Mike and I had a lot of fun planning for Lilly's birthday party this year. We also made sure to include Lilly in helping us prepare for the games. We did three activities this year.

I had the kids color backpack and glue onto a brown lunch sack.This activity was mainly to give the kids something to put their loot in from the Pinata!We played pin the tail on swipper(Lilly got to help color the tails for the Swipper game)

The highlight was the pinata! Mike and Lilly started making the Dora pinata on New Years Eve and I think we are going to make one every year for Lilly's party. It was so fun and we got to 'share' our left over Christmas candy.Mike and Lilly got to pop the balloon after everything was dry!Next was the painting of the pinata! We cut a hole in the pinata and filled it up with prizes and candy! Then we had to patch it up and do some finishing touches. The finished Dora Pinata! Lilly and Mike brought out the Pinata! All of the kids were soooooo excited to take a swing at Dora! After all the games we had cake and icecream and Lilly finally got to open her presents! She was so excited and was really happy with all the fun things she recieved.We decided to make our own cake this year and I AM SOOOOO HAPPY with how it turned out! it's really nice having an artist for a husband :) I did the words, eyebrows and all the purple stuff and Mike did the eyes and mouths and cutting of the cake to make it look like backpack. (he is so awesome) I love homemade cakes, they taste better and are really so special. I think we will deffiantly give it a try again next year... Here's the people that made it all happen :) the Party Crew! I think we make a pretty good team and throw an awesome party!