6th Birthday with Friends

Our little girl isn't so little anymore... on the 16th she had her 6th birthday! She chose to have her party at our house, and do a Hello Kitty theme. We started the planning about a month or so prior and made most of our own decor, which was a fun way to build anticipation!

Here is a sample of the invites we sent out to her friends:

Just before her friends arrived, I got Melissa to pose with the "Pin the bow on Hello Kitty" poster...

and the Hello Kitty homemade pinata... it was a lot more work than I had anticipated, but at least we were happy with the end results!

Melissa chose to have "make-your-own pizzas" for lunch. The girls took turns loading their pizza with their favorite toppings with the help of Melissa's Nana...

Making crafts...

We played a few rounds of Hello Kitty Bingo while Nana baked the pizzas...

Pizza time...

After a bit of free play, the girls played a game of "hot potato"...

Present time!

Playing "Pin the bow on Hello Kitty"...

Time for the pinata (pull-string style, Melissa didn't have any interest in beating it with a stick). It worked out great, each girl got a chance to pull a string, and then Melissa finished it off!

Gathering the loot...

Cup cake time...

And there's the party in a nut-shell :)