I choose SUNNY St. George for the children’s parties. The weather has ALWAYS been perfect. ALL week long before her party (and even the night before!) I watched the weather report and was SO excited for the lovely weather we were going to have.

Her park party got rained out. I didn’t have a backup plan. I a little bit panicked/freaked out. My Mom let me take over her house and I called, e-mailed, facebooked, cleaned, decorated, and prayed that people would still be able to come (tons of cupcakes and candy that I needed help eating).

Lesson learned. ALWAYS have a backup plan!!! And NEVER trust the weather.

Kaylee was beyond ecstatic that Carter came to her party.

Decorations

Her dinosaur cupcakes.

I made a pin the plate on the Stegosaurus game. The winner got a chocolate bar.

Kaylee thought the game was pretty cool.

She was SO excited for piñata time and patiently sat and waited while her Daddy and Shan strung it up. I think all the kids were excited about the piñata. I mean who doesn’t love beating up something for candy?!

Kaylee got to hit “Sally the Triceratops” first.

Then she watched in excitement as the rest of the kids got a turn.

Corbin went at it like a pro, then kindly helped me help Regan who was mad that I took his Linus blanket so he could use both hands.

At this point I realized that I made this piñata WAY too strong. The thing is I ran out of masking tape. SO I used ducked tape (because we are a one car family and I was IN the zone and wanted it done NOW!). Ya. That would be lesson number TWO learned. Be patient and wait for Jon to bring me more tape when he gets done working.

But it’s o.k. Brianna is one super tough Chickie. She took “Sally” (with a little bit of Jon help) from this. To….

THIS!

And then THIS happened.

Sweet sugary goodness for all. Goodbye “Sally”! You did good.

This guy here. Ya. My AWESOME Dad. Well he let us hijack his birthday. Not just his birthday weekend (like last year). HIS birthday. He is just awesome like that.

So we sang to him too. Kaylee’s Papa is 50 years older than her. They have blown out their birthday candles together the last few years. It may be becoming a tradition….

I think the kids liked the dino cup cakes. They went FAST!

She got so excited about every one of her gifts.

She got lipgloss, nail polish, clothes, books, movies, a new dino, a ride on motorcycle, and money. She was VERY excited to, “…feed my pig bank with all my hundred dollars. It’s really starving.”

Thanks to everyone who came and helped us celebrate the fact that we managed to keep Kaylee alive another year. She is our first miracle and is SO worth celebrating.