Happy Duckday to you! Happy Duckday to you!

It was the original Pink Duck's 4th birthday party today! Wow. I cannot believe that she is 4. She is such a wonderful little girl, and she is getting so grown up. Apparently that doesn't come without its hurdles, as we had a few outbursts at her party. However, she is still a darling and I'm sure she will overcome the tantrums of 4.

I was planning on having a Wizard of Oz party...since we had accumulated so much stuff during the planning/execution of Halloween. One day, out of the blue, Greta mentioned she wanted to have a Snow Party. And she stuck with it- so a Snow Party she would have! It all started with the invitations...so cute! I ordered these blank from KT Original and printed them myself.

It was so fun to play on the word snow. If you can't read in the picture, it says "There's SNOW party like Greta's 4th Birthday Party!" And at the bottom, for RSVP, it says "Can you make it? Let us SNOW!"

A quick family portrait.

Rockin' the snowman shirt and red tutu. Also, please notice the sparkly silver tights and SILVER high tops!

Diva with the cake.

The cake somewhat matches the invitations, except we made her into a snowgirl, or, as Greta liked to call her - a SnowGreta.

White chocolate snowflakes. SO easy to make! I just melted those (fake, but still) white chocolate candy melts from the candy store and then piped them in an icing bag onto wax paper. A little pop in the fridge, and they peel right off.


The snowflakes went onto cupcakes. Greta was very specific in her requests...she wanted a snowman (or girl) (or Greta) cake, and snowflake cupcakes. This was such a easy way to make snowflake cupcakes that looked really cute.

Our first activity was to make snowmen out of marshmallows, frosting, pretzel sticks and a TON of candy.

Mid-Snowman making, with McKenzie and Luke.

A mommy-made snowman. Not as easy as it looks, but the kids really seemed to have fun. We then had a spoon race, only with Jumbo Cotton Balls, so we called it a snowball race. This was really more of free for all, kids roaming the living room and generally taking turns very nicely. (Except mine, of course.)

Our next game was Pin-The-Accessories-On-The-Snowman.

Singing Happy Birthday!

A happy picture...McKenzie, Sam, Greta and Delaney.

Party Favors - Snow hats with the kids names embroidered on them...filled with a goody bag to make your own foam snowman, hot chocolate, snowman candies, and snowman stickers.