7th Bday Party - Frozen

We held off on having Ella's family birthday celebration until dance recital weekend, which was this past weekend.  It was 90+ degrees out both Friday and Saturday, so it was HOT! 

I had a great time finding items fit for the Frozen party.  We had a ton of Frozen stuff at home already, so I just picked up a few additional things to tie it all together.

I found lots of cute ideas on Pinterest and some printables from both online blogs and Etsy....

 Pin the nose on Olaf!  More pics later...

I had to cut out A LOT of stuff, including some photo props, but it was fine!  

Obviously Ella and I had to try them out before the big event!

There was a cool banner that I placed above the fireplace with the Arrendale castle motifs and other Frozen-esque decor, but I forgot to snap a picture!!  Shoot.  In case you want to print one of your own (ours is going to now decorate the toy room) here is a link.

 I put together "Do you want to build a snowman" kits for favors using a tag I modified...

And before the party started, Chase and Ella tried it out....ta da!

Grandma had to help with getting frosting to hold it all together, but they had a good time!

 Olaf with the noses...

 More party decorations...

And we did water balloons with a sign I found online with Olaf saying "Watch Out for my Butt!" (HA!)

Party food! We served sandwiches (build your own) with all the fixings, carrots and dip (a/k/a Olaf's noses), pretzels (a/k/a Sven's antlers), chips and macaroni salad for lunch (forgot to snap a picture!)

Dessert Table

 We ordered a DQ ice cream cake, which turned out cute, but I was hoping for a bit more decoration

I made snowflake sugar cookies which we decorated with colored sugars in the party color scheme

and I also made Queen Elsa popcorn (popped popcorn drizzled in Wilton Candy Melts with added white and blue sprinkles!)

Pictures with the birthday girl!

We had a smaller than usual crowd this year because of work schedules and other events, but we still had a great time!  Ella got some fun gifts and did a great job reading her own cards this year!

 Papa Gary made her a chest to store things in, which is engraved on the lid.  Pretty sweet!

p.s. you can sort of see that banner I made in these pictures!!

 And then we were able to get outside and splash some water balloons!

FUN!