Leap Turn and Twirl

A couple of years ago I through Brooklyn a Mermaid birthday party that was crazy and over the top. So I thought it would be good to do one more for Nikell and Presly to even it out. My last party was featured on a party website, Kara's party ideas, and it won a contest which was exciting! I have vendors that help me put it on and they trade work with me which makes the cost not as much and it motivates me to go even bigger with all the party decorations and plans. Nikell has always been my little dancer. She loves to sing and dance all the time, she turns my music on from my cell phone, watches herself in the glass covering the fireplace and dances and dances and dances! She loves her ballet class and when I asked her what she wanted the theme to be for her birthday party she said without hesitation, ballerina. Nikell loves her balle teacher so I asked her if she wanted to come and teach the girls a ballet dance. The plans for this party took me about 4 months to plan and at times it was a little overwhelming but it turned out to be a beautiful party and the girls loved it. Presly had fun too and just loved all the attention she got from everyone. She looked cute as ever in her little birthday hat! The one thing that I was really stressing over is how to make a dance stage. We thought about renting one but it would have been like 700-800 dollars and we weren't about to spend that much on a stage. So after a lot of thought and different ideas I was driving home from picking up decorations and an idea popped in my head. Why not turn the trampoline upside down and make it the dance stage. It turned out perfectly and also solved the problem of how we were going to get the trampoline out of the way. Killed two birds with one stone;). A few of my other favorite things were the ballet bar with little tutu's for each girl hanging on it. The cute little garden posts that had ribbon hung on them lining the walk way to the backyard. All the little details just made this party so fun. Another idea that came to me at a very random time was one night right before I fell asleep I was trying to think of some fun ideas and naming the dessert table "The Ballet Bar" came in my head. I thought it was a unique and fun name for the dessert and drink table. So not only were all the decorations fun but the girls had a great time too. It was fun I think for the parents to get invited to the end of the party to watch the ballet recital and to have treats with us. This party was a ton of work but ended up being a hit. Nikell had a blast with all her friends and Presly enjoyed it all too. IT was fun having Grandma Goeckeritz, Great Grandma Cram and Great Aunt vicki there for it also!