Ella celebrated her 10th birthday with several friends at a karaoke birthday party at the end of March. Turning 10 is a big deal, of course, so we had to make the day truly special. February and March were particularly crazy-busy times, so I thought I’d completely dropped the ball on Ella’s birthday, but fortunately all of the friends Ella wanted to invite for the sleepover could make it to a last-minute date and my amazingly talented friend Dao stepped in to help with the details to send the party over the top. Ella received a karaoke machine (it is what she had asked for as a present—thank you Amazon Prime!) so we decided that would be a fun theme for the party. We took the girls to a nail salon for manis and pedis (some rock star treatment) and then let them play, sing, and dance the night away in the playroom where we had set up a stage area with Ella’s karaoke machine. Dao created incredible microphone cake pop cupcakes that were the hit of the party and even came over late the night before the party to help create the stage backdrop and colorful dipped pretzels and marshmallows to decorate the dessert table. I’m so thankful to Dao for the help in pulling it all off—she even coordinated with her sister-in-law for the girls to go to her salon. Ella felt incredibly special and loved every minute of her party. I’m so glad we were able to make it happen in our incredible time crunch because sweet Ella deserves as much.
I set up a semi-successful photobooth in the stage area for Ella’s party. We got some cute images, but I know for the future that I need to figure out how to change my settings for autofocus—I’m just so used to manually selecting my focal point that I don’t even think about it when I hand my camera to someone else, or put it on a tripod. Regardless, looks like they had a fun time! Happy birthday, Ella!
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