One of the unique things about my daughters is they are all born in August! (Do you like how I worded that?) Though their common birth month was completely unplanned, it has become quite a fun thing to look forward to throughout the year. When I'm explaining to people about their birthdays (which I feel I do a lot since people often ask about how close they are in age) I always joke that we did it that way so we can have ONE big party, ONE big cake and ONE big present for all three to share. I'm only partly joking. I really do like to do something special on each of their actual birthdays (even if it's just singing and having birthday cake after dinner) but having one big party to really celebrate all three is easy, cost effective and fun. And that's why I love it!
This year, we planned a little get-together at the park. Wayne wanted to do the full Tongan menu with lupulu, kalua pig and faikakai. . . but in the end, we settled on a simple teri burger/hot dog spread (my idea! haha) I'm not too good at doing themed parties (though I love to attend them), so we just planned generic, colorful, minimal decorations (with banners by Aunty Tali - thank you Tali!) and went from there. A friend in our ward owns and offered a bouncy castle, so we picked it up that morning and it was a huge hit. We had a pinata, a birthday cake and music plus, we purposefully picked a park with a playground so the kids had fun playing on that too. We asked Kika to take charge of face painting and she went above and beyond - it was definitely the highlight of the party (Thank you Kika!).
All in all, I tried not to stress about this party too much. And I think because we went so simple and small, it came together really easy and well. We had SO much fun. Seriously, the whole day afterward, Wayne and I just kept saying to ourselves, ". . . Man! That was so fun!" It was a great day to enjoy with our family and friends and just celebrate our special little girls.
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| This is my all time favorite pic of the day. Totally captured her. |
Happy Birthday Tali!
Happy Birthday Kina!
Happy Birthday Malia!
(Thank you Aunty Sili for the BEAUTIFUL pictures)
5 comments:
Love the pics and the post Mary!! What a fun fun party!!!!Wish I could have been there!!!!!
Hi Mary...The party looked like a real winner! I'm sure everyone had a great time, including the adults. Love, G.
im sad i missed their party =(( i put it in my calender long before i realized that i wasnt even going to be here! it looks like the kids had a lot of fun =))
im so glad we were able to make it! :) loove your girls!!
beautiful pictures, beautiful girls! how convenient and cool that they all have their bdays in the same month-- you and wayne are such smart planners... ;) haha!
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