The Weekend of Leah - SpongeBob Parties!!!

February 16th marked Leah's 3rd birthday! 3!!! Can you believe it? She came into this world at 1:32 am in 2010. It seems just like yesterday she was a tiny little baby. Today she is a beautiful, smart, sassy, sweet, funny, wonderful little girl. She has made our life so fulfilling and has brought us so much joy! Words can't express how much we love her. Three years have gone by in the blink of an eye!

This year, Leah has been obsessed with SpongeBob....like seriously obsessed. We have about 150 episodes on our DVR. Sometimes she'll wake up in the middle of the night and ask me to put Spongebob on for her. Sometimes I think she is still asleep when she asks. It is what she wants to watch when she first wakes up. She'll tell me about different episodes and sing the theme song. I am not sure why she is drawn to it so much. (If you are an adult and have seen the show, chances are it drives you nuts)!! We decided that we would give her a Spongebob birthday celebration this year and she was over the moon about it! For the past month, she's been telling anyone that will listen that she is having a SpongeBob party for her birthday. I was hoping she would want something a little more girly - Minnie Mouse or Disney Princesses, but since that didn't happen, I decided to run with it! Luckily, SpongeBob is pretty popular so I didn't have too much trouble finding SpongeBob related 'stuff.'

After Leah went to bed on Friday night, we decided to decorate the downstairs to surprise her when she woke up in the morning on  her birthday. We put up streamers and balloons and put out her presents. This year we decided to get her a bike for her birthday. She was so happy when she woke up in the morning. After presents, she had a yummy pink doughnut for breakfast. We put candles in it and sang 'Happy Birthday' to her!

This is what Leah woke up to in the morning! 

Leah loves her new bike! 

Disney Princess Dresses for dress-up 

Birthday Doughnut with candles

Later in the day, we had to get ready for her SpongeBob birthday party with family. We rented the clubhouse in our sub-division and attempted to turn it into 'Bikini Bottom' where SpongeBob lives. First, I had to get pictures of my littles in their SpongeBob gear before the party.

This year, I didn't have as much time as I did last year to get things together for her party. I love focusing on all of the little details, but it is time consuming. I did what I could! There were so many more things I wish I could have done!

All the food! 

Dessert Table 

Sponge Cakes (a.k.a cupcakes)

Krabby Patties (a.k.a. peanut butter cookies with frosting) 

SpongeBob Cake from Wal-Mart

Plankton Planks (a.k.a. chocolate covered pretzels)

Seanut and Jellyfish Sandwiches (a.k.a. peanut butter and jelly sandwiches)

We did a Mexican themed buffet. I made chicken and steak for tacos. I made a few appetizers and salad. I catered rice, beans, quesadillas, taquitos and guacamole from Hacienda in Bolingbrook.

Some of the centerpieces. Yellow and SpongeBob balloons were tied to it. (I forgot to take picture of the room)

The other centerpieces that I made, but forgot to take pictures of in the room. The room was full of yellow balloons and SpongeBob balloons.

 Mason and Auntie Tina

Leah and Auntie Amy 

Mason and Auntie Lisa

Annabelle! 

Lauren, Danny and sweet Izabella

Danielle, Brandon and Mase 

Auntie Melissa and Mason

Leah and her SpongeBob cake! 

She got very shy when everyone sang to her. 

Look who showed up!!! SpongeBob Square Pants!!  

 Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob Square Pants! She LOVED him!

Dancing on the sidelines!

Gavyn had a good time too! 

Mason even liked watching SpongeBob!

Love little Mase Man

Having such a good time! 

How low can you go?

Leah and Mason seemed to be the only ones in to SpongeBob

Leah started to get tired!

Leah started to open her presents, but was heading for a meltdown. We got through half of them and had to take the other half homw. Overall, I think Leah's family party was a success! Everyone seemed to have a good time. Thank you to everyone who made Leah's day extra special! By the time we got home, we were all pooped. We went to bed early to gear up for party #2 the next morning, with all of Leah's little buddies!

For Leah's kid party, we had a party at GymQuest in Plainfield. Leah LOVES it there so I thought it would be perfect to have a party there. Basically, the kids have free reign of the gym for an entire hour. They have trampolines, balance beams, foam pits, ropes, mats, inflatibles, slide and more. After running around, they have a private party room upstairs we had pizza and cupcakes. Unfortunately, Leah had a lot of friends that weren't able to make her party. We missed them! Leah had a great time and I hope all of the kids did too!

Just before leaving for her party

All of the kids at the party!

Jumping!

Vaughan! 

Gavyn loving the slide! 

And the rope! 

Julia 

Baby Evan's first party! 

Party Room 

Kid Favors 

Cupcake Cake

I am bummed that the batteries in my camera died before the party was over. I didn't get any pictures of the kids eating pizza or Leah blowing the candles out of her cake. Oh well! 



I hope Leah had a wonderful birthday weekend! We wanted her to feel special and let her know we love her to pieces! Happy Birthday to my sweet baby girl!!!