Birthday pieces

we had reid and eden's birthday party two weekends ago,

lego themed. (eden's pick)

it's easy while reid is so small because i can just do

whatever eden wants and reid doesn't care at all.

i'm sure next year, we might have to compromise a bit. 

although, eden is literally so sweet with reid i think

it's going to be easy for them to share their birthday parties. 

kelly sent me a bunch of lego party ideas and it

ended up being pretty easy fun.

first, i bought red, yellow and blue party bags.

i cut the fronts off of them and cut out little circles.

a little glue and some rope, and wah la, 

a lego banner, which i hung on the fireplace. 

i did more of these to hang above our kitchen and 

hung streamers and balloons. 

i also busted out our big legos as a centerpiece for

the table and had my mom bring up brian's legos 

from when he was a kid.

we had a little lego building station and 

i took two of the green pads, made an E and a R

to help decorate the cake. 

which the cake, my mom made.

i told her what i wanted and she did the rest since

it needed to be dairy free and i had never tried it before.

i knew my mom's dairy free cake was amazing and i

didn't want to mess it up for the party.

basically, just make a sheet cake and some extra cupcakes.

cut the bottoms off the cupcakes and place them 

on the sheet cake in a lego pattern.

then ice.

LEGO CAKE!

some of our family couldn't make it this year,

so it was a smaller crowd, but

since we ordered pizza, there was nothing left for 

me to do but hang out and talk, which was a nice

change from some of the other parties i've thrown.

i think the girls had fun and i loved spending

the day with family. 

happy birthday reid and eden! 

our big 2 and 5 year old girls. 

love them so much.