Serenity's First Day of School

Wow this post has been long overdue! I've just been physically and emotionally tired lately. I may be getting surgery on my shoulder in the near future...its been giving me terrible pain. I do however have several reviews and a giveaway in the works so stay tuned! Anyway enough about myself.

Serenity is now attending Kindergarten! I cannot believe she has grown so fast. Time just flies by when you have children. She has been excited for while to start school and bugged me almost all of July asking if school was starting yet. We went to her open house the Friday before school started and she got to meet her teacher and see her classroom.

The first day of school I walked her to her class and kind of lingered to make sure she was ok. She told me "Ok mom you can go know, I'll see you later." I have to admit there were a few tears in my eyes as I walked back to my truck.

I realized later after I took this pic that I misspelled Kindergarten lol! I blame it on the emotion of the day haha!

Another funny thing that happened that day was the lunch I sent with her to school. I packed a sandwich, carrot sticks, a juice box, cookies and one of those applesauces that come in a pouch. She came home with the applesauce and I asked her why she didn't eat it. She replied that she was a big girl now and those were for babies. I cracked up but it was also sad because she is so grown up now.

Moms, cherish every minute with your children...they go by so fast!

Serenity's Tangled Party

My beautiful little Serenity turned 5 last week! It took me quite a while to plan her party, but it turned out awesome and she had a great time.

I got her a Tangled shirt to wear for the party. Isn't she pretty!?

 

 

 I had a table laid out with a poster for each girl. There were crayons and markers to make art like Rapunzel did in the movie. They also got a foam wand to decorate with glitter shapes.

 

I made each girl a long braid from yellow yarn and glued it to a headband.

 

 

This was our marvelous food table!

 

 

I handpainted a cardboard sign to be like the "Snuggly Duckling" on the movie. I cut the duck out of paper but painted the rest.

 

 

I made cupcakes and dyed the frosting green. I added a fake purple flower on top. The stand was also handmade from cardboard, styrofoam rounds and purple wrapping paper.

 

 

 I made jello boats from blue jello, half a mandarin orange and a toothpick with a purple flag.

 

We also had chips and dip, meats and cheese and fruit all served in frying pans. Notice the golden flower in the back? Yep got that in there too. (If you have seen the movie Tangled you will get the significance of it haha) I made brownie cake pops as well. I stuck them in styrofoam floral blocks covered in purple wrapping paper.

 

 

One of the games we did was pick a duck from the tub. If you got the duck with an X you got a prize!

We also played "Throw pascal in the pan". The girls threw rubber lizards into a frying pan.

 

 

This was our present table. I made the tower in the back from a pringles can, paper, yarn and fake moss. I wish I had gotten a better pic of it, it was a pain to make but turned out really cool!

 

 

I love her face, she was so excited about everything!

 

 

And here is the masterpiece tower my hubby and I made. He constructed it out of cardboard and I painted it and attached flowers and yarn hair.

 

 

Fun times!