Night Owl Party - Agenda - Part 1

A special thank you to my dear friend, Ashely Harris, for always being so generous with her handwriting! Ashely made the agenda sign for me.

I had loads of "plans" for the Night Owl Sleepover party! If they all worked out and happened, GREAT, if NOT, it just meant that the girls were having fun entertaining themselves. I was okay with either, but I didn't want them just walking around the house bored to death, so I made sure to have Plan A in place, just incase their Plan B never evolved.

First Up... "Let's Go To The Movies".  I was so super excited to take not just ONE, but four girls to see Cinderella. I am NOT a movie buff, but I had a huge desire to go see this movie, in the theater, with Lilah. We started the party off by greeting our guests and loading up my van to see Cinderella.  We blasted the music in my van, sang our little hearts out, and then we arrived.  I prepared a few movie theater snacks and we also purchased the largest re-fillable popcorn!

The movie was great! About midway through the movie however, Lilah was getting a little anxious to leave.  She was so excited to have her friends over and to just have fun! We did watch the entire movie though!! It was a tad longer than I had expected, so I could see why Liley was getting antsy.

The next plan, after the movie, was to eat dinner, but naturally, everyone was full. So... Lilah requested to open gifts.  

Lilah's presents were truly her guests presence, but her friends did bless her with some material items.  She couldn't wait to see what they were.

The first gift she opened was from Cami.  Cami bought her a beautiful piece of jewelry, from a downtown jewelry store.  It was a bracelet similar to an Alex and Ani bracelet with her initial dangling from it... a "L". What a special gift that will last literally a lifetime.

 You can tell Lilah really liked it.  

Next up, a gift from Ansley! Ansley bought Lilah her first monogrammed shirt and gave her $6 in cash, since that's the age she was turning.  

Lilah: "You Were 5, And Added 1, Now You Are 6 Let's Have Some Fun! Love, Ansley

 LBA

Lilah received a gift from daddy.  It was something she had been wanting for weeks and weeks. Darren gave her the "Teen Beach" movie soundtrack.

Taylor gave Lilah a really cool gift.  It was a HUGE scrapbooking set. This is a hobby that Lilah has really been enjoying lately. I don't believe Taylor knew that, but her gift was so appreciated.

I bought Lilah a camping set for her American girl dolls.  I thought it was a perfect gift considering the fact that Lilah and her friends would be "glam camping" later that night!

After Lilah opened her gifts, there was a little bit of time for "Flying Lessons" aka Trampoline Fun! The twins had just recently received a trampoline for their birthday, but being able to share it with friends, other than neighbors, hadn't happened yet. You can see from the photos below, the trampoline provided a ton of laughter and fun! 

Jumping for Joy!

Happiness is jumping on a trampoline!

The girls made up their own games and blasted pop music on a wireless speaker to make these flying lessons that much more fun! I think the party could have ended here and they would have ALL had a blast.

It really brought me joy to see Lilah spend many, many, many hours with several of those special girls in her life.  Being Liley doesn't have a sister, I know the greatest gift she received during her party was the fellowship between these girls. The party agenda didn't end there, but I will have to do these posts in parts otherwise the post will be too long!  Be on the look out for Part 2.

Night Owl Party - Dessert!

The Night Owl Party dessert consisted of cupcakes and a small ice cream "bar".  Being there were only 4 guests, it wasn't really WORTH making cupcakes.  My cupcake recipe makes about 23 cupcakes and I did NOT want to be left with all of those left overs.  So, I went to our popular cupcake bakery...Bubblecake! The server, at Bubblecake, was really kind and accommodating. I wanted the color scheme, of the cupcakes' frosting, to match the party's color scheme, so she had to make me my own cupcake combinations. LOL!  I was able to get a purple, blue, green, and pink frosted cupcake. I also purchased two chocolate flavored cupcakes.  

Of course I couldn't stop there.  I needed the cupcakes to contain something owly and something cheetah like.  If you look at the above photo, you will spot the cheetah cupcake liners.  Again, I almost fell to the floor when I spotted them at JoAnn Fabrics.  It matched perfect with the invitations and pre-party gift's wrapping paper.  

The fondant owls came from a very talented fondant crafter, Shannon Bridger, on Etsy, called Vintage Vanilla Cafe.

If you'd like to have these toppers for your little girl's party, I still have them.  The girls didn't eat them. I'd be happy to resell them to you. Contact me.

I think the cupcakes turned out darling! AND it was really simple: simply buy pre-made, beautiful cupcakes, insert them into the cheetah liner, and top with the adorable fondant owls.

Vanilla Cupcake Cafe also created a number 6 fondant topper, for the birthday girl. Can you tell that she made the topper to look like the cheetah print? I love keeping things consistent with the theme.  

I also provided an ice cream lazy Susan for the girls.  I chose chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, and coffee ice cream.  I'll let you guess which flavor was for the adult guest.

The toppings were butterfly gummies.

Colored sprinkles.

Pecans.

Cherries.

Mini Chocolate Chips.

Purple and Pink candies.

Granola pieces.

A party is not a party without cake AND

Ice Cream.

This part of the party was pretty HECTIC. The candles were lit. The memory on my cell phone was limited. It was dark, in the room, per the birthday girl's request, so my camera wouldn't cooperate due to the dark room, the girls wanted dessert and NOW. Ugh... so I don't have a TON of photos for one of the MOST important aspects for the birthday girl's photo album. Enjoy what I was able to capture with all the challenges/barriers.

I don't have any photos of the bigger girls.  :(

Designing their own ice cream sundaes.  

Ansley isn't a HUGE cake fan, but she sure did dig into those cupcakes mighty fast.  

Again, non of my devices were cooperating with me.  So, I was only able to capture some of the guests and Liley's mommy/daddy serenading her with, the "Happy Birthday" song!