{"id":3852,"date":"2012-01-09T07:02:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2012-01-09T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T07:04:22","slug":"dump-truck-hello-kitty-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/dump-truck-hello-kitty-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump Truck & Hello Kitty Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right before Christmas, my sister and I realized that we needed to have Truett and AnnaLeigh’s birthday parties asap, because both of us are due in January.\u00a0 Truett’s birthday is February 11, and last year we did a joint Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party<\/a>, and it worked out beautifully.\u00a0 We have the same guest list, so we might as well combine our efforts, plus the kids love doing their parties together!<\/p>\n

I asked AnnaLeigh what kind of party she wanted, and she said she and Truett wanted a Hello Kitty Party.\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 I’m not sure that would be Truett’s first choice.\u00a0 She disagreed.\u00a0 I tried to convince her to do something else, but she wanted a Hello Kitty party just like Lilly Katherine had a few years ago.\u00a0 Why argue.\u00a0 I decided to let the girl have the party she wanted.<\/p>\n

Truett’s very into big trucks and dump trucks, and we decided that we didn’t have to have a unified theme.\u00a0 They could both have their own theme…at the same party.\u00a0 They could literally have their cake and eat it too! :)<\/p>\n

In typical Kate fashion, I was running late.\u00a0 As our families started to arrive for the party I was not all the way dressed, had no make-up on, hadn’t fixed my hair, was in the process of “decorating” (if you can even call it that), and I was scribbling “AnnaLeigh” on the cake.\u00a0 Why oh why can’t I just be ready on time?!?!<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is our Dump Truck and Hello Kitty Birthday Party.<\/p>\n

My mom and I made the invitations, which were a dump truck invitation with a Hello Kitty driver.\u00a0 The “dirt” pulled up and out for party details.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The rocks in the front end loader and the Hello Kitty Pops are both Oreo balls, which are so flipping delicious! \"\"<\/a>Here are my very imperfect Hello Kitty Oreo Balls.\u00a0 I know most people use cake, but I prefer Oreos…plus they’re way easier.\u00a0 I just copied this <\/a>design.\u00a0 Not too difficult.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My girl…she loved the Hello Kitty “cake pops.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ash made Truett’s precious dump truck shirt.\u00a0 I used the Hello Kitty Pillowcase dress I made for Lilly Katherine a few years ago.\u00a0 AnnaLeigh was excited to wear it, and I was excited to recycle it.\u00a0 Win-Win! :)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The cakes!\u00a0 Ashley made delicious “dirt” for her dump truck!\u00a0 Boy-moms, this is the greatest cake ever!\u00a0 I did this for Preston’s 4th birthday.\u00a0 Just buy a cute dump truck (it will also double as a gift) and fill it with “edible dirt”…Oreos, brownies, heath bits, peanut butter chips, and pudding.\u00a0 Serve it with a little plastic shovel.\u00a0 Easy and delicious!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My cake was not as successful…or easy!\u00a0 The cake tasted great, but something went wrong and I didn’t have the patience to figure out what!\u00a0 I was icing the cake at midnight (which is super early for me!) and the icing just wouldn’t stick.\u00a0 This ain’t my first rodeo, but something just wasn’t working.\u00a0 I’m so tired and uncomfortable, that when I visualized myself picking the Hello Kitty cake up and throwing it across the room I decided it was time to stop trying to ice the cake and go to sleep!\u00a0 The cake was not my best, but AnnaLeigh was excited about it and that’s<\/em> what matters.<\/p>\n

You like the chunks of icing missing?<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Pinky had to sneak a little bite of icing.\u00a0 She’s my girl!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>AnnaLeigh got a car for her Build-A-Bear from Nana,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>a giant Hello Kitty from Memama (my grandmother) that now sleeps with her,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and a “Minnie the Pooh” movie!\u00a0 :)\u00a0 We watched it in the theatre<\/a> and she loved it!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The guests were our family.\u00a0 (Taylor and Kelly, maybe one day y’all can come join the chaos, too.)<\/p>\n

Claire and AnnaLeigh<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Caleb, Lilly Katherine, Claire, AnnaLeigh, Preston, Truett, and Garrett<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>AnnaLeigh and Mimi (my mom)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brad’s brother, “Silly Unlce Andy,” loves to harrass my girls<\/span> everyone, and he does it well.\u00a0 He was messing with AnnaLeigh and she loved it!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A pic of my Pinky and her very large and very tired mama!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m only including this because my mom says that one day I will be glad I have pictures of myself pregnant.\u00a0 I’m not sure this <\/em>is the pregnancy I would like to have documented, but here goes.\u00a0 AnnaLeigh asked Ash and I to take a picture back to back, so we did!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>OUCH!\u00a0 I look miserable (as my grandmother points out every.single.time.i.see.her!)\u00a0 Brad also might have said to me this weekend, “It just looks like your belly is hanging!”\u00a0 YES DEAR!\u00a0 It IS!!!\u00a0 Oh my, I’m having a contraction just thinking about that conversation!<\/p>\n

Soon and very soon we will meet this new little one and I will officially have 4 kids…and 3 KIDS’ birthdays to celebrate in January!\u00a0 Woohoo!<\/p>\n

Happy Birthday AnnaLeigh and Truett!\u00a0 Let’s keep those double birthday parties going as long as possible! :)<\/p>\n

-kate<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Right before Christmas, my sister and I realized that we needed to have Truett and AnnaLeigh’s birthday parties asap, because both of us are due in January.\u00a0 Truett’s birthday is February 11, and last year we did a joint Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party, and it worked out beautifully.\u00a0 We have the same guest list, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}