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Callie's 7th Birthday!

I cannot believe Callie is 7 years old. It's really just crazy to me! It doesn't seem like it was that long ago she was a tiny baby just like Skylar. But here it is, 7 years later!

Callie apparently decided that I needed a good challenge for her seventh birthday. She asked me to do a "Forest Friends" theme. Forest friends?? I guess at least the fox has been popular lately. But seriously, it was not an easy theme to find anything for!


Here's our table decor. Fortunately, I did not have to buy a whole lot to pull this together! 


Table with the chalkboard in the background. I made the butterflies out of tissue paper.






Our games and craft. Games were Forest Friends Bingo and Musical Mushrooms (musical chairs with mushroom caps instead of chairs). Our craft was a fox face on a paper plate.


Callie was really impressed with my artwork . . . I'm sure no one else is! lol


Dessert table decor



Our awesome bakery pulled off such cute and delicious cupcakes once again that go perfectly with the theme!


The birthday girl in one of her birthday presents, which she says is her new favorite sweater.

We had 16 of Callie's friends from church and school. We were so happy that her friends got to come over and have a special time with her. Thanks everyone! 

We're going to have our "extended family" party this next Sunday. It got delayed due to lousy weather conditions on Sunday, so I'll have more pictures to add next week! 

Hope you enjoyed our update! God bless you and yours this week!

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