Getting Tangled Up in Sydnee's 4th Birthday

My little girl turned 4 this year... wow! You'd never know it by looking at her size but boy is she a cute 4 year old..and a sassy one, but we love her! She's been practicing all week holding up "4" fingers now instead of "3" fingers for when people ask her how old she is, so cute.

The kids always love seeing their pictures of themselves at each age to see how they've grown.

 

Our kids get a birthday party on even years and then a date with Mom and Dad on odd years so that I'm not getting worn out by doing birthday parties every year. Brilliant idea, I know, but that's the way I grew up and we really liked that idea so we stuck with it. Sydnee wanted a Tangled/Rapunzel themed birthday party this year. So my first mistake (or triumph) was logging on to Pinterest to find Tangled themed party ideas. That sparked my creativity and I went a little crazy.

I created this cute Rapunzel birthday invitation...

I braided about 75 feet of hair (which was 12 strands of yarn braided together to make it thick enough) to drape all over the hallway, dining room and family room and over the front door. Sydnee's friends thought it was so cool to see Rapunzel's hair all over our house when they walked in to the party! Even Sydnee thought it looked just like the movie, which meant I had done a good enough job.

 

I also made 8 lanterns just like the movie to hang from the ceiling; and during the party, the kids each got make their own lantern to take home.

 

Then the cake. I treated myself this year and bought a Rapunzel cake instead of making myself go crazy trying to create a towered birthday cake. I figured the bakery did a fine job.

 

It took Syd forever to blow out her candles because as you can see in the picture, every time she would blow her lips turned UP instead of down to the candles. Pretty hilarious. Benson and William next to her were getting ready to help her out.

At the end of the party each girl guest went home with a tiara and long braid attached to it--just like Rapunzel--to wear in her hair that Grace and Hallie are modeling...

 

And each boy went home with a satchel just like Eugene in the movie that Grandma Drake made. These were actually left over from Hallie's scavenger hunt b-day party earlier in the year and I just thought these worked out perfectly for the boys!

And all guests got some Rapunzel paints to take home. I was so pleased with the way it turned out and the kids... especially the girls LOVED going home with their party favors. 

It's hard to get an organized group picture of seven 4-year-olds so this was as good as it gets...

(From left to right: Grace, William, Benson on the glider, Anna, Sydnee, Donny, Anna W.)

Sydnee loved all her presents, but her favorite was "the shooting gun thingy" (a.k.a. a Nerf gun) which is one of the presents she was really hoping for. When she opened it she screamed, "This is the shooting gun thingy I wanted!" Haha, Cam didn't know whether to be excited that one of his kids wanted a Nerf gun or worried because it was his daughter asking for it instead of his son.

Cam and I got her her first training wheeled bike that had a bag on the front of it. Can you guess the first thing she did? Yep, filled it up with her "stuff."

Hallie gave Sydnee her first set of Lego Friends (mostly so that she wouldn't have to share hers anymore with Syd).

I think Syd had a memorable Tangled party ;) Happy birthday to our big girl!! We love you!