Abbie's 5th Birthday

Ava Grace, Abbie, and Meagan

 

Abbie and Anna (giving her best roar)

Layla and Abbie

the girls playing musical chairs

The girls enjoying their pizza.

  

the butterfly pinata

Abbie's clown cake

Abbie with her clown cake!

Anna, Sophie, Meagan, Abbie, Layla and Dani with Keri (holding Carter), Aunt Martha with Morgan

Morgan and Abbie

Paula, Abbie, Sophie and Matt

Sophie playing with Morgan

This year, we decided to do Abbie's birthday party on a much smaller scale than last year.  I thought that a circus theme would be fun since we were taking Abbie to the circus for the first time just a week after her party.  We had the party at our church and just invited a few girls from school and church.  We also invited some family to come to the party.  Matt's parents were able to come in for Abbie's party from Virginia as well even though they got a few inches of snow there before leaving town.  About half of the girls that we invited were able to come to the party.  We played some games like musical chairs, tossing bean bags to knock down the cans,  trying to toss a ball into a bucket, we did the pinata, did an egg on the spoon race and played with a parachute (the kids loved that).  We had pizza, popcorn and of course, cake and ice cream.  The popcorn was very important to Abbie because she LOVES popcorn and I had told her we could have it for our circus party.  =)  One thing that was funny is that Abbie wanted a clown cake but she kept saying that a clown would come out at her party (but she doesn't like people who are dressed up-except princesses).  I kept saying, "no, we are not having a clown at your party.  I don't think you'd like that."  We had a nice time and it was fun to be with friends and family.  We gave Abbie her first "American Girl doll"-really the Target version of the doll.  She was very excited.  She had told Mimi that she needed a big car for her doll that could pull Sophie's RV (that she got for Christmas).  Mimi and Paw-paw Tom gave her a Jeep so Abbie was in heaven with her new toys.  Nana and Paw-paw gave her a salon chair too for her doll so she can fix their hair.   She is all set!  She got some other nice gifts as well.