A Very Horsey Birthday Party!

A beautiful sunny day for her birthday party!

The Decorations:

Pink balloons with horse figures came from Amazon.  

Horse / Amelia pic garland made with card stock, clip art and ribbon.

Bought large horse balloons at a local party shop.

Horse figures were all Amelia's (had to sneak them away from her).  Pics in frames are clip art printed on card stock.  Books were made throughout the previous year.  Birthday tree we use for Birthdays, Christmas and holidays....I bought a box of little horses and drilled holes thru them and hung them with fishing line to tree. 

Another garland of horse shoes and one for the doorway with our toadstool for kids to sit to take off their boots.

Made the sign by Mod Podging card stock printed with clip art onto a scrap piece of wood.  Had the chain from left over chandelier chain hung years ago in the dining room...I knew that chain would come in handy someday!  Hay from a neighbor who has a few Islandic Ponies.  Inflatable horse that had a hole in it somewhere, but managed to stay somewhat inflated thru the party.   

Had to have a unicorn space :) turned out to be the beverage counter.  Framed a bunch of the clip art figures in large frames and set or hung them thru the house.  Had to have a bunch of carrots.  Bought the bales at Michael's.  Stray straw came from another neighbor.  Aren't neighbors great!

Horse shoe birthday wishes.  Plate was made via York Photo.

Card Garland

The Thank You Bags:

Girls received pink, babies red and the boys (only 1) blue.  The girls received a large weakens horse (above), babies ... a mini webkins and the boys ... a schleich horse.  Amelia was playing with a friend's son most of the time so I gave her the extra boy gift so that they both would have the same as they were playing sooo nicely! :)

The Food:

What I didn't get a picture of were the 2 main dishes of  Barbeque Country Ribs and Cowboy Spaghetti which were in the Roaster and oven when I took the pics.

Apple Galettes

Our centerpiece, Mac and Cheese, Fruit wands and Bacon Wrapped Smokies

Cheese, Crackers and Artichoke Dip (veggie sticks in the background).  Also had a smaller version of these in the other room where kids could help themselves that I didn't get a pic of.

Chips and Dip and a candy flower tree we have used for our cupcakes :)

Fruit dip and ...

The CAKE:

It is the only thing I didn't make from scratch.  A lot of people find that the cake is the best thing to make for a birthday...but I feel it is the one thing I would certainly stress over the day before a party...so I let our local grocery store do the honors...with direction and gave them the decorative barn and horses :)  Looked and tasted great.

The Birthday Girl:

Many wonderful gifts and a very happy girl on her 3rd Birthday. :)  

ok ok...now it is Easter time!  Will post a few pics of the adventures we had with my sister next.