Karter's 4th Birthday Party

Karter had a WONDERFUL 4th birthday part y!  He loves firemen/firetrucks, so he chose to have a fireman themed party.  It was perfect.  His face lit up the entire time. 

I had his party planned, invitations sent out, Chamber booked, Firestation booked, cake ordered, etc. and found out that Heidi's dance recital was the same night of his party.  Well I went into a slight panic mode.  I had to get my calendar back out & call the chamber to make sure we could re-schedule it for a day that Kyle was home.  The only date that was available before he left was Thursday night, April 25th. 

To be honest, it was great having it on a week night.  No one's weekend was messed up.  I didn't spend my Friday preparing, my Saturday setting up, and my Sunday afternoon cleaning.  Even I got to enjoy my weekend.  Not only that, it was easy peasy doing it at the Chamber and not our house.  May rent that more often. 

Once everyone ate (pizza was served) and had cake, we all went down for a firetruck tour :)!  Fireman Cory let Karter do the sirens and lights.  He was in a little 4 year old fireman Heaven.  That made his whole World. 

Enjoy the pictures......

I loved this part of his party.  I was trying to think of things the kids could do while we waited for everyone to get there and before the tour and my friend, Whitney, came up with this idea of doing everyone's hand prints.  I absolutely love it and will always cherrish it.  I already had the black board and I just painted the little firetruck (Engine #4 hehe) and we were good to go.

I've been seeing this at 1st birthday parties, but I thought why not start it and have it at all of their parties? Would be incredibly neat to look back on.  So I got me a board, chalk painted it, and vuah-lah!

They each got little fireman hats as they got there :)!! Also had coloring sheets to doodle on.

Y'all know I gotta have my sanitizer all dazzled up hehe!

Love this picture of Sophie and Grandmama.  Sophie Girl LOVES Grandmama.

Ashton and Caroline doing her prints and then look how precious Sara Catherine and her new American Girl Doll are :)!!

Great picture of Drew, Yana, and Mallory ........

This is a beautiful picture of Jamie Leigh, Momma, and Aunt Becky.... oh and Uncle Jimmy doing the bunny ears hehe.....

 

Tyler got several snap shots of Heidi Bug on her ipod.  She was "too cool" for some of the party LOL.



And then clean up time :)!  Brayden and Karter played.... well okay.... they all fussed (LOL) as we cleaned up. 





And you guessed it..... Heidi played on her ipod.  

I would say his party was a huge success.  He thought it was awesome so that's all that matters :)!! Very easy, very sterss free, and very fun party!