Kiara's birthday party has always been filled with tradition. We always have a small party at our house with only family and close friends. Her party always has a theme that she picks out each year. This year, she wanted a Hello Kitty theme. She was so excited about her birthday party this year, she didn't sleep at ALL the night before. She busted into our bedroom the morning of the party at 7:30 AM and said "Mom, get up! You have to work on my party!"
Everything was going well and I was ahead of schedule, thanks to my early start, but a few hours before our guests arrived she got sick. I thought it was just from being over excited about the party, but it turned out, she had a bad bug.
The day that she had been so excited about turned out to be rather horrible for her. One minute she was fine, the next she was in bad shape. I know this seems like TMI, but I wanted to explain why in the first layout she looks fine and in the next one she looks awful.
So, I did these layouts about all the things that have become tradition for Kiara's birthday parties and how I hope being sick at her party does not become one of them!
My poor baby looks so sick in the picture in the second layout. And she was! It took everything she had to blow out her candles. But, no matter how bad she felt, she wasn't about to miss out on the tradition of blowing out her candles.
I tried to keep these layouts simple (notice there is not one ribbon on either of them
) but I did scan one of the napkins from Kiara's party, altered the colors and printed it out on cardstock to use on the second page.