Happy Birthday Zoe

This year Zoe really wanted to have Birthday Party with her friends. She had attended a few of her friends' princess parties and wanted to have on of her own. Except she also wanted to invite some boys to attend. Not knowing how to include boys in a really girly party, we tried to come up with another fun alternative. It just so happened we had checked out a book from the library that had a few fun stories with recipes included. Our favorite stories out of the book were "If you give a Pig a Pancake" and "If you give a Moose a Muffin." Zoe commented that it would be fun to make sock puppets sometime like they do in "If you Give a Moose a Muffin," giving me a good idea for her party. Between the two of us, Dan and I put together the perfect boy/girl party: we would read the story, make Moose Mud Muffins (instead of cake), then make sock puppets and put on a puppet show. Just like they do in the book. It just so happened that her Birthday fell on a Monday this year, so we decided to invite two families over and celebrate during FHE.

Dan put together these cute invitations.

The invites and packages ready to be delivered.

Our cute delivery people in their handy Moose Antlers. I thought it would be fun to have antlers instead of party hats. Dan figured out how to make the idea a reality and made them for all the guests.

The Moose Mud Muffin ingredients.

The baking crew: Noah, Erik, Kysha, and Zoe. Unfortunately the Steffens were unable to join us for the festivities.

The muffins all ready to be put in the oven. The kids got to show their uniqueness and creativity by adding their own candy to the top.

Hot out of the oven. They tasted and had the texture of brownies. We ended up pairing them with Moose Track Ice Cream.

Opening the gifts. She thought it was torture that I made her wait until the party to open her gifts. Since they were sitting on top of the TV all day.

I took this one to torture the boys with one day. I think Noah and Erik had just as much fun, if not more fun, than the girls did playing with Zoe's new My Little Pony Sweet's Shop.

Dan was in charge of making the sock puppets. He did such a great job supervising all of the kids.

Noah figuring out how to design his puppet.

Erik trying to figure out where to put the antennas on his alien puppet.

Zoe coloring away.

Jack slept through most of the party. Here he is in his Moose outfit. The kids insisted he wear this outfit for the party, since it has a moose wearing tennis shoes.

Kambrie telling Jack to be more quiet.

Kysha's puppet. Love the spider like hair.
Zoe's puppet.
Gretta, the puppet Dan made for Kambrie.
Dan showing them how it is done.
Kambrie enjoying her puppet.

The kids putting on a puppet show. Most of their shows involved their puppets singing Primary Songs like: "Follow the Prophet," and "I Am A Child of God."

The gang in their Moose Antlers.

The Birthday Girl. I can't believe my little girl is already 4 years old.

Thank you to the Christensen family for joining us in our crazy celebration. I know we all had fun, hope you did too.