Life & Stories of Cody, Emily, & Lucy Jane: Lucy's Candyland

Lucy Jane turned 3 a few weeks ago & we threw her a little candyland birthday party! I can't believe that she is 3 but there will be another post on that later, but she LOVED her party! Because of crazy rain we had to move her party into the YL building & I was pretty bummed about it at first but it actually turned out better. I love planning parties, it really is fun for me. I know that our life is crazy a lot of times during the year & I probably miss a lot of things with my kids that I should be there for but I try. I really want there to be memorable things from their childhood & I feel like birthday parties are some of those memorable things. I want them to know that they are loved & I want them to feel like people celebrate them & who they are & to me that is what a birthday is all about celebrating that person & I want Lucy & Miles to feel like we celebrate them. So all that to say here are some pictures of sweet Lucy's candyland.

Lucy's little cake, she requested a pink & purple cake so this cake was purple on the inside!

Some of the decor

Food & drinks, we kept it pretty simple- just cake, cupcakes, cakeballs (thanks Grammy!) lemonade, & water

I created a game of candyland for the kids to play & had a few different places they could stop at. These decorations were fun & super easy to make. I had some of these boards left over from a project for church I was working on with some friends so I printed out the candyland characters on transparencies & put them on an overhead projector & painted them. They turned out a lot better than I thought they would.