Lily's Rainbow Party Pictures

Lance took the pictures for Lily's party.

Then he texted them to me, and I saved them on my phone, thinking it would be easy to get them from there to my blog via automatic syncing and whatnot.

WRONG!  There was no automatic syncing of these photos. I had to email them to myself, check my email from a computer (instead of my phone), and save them to my hard drive.

This also greatly reduced the quality of the photos.

I feel like this really shouldn't be that difficult. Ug.






Anyway, the party happened.  Lily loved it.

I felt sorry for myself because we invited 10 kids, and 2 showed up.

I'm grateful for only 2 kids showing up. It made everything easier and faster, and my house wasn't insanely hectic.

However, it reminded me how alone we are out here.



Without further ado...

That drink was THE BOMB!  I was going to make rainbow ice cubes, but after a practice run they didn't really work out. So plan B was to serve lemonade with lime slices and frozen strawberries (yellow, green, red). It looked pretty and the strawberry-lime-lemon flavor was amazing. Super refreshing!

Those balloons were part of the treasure hunt. Lance ended up taking the reins on the treasure hunt, and he decided the kids should get a toy or treat at every clue, to keep it interesting. It worked like a charm!  Inside those balloons were chocolate gold coins.  It was a big hit to be able to pop a balloon at the end!

Here's the food, minus the fruit salad because I'm an idiot.  I forgot about the fruit salad until after everyone had started eating. So, we did serve it, but we didn't get pictures of it.  (It wasn't very pretty anyway.) 

Rainbow veggies!  It looked pretty, but it wasn't very easy to get the veggies you wanted.  We have tomatoes, carrots, yellow bell pepper, cucumber, broccoli, olives, and the cauliflower is supposed to look like clouds.  On the right side is cheese. The idea is to create your own veggie pizza slice.

Super proud of my rainbow jello!  I'm not a jello fan. I suck at making jello. I had to practice this, and my practice run didn't turn out well either.  But these looked and tasted great! And the kids loved them. We have Raspberry, Mango, Melon, Blue Raspberry, and Grape Jello. The picture looks like yellow is there, but there was no yellow. The only yellow Jello was lemon, and I didn't think that sounded good with the other flavors.

Ok, pointless balloons.  I wanted balloons to make a rainbow out of, for the treasure hunt and for decoration.  Then Lance took over the treasure hunt, and then we never really communicated what the balloons were for. So they were just hanging out on the patio.

As soon as Lance brought them in, Lily was really excited and took them into her room, which had the ceiling fan on.  Yup, tangled.  So we had to separate each one. We had a few casualties in the process.

The birthday girl, in her rainbow tutu.

She wanted to sit by herself.

Lily kept asking for more Jello, but all she wanted was the whipped cream.

Cupcake decorating

The girls had lots of fun with this!  Each of them were so different.
Lily ate and decorated at the same time. I think the frosting was gone before she got around to putting sprinkles on.
Addie threw sprinkles all over the place, then asked for more sprinkles. I told her no.  She used what she had leftover and decorated really fast and wanted to just look at her cupcake and carry it around with her.
McKinley slowly decorated her cupcake, and decorated it, and decorated it. I think when she left she still wasn't done decorating it.

This was right before we sang Happy Birthday. We had to hurry because she was eating more than decorating.

I wasn't going to have Lily open presents. I really hate opening presents in front of people. I also was worried about Lily liking one present a lot more than another, and I didn't want anyone's feelings to get hurt. I also didn't want the kids to fight over toys.  Ugh.  But, Addie really wanted Lily to open her present, so...

Lily's face sums it up.

It was a good party. I'd do it all over again. I just wish I knew how many people were going to come so I could have saved time and money (and anxiety)!