Happy Birthday Alaina and Ruby!

It was Alaina's 4th birthday on Saturday.  Ruby will turn one on November 5.  We had a birthday party for the two of them Saturday evening.  Laura and Aaron had it in a big room at their church, so that both Aaron's family and all of us could be there.  Laura is very creative, and it was such a cute party.   Warning - lots of pictures!

Alaina watching for her people to arrive.

 This was a farm themed birthday party.

 There was a "petting zoo":

Here's the animals behind the fence...

 Each child that came got an egg carton...

They had to find baby chicks that were hidden all over the room.

 There's one!

 The kids searching for chicks.

Here's Alaina's full carton of chicks.  Inside the chicks were animal temporary tattoos.

 There were lots of farm books scattered around.

Laura made headbands for the kids (and a few adults) to wear.  You could be a cow, rooster or sheep.

 Here's Laura and Ruby modeling their rooster and sheep headbands.

 The kids decorated pumpkins.

Hard at work!

 The adorable cake Laura made.

And the cute cupcakes she made...

 Time to eat!  We had hot dogs, pulled pork, pigs in the blanket, deviled eggs, cider...  So good!

These little pails were on each table with chex mix in them.

These were also on the table for everyone to take home.  There were yummy drop cookies in the containers.

Time for presents! (Do you see that Ruby's hair is starting to lay down?)

Ruby testing out our gift.  She climbs on everything!

Ruby watching people leave.  What a fun night to celebrate our little darlings!