oversight. Boy, I am beginning to miss our yearly sourjn to Disney for her birthday. It was so much easier on all of us. We have all the other stuff purchased and ready. The party is Saturday at 2 pm. The party is being held at the dance studio and her dance teacher will be doing all the activities and we simply supply the cake and decorations. They will have 45 minutes dance and gymnastic type activities and then 45 minutes for cake and presents.

Meghan is looking very forward to the party and hopes that all her friends can make it. So far we have only 2 that have confirmed. There are four others that we think will be there althought they have not confirmed as yet.I think we are all going to miss doing her birthday as a family at Disney.

This will be the first year she has actually gone to school on her birthday. We might have still tried to do Disney but she has school picutres and a field trip that day. They are going to the dump for the field trip. Happy Birthday Meghan!! Besides I made her choose so it would have been wrong to have still done both.