Last weekend we celebrated our daughter's 12th birthday and my amazing father-in-law's 91st birthday. He graciously allowed the celebrations to be combined. :-) In our family we do big friend parties every other year, and this was our daughter's year for just a "small" family party. We let her invite 2 friends over to join in our family celebration, and they had fun spray painting shirts. It was easier than tie-dying and dried faster!
When the girls were finished, our boys painted shirts too.
After dinner, the kids had a silly string war. It even spilled over to the adults and my father in law got in on the action! Notice the patio. We are *still* picking up silly string from the patio!
Our daughter received some lovely gifts, including this Anne of Green Gables book set from my parents. She got lots of new clothes from her other grandparents, and we gave her a new desk chair (have to wait on the desk, but she's having fun wheeling her desk chair allover her bedroom!) and certificates from my husband and me to take her on a one on one date. I also gave her my old Bible that I had received from my parents when I turned 12. She was very excited to receive such a keepsake, and told me later that one day if she has a daughter, she'll give it to her when she turns 12!
Happy Birthday to our sweet girl! We love the girl you are and the young woman you are becoming! You have brought us such joy, and we are very proud of you.
awwwwww - how special that G & her g'pa have been around each other all these years to celebrate their birthdays together.
ReplyDeletei'm curious about the spray-painting... can you give more details about that??
I'd love details too. I've never seen spray paint like those cans before.w
ReplyDeleteIt was a kit that we found at Hobby Lobby in their craft section. It had 7 bottles of different colors in the box, that were aerosol pump bottles. We followed the directions and just went for it! Basically you scrunch up the shirt and spray, open it up, scrunch it up another way and spray again with a different color, etc. It dried in about 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteFyi, if you do this, wear dark colored clothing in the event you accidentally spray or drip on your clothes (not easily washable), and cover your work surface with a PAPER cloth rather than plastic. The excess paint just sat on top of the plastic and soaked up into anything that we set down. And lastly, buy a light colored shirt to spray paint. Two of our boys chose black shirts and once the paint was dry you couldn't see it. Very, very fun!
awww, how very special that you were able to give her such a treasured keepsake (your Bible). That is so sweet!
ReplyDeleteThe party looks like F.U.N!! Happy Belated Birthday G!