She dreamed it herself and we brought it to life. Sophia talks about her birthday party year round. Her fifth birthday party will probably be "frozen fever" and her sixth birthday, horses she says. It was a proud day when she sat down next to me on the couch back in the spring to start planning her fourth birthday, unicorns. We browsed through pinterest, googled party ideas and every time we saw something unicorn-related in the months to come she would say "that would be good for my birthday party." It wasn't anything fancy but she was so happy with how everything came together. Of course, as her Mom I added a few extra touches to make it the perfect day and when she fell asleep within seconds at bedtime I knew it was a success.
Decorations: our main decoration inspiration stemmed from the Meri Meri unicorn balloon I searched long and hard to find. I love that dear balloon. Our plates, napkins and straws all came from Target. We teamed up with the awesome company Glam Fete to create a custom color tassel banner which really brought everything together once set up. I loved the way we could tie our colors together in that beautiful rainbow to make everything pop. They are truly the unicorn of tassels over there, simply magical! All balloons came from Party City
Food: we did our best to make our food friendly to everyone, including those guests with celiac disease. We divided the table by gluten-free on the left of the cake and everything else on the right. If it isn't obvious, we made the cake (a pinterest fail) but in my defence we ran out of time to give it the love it needed. It served it's purpose and then we totally threw it out after the party. Cupcakes came from a local shop called Cake Babes. Doughnuts were the unicorn from our favorite donut shop Vandal Doughnuts. Everything else was homemade from my sugar cookies, Mom's rice krispie treats, puppy chow, marshmallow ice cream cones, fruit and veggie trays and my sister-in-law's delicious chocolate silk pie. Yum! I loved the way our drink cans also tied into the color scheme. I'll admit, I bought them based on color and not flavor but the cucumber mint turned out to be delicious.
Activities: when everyone arrived we started the party by playing a couple games. Sophia loves duck duck goose and what time is it Mr. Wolf? We changed them to go with our theme, starting off with horse horse unicorn followed by what time is it Mrs Unicorn? The clapping, laughter and excitement was through the roof during these games. The adults quite possibly got more into it than anyone else. When we finished the games we enjoyed all the treats, opened gifts and then sang happy birthday for Sophia to blow out her candles. She was very disappointed we put a sparkler on her cake at first. We sang twice solely so she could have her wish-making-candle-blowing moment
Sophia was so lucky to be surrounded by a group of people who absolutely adore her. She had the best day and we're so grateful for everyone who contributed to making this day all that it was. I hope she continues to celebrate big as the years go by and that she always knows how amazing she is. There will never be a curly haired girl quite like her.
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