A Charlie Brown Birthday Party

Whoosh! Guys, what a week. Heck what a month. Okay let's be realistic...it has been a crazy SEVERAL months.

Good news folks! This Charlie Brown Birthday Party marks the end of our CRAZY, with a capital CRAY, run of birthdays.

Little came up with this birthday theme around Christmas time when he developed a mild obsession with all the Charlie Brown movies playing on Netflix. I readily agreed because to be honest it is really hard to tell Little no when he asks so sweetly.

For the next 3ish months we have heard of very little else.

He was very excited. In fact in every sweet little prayer he has uttered for the last month plus, he has thanked Heavenly Father for his birthday and birthday party coming soon.

It was really rather sweet.

So sweet in fact that I was given to panic when just a few short weeks before his party, nothing was actually planned, and I was worried about letting his sweet face down.

AHHH!!!  

A Charlie Brown Themed Birthday Party was a little harder to put together than I had anticipated.

Everything finally came together and there was plenty of Charlie Brown fun!

I decorated with a lot of yellow and black in true Charlie Brown fashion. Although, did you know that Charlie Brown did not always wear his oh-so-well-known yellow with black chevron?

I found that little gem out while putting stuff together for this party.

For a little pop there was some red added in, but it was just a tad since Charlie Brown was the star.

One of my favorite things were these simple graphic Charlie Brown poster that I made using PicMonkey.

Ya wanna know what my very favorite part was?

The birthday boy in his custom-made Charlie Brown Shirt was my very favorite part.

The kids' favorite part was lunch.

The lunches were packed with traditional lunch items.

Fresh cut red apple slices.

Pretzel twists.

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Of course we can't forget the PB and J. Everything was nestled in a cardboard lunch box.

 Just add a glass of milk and let the eating begin.

Happy, happy eaters.

Cute, happy, happy eaters.

We followed lunch with a few games, hot potato Snoopy being the crowd favorite.

Next we went on to coloring and chalkboard fun.

Coloring took a lot of concentration.

They weren't concentrating hard enough to forget about the baked goods though.

Black frosting adds a bit of fun to an otherwise boring cupcake.

Little had a really good time and as always, was very appreciate by saying "thank you" over and over.

When the party was done he said "thank you" to his little friends with Charlie Brown take home gifts.

My new favorite thing is printing on lunch sacks. I am all set to show you how I made up these bags tomorrow in a little tutorial.

Thanks for sticking with me last week while I was MIA. I would send you each a little Charlie Brown Thank You, but that would be a lot of lunch sacks AND more ink than I could buy at Sam's Club.

So accept my little virtual "thank you". You guys are the bestest.

See ya tomorrow!

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WINNER: Firmoo Glasses Voucher

I am finally stopping by and announcing the winners of the Firmoo Glasses Voucher GIVEAWAY...

YEP...WINNERS.

I have SIX vouchers to give away, so there are SIX winners.

The winners are:

83. Corrie Hummer Gibson

53. Dezi Allen

34. Andrea Jones

7. Natalie

18. Jessica Williams-Boling

78. Willy Vh 

Congrats. I will be contacting you by email and sending you the 

voucher code. So excited for you and your new stylish glasses.

In Charlie Brown Party News...

I am whittling down list items one at a time and 

we are getting closer  to the party date.

I am excited to show you some of the features of this party.

I hope you are excited to see them...

humor me...

just say, "why yes, yes of course we are!"

Love ya all!

Have a great day.

Pardon The Blog Silence

Sorry for the silence around the blog lately.

I can guarantee there has not been actual silence around our home. We have had birthdays, visitors and Spring break.

Basically we have had tons and tons of fun!

I am now up to my eyeballs in planning our last birthday party in the a long line of birthdays.

A Charlie Brown party is harder to put together than you would imagine. I am 15% done and I have roughly 5 days left.

Hopefully you will see my face around here whilst I party plan my fanny off...which is much needed after a very yummy Spring Break and Easter.

Have a great Monday!

Four Years Old

Happy Birthday Little.

You make everyday so much fun. We find ourselves in 

constant laughter and awe of your cuteness.

You are super affectionate and kind.

You have the funniest facial expressions.

This last year you experienced:

The arrival of a new baby brother.

Swimming lessons.

Camping.

Starting preschool.

Developing a lazy eye.

Getting glasses.

Rocking said glasses.

We are blessed to have you in our lives, and can't imagine a day without

you in it. We wait for your small and genuine "I love you" every day, never

disappointed you say it happily.

For at least a month you have been thanking Heavenly Father

that your birthday is almost here. 

I hope your birthday answers your sweet little prayer and we showed you

how special you are to all of us.

A Pinteresting Wednesday: Pinata Letters

Welcome to A Pinteresting Wednesday here at Just Another Day in Paradise.

I love Pinterest.

Who doesn't.

I especially love Pinterest for planning parties. I have a whole board for general party ideas. I also make a new board for every party that I have coming up.

The most recent party--A Turning Uno Mexican Fiesta

I referenced my Mexican Fiesta Party board quite a lot for ideas and jumping off inspiration.

Quite a few of the ideas I used were from a Mexican Cinco de Mayo wedding posted on Ruffled.

I pretty much loved every detail. E.V.E.R.Y. detail.

One of the details I loved the most were the pinata letters. The idea seemed so simple and I loved how they looked.

So I set out to make a set of Pinata Letters.

I bought letters at a craft store.

I bought tissue paper in all the right Fiesta colors.

I unfolded individual sheets of tissue paper and cut strips following the fold lines.

I folded all the strips in half lengthwise and ran a gluestick across the top to stick the top together.

Repeat with all the colors.

Cut little strips at the folded edge, 2/3 the way down towards the bottom.

Once you have cut all the strips it is time to glue the strips to the letters. Start at the bottom. Glue and wrap one layer at a time. Then layer another one so the ruffle is just above the bottom ruffle.

I did two layers of each color.

Repeat until the letter is completely covered. I used five colors total. Sometimes you have to wrap creatively. Once I got to the top I wrapped over the excess edge like a birthday present and glued it down.

One letter down...

...a few more to go.

Hubby said I should give a disclaimer that this project might take a little time. Eh...nothing a few episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond can't take care of.

Gotta say, it was totally worth the time.

Do you use Pinterest to help plan your parties? Man it is such a great place for PINspiration.

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