Dora Explosion!!

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY CARMEN!!

Carmen is 4!! Hard to believe that the little heathen could have made it this far but she has. :0) She loves Dora the Explorer and Diego so we stuck with that theme this year. It was a budget party (as most things are right now) and I was amazed that with some time, bargain hunting, and some thought it ended up only costing about $50 for the whole party including purchasing a cake (I know, I know.. but I was busy this time around, next year I will make her cake) AND a large large arrangement of balloons!! Go me!

I set up everything the night before after the girls had gone to bed and so got to see the surprise on her face when she got up in the morning. I caught it on tape since Daddy couldn't be there to share in the moment, enjoy...

The decorations were very bright to put it mildy. Carmen loved every minute of it. She just had to get in on this picture. She is such a cheese!

The opposite wall had these 4 foot tall characters. They were surprisingly cheap (about $4) and since they are so large the make a big statement. Again Carmen loved them, she tried to talk me into putting them up in her bedroom, but I couldn't imagine her sleeping with these things staring at her all the time.

I had purchased ball pit balls years ago for a party and am glad i have held onto them till now. blew up our little kiddy pool and added the balls to it. The girls dove in first thing and then all the kids fought over space in the pool for the rest of the day. Carmen was rather unimpressed with me the next morning when I had put it away.