Annika's 4th birthday!

Last month Annika turned four. We decided to throw her a birthday party since last year her birthday consisted of a store-bought cake and one sick mama. It was lame. I wanted to make sure she had a good birthday this year. We decided on a Kitty Party theme because she loves cats and acts like a cat for 90% of each day. My super nice friend Sarah made me a really cute kitty invitation which turned out really cute.

 We had each of the kids adopt a kitty. We gave them adoption papers and had them choose a name for their kitty which we then wrote on shrinky dink paper to put on their collars.

Then they could take their kitty to the vet and check them out and give them their shots.

 Annika picking out her kitty.

Their was lots of kitty food of course. It wasn't very healthy! We had Kitty chow, cheerios, swedish fish, goldfish crackers, cheese cubes, grapes and tuna fish sandwiches. 

She opened some presents, they were all kitty themed. :)

I tried to make her a cake. It was supposed to mimic yarn balls. I tried. It tasted pretty good though. 

Here is most of the party-goers. We might have missed one or two. We gave everyone a little box with their kitties in it with some little toys for it as party gifts.

Happy Birthday Banana!

Welcome to Annika's birthday party...

Here is the birthday girl!

Compared to a year ago: (she's wearing pretty much the same thing)

Annika's best friends were in attendance:

Ezra

Mom

and Dad.

Every princess needs a royal table setting

and a crown (that I totally copied from nienie)

Here was the spread. It was dinner fit for a two year old. (I copied this too)

I think she was excited.

I made Ezra his own party crown so he wouldn't feel left out.

Annika likes her birthdays.

I took a billion photos of her. I just thought she looked so beautiful.

Singing Happy Birthday...

and blowing out the candles. Which she did it all on her own.

I had high hopes for this cake. I thought about Annika's birthday a lot but really didn't prepare much. However, I did spend a lot of time trying to figure out what the perfect cake would be for her, since that is usually the centerpiece of the occasion. I ended up making one from scratch with a recipe that was called The Perfect Chocolate Cake. So although it doesn't look all that great, it tasted really good.

Look how dignified Annika ate her cake this year. It's a little different than last year...

Here she is on her first birthday. She didn't even use her hands. She just dove her face in!

In case you were wondering, Annika got this kitchen set for her birthday. Both of the kids love it a lot.

The end. Until next year.