Yesterday evening we celebrated Mikayla’s third birthday with some friends here on the mission by going all out Mickey! Here is a picture recap of the details from the party.
The Invitations
Although we were inviting mostly people right next door, I still wanted to create some invitations and couldn’t pass up these cuties.
The Decorations
These were made from Styrofoam balls painted black and then glued to make a Mickey head. I also painted her initials on them because I had three.
Mickey head plates and party hats. I hot glued two small black plates to a larger one. They weren’t very sturdy, but were cute! The party hats were made from white cardstock (I would have used red if I had it) and then I glued on two circles for the ears, attached a string and was finished. I added a little red polka dot bow to the cups to add a little color to the table.
The door sign – it is no Lara Mattingly banner, but it worked okay! I replaced the "a’s" and dots on the "i’s" with Mickey heads.
She was excited about her party! This shirt was made by Emily Gilliland to raise funds for her adoption (you can have one too, check out her blog for details).
The food
Yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting. We also dipped Oreos and another round cookie in chocolate to make Mickey heads.
Close up of the chocolate dipped Mickey heads.
Minnie’s lavender cocktail courtesy of Joe. So pretty and tasty too!
We had a Hot Diggity Dog Hot Dog bar. Complete with homemade hot dog buns, mustard, ketchup, onions, jalapenos, cheese and chili.
Goofy’s Garden Veggie with guacamole and Minnie’s Mac and Cheese.
Chip and Dale Chips and Dip
Pluto’s Potato Salad
Pete’s Punch, which was really just homemade lemonade made from lemons straight off the tree!
Party favors were homemade caramel corn in Mickey bags.
The Guests
Guest of honor grabbing a quick snack before dinner started.
Ben!
Sister Diane
Sister Barbara
(Joe was here too but I don’t have a solo picture of him or me!)
The Games
We had two games. The first was to see how many words you could make out of the letters in "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse". Sister Barbara is a Scrabble fanatic so she blew everyone else out of the water! We also had a drawing contest to see who could draw the best character from the show. Mikayla was the judge.
Hard at work making some words.
Look at that concentrations!
Mikayla even joined in on the fun and wrote some letters.
Judging the drawing contest.
She chose Joe’s drawing and he was really excited about it!
Some party Snapshots
Enjoying her Mickey cupcake!
During present time she would open the gift and then run over to Joe and put it on his lap. By the time she was finished his lap was piled high with gifts. Then of course she went back over and studied each one individually!
She got lots of clothes from Mimi and Poppy so she played a little dress up game. This is the outfit she ended the day in!
I think everyone enjoyed themselves and most importantly Mikayla had a blast! It is still hard to believe that she is three! Thanks to everyone who came out to the party, sent presents or called to wish her a Happy Birthday. It was a great week of celebrating!
