the staples story: {and then she was five.. }

Monday, April 4, 2016

{and then she was five.. }

my little rowan is five! how can this be? i'm in total denial. last year around her birthday, we had just found out i was pregnant (surprise to us!), and we were two weeks away from moving into our new house, so i took it easy and said we were going to have an "off" year with the birthday's. (and much to my surprise, i stuck with it!) so we went to chuck-e-cheese and called it good. well, i don't know, this year i wasn't really feeling it either. life is just crazy right now. but truly, rowan begged me to have an ariel birthday with a piñata this year, and at the last minute, i couldn't refuse anymore. so a few days before, we sent out invites. and then i made the mistake of getting on pinterest. oops.

me, go overboard on my kids birthday? no way. but rowan went out to lunch with her daddy for her birthday and as soon as she walked in and saw all of it she said "MOM! i LOVE all my decorations!!" and then asked if i could leave them up until she turned six. so, that made it all worth it. i love her so much.

i got her cute invite from this darling shop on etsy.

i bought lots of paper streamers and twisted them up the wall to make them look like seaweed, and then cut out a ton of sea creatures and taped them throughout. i also blew up a bunch of clear balloons that were different sizes and hung them up on fishing wire so that they looked like they were bubbles. they were my favorite! i hung an octopus from the ceiling, and a couple jellyfish as well. it really felt like we were UNDER THE SEA! (wink).