Girls Birthdays and Rockstar Party

The girls decided last year that they wanted to do a karaoke party for their birthday. They love singing and dancing so it made perfect sense. Lily requested a stage for her present. So we decided to throw a joint party for them.

Having a karaoke party in our dingy basement didn't make much sense... that was one of the catalysts for our basement update. It is definitely what pushed us to work nights and weekends to make sure everything came together in time. 

In order to make it work, we did have to push the party to mid-October.

In the meantime we were still able to celebrate each girl on their actual birth day.

For Josie, we had a small little party

Even Jack's classmates wrote Josie birthday cards

Josie modeling her new outfits

Nani and Papi brought her a smash cake

It is becoming a favorite tradition

On Lily's birthday, we brought Chick-fil-a and met her for lunch at school

Then, by request, she went to get her ears pierced. We took her to a tattoo parlor who does hand-piercings (not ear piercing with a gun). I was just as unprepared for this experience as she was.

Hand piercings looked incredibly painful, and I could barely watch. If she had not wanted to get this done, I could never have put her through that.

But, alas, she was brave and got both ears pierced!

Then we went home for cake.

A week later, the basement project was finished and we were preparing for the big party. My aunt, uncle and grandpa were all in town that weekend. The morning of the party we had a fun run that the kids and I were able to do with Kristi and Farrell.

Then, that afternoon all the little girls started showing up for the party. We had made these super cute lanyard invitations:


We had all sorts of crafts for the girls to feel like Rockstars, including hair chalk, makeup and henna tattoos. In no time, the girls were downstairs performing on stage

The adults had to fight for the microphone with the kids. Everyone loved singing on stage!

It was super loud in the basement so those who wanted to escape the noise had to head upstairs. I guess this is where the girls were for a while taking all these selfies :)

All the kids on stage

It was one heck of a party! It was a ton of planning, cooking and cleaning to pull it off, but watching the girls faces while a whole group of friends came around to celebrate them was priceless. 

I've already told Lily... I can only do a party once every 2 years. Next year she picks one friend and does something easy!