Whitney's 3rd Birthday... Minnie Mouse Party!

Whitney turned 3!

 She was so excited the week prior so I let her open a few presents early as potty treats.

 I did a "Minnie Mouse Bow-tique" party.

Here is her party invite:

Our welcome on the front door:

 The party table (my favorite thing to decorate for parties)

 I had bows everywhere!

Here is my cuties anxiously awaiting the 1st party guest to arrive. 

 We had bow-tie pasta to go with the "bow" theme.

 After lunch I had all of the kids color a picture of Minnie Mouse.

 Then "bedazzle" a bow for pin the bow on Minnie Mouse.

(There's episodes on Minnie's Bow-tique show where they bedazzle all of the bows.)

 After that they got to bedazzle a bow for themselves as one of their party favors.

The boys had blue bow ties to decorate.

Here's another cute bow I made for all of the girls.

 For our last game we played bingo w/ jelly beans.  

The kids loved being able to sneak jelly beans while they played.

CAKE TIME!

 There was a lot of cute ideas out there for Minnie Mouse, but I wanted to keep it super simple this year.  I did chocolate & strawberry cupcakes & then the main cake was a layered angel food cake w/ one of my favorite recipes.  It was super yummy!  I altered the recipe a bit by putting cool whip as the frosting as the original recipe has only toasted almonds on the outside.  I'll probably do that again!

 I made decorated one of Whitney's chairs to be the birthday girl chair & she was pretty cute insisting she sit in it all day & every time she opened a present.

 After presents I gave all of the kids a Minnie or Mickey Mouse wand that I made & taught let them help me do some magic tricks.  They were pretty impressed & wanted to do it over & over!

 Birthday girl & all of her loot!