Scrapbooking Greta's birthday

This evening I needed to get to some relaxing activity, so scrapbooking was perfect. Missed it for some time now. Also looking forward to taking lots of pictures of the baby and scrapbooking them, too!

Long time no scrapbooking

It has been a long time since I did any scrapbooking, so I am catching up today with a newspaper scrap for Greta's 4th birthday. A simple one.

The birthday celebration

Last year at this dates we went to the forest and there were no snow, we actually was going to have Greta's birthday party outside. There was no doubt this year, we actually got some new snow in the last couple of days. But is getting wasmer, so the spring will finally come. Eventually.
But this post is not about complaining. It is about the day today, the berthday celebration for our BIG girl now. Because she says she is 9, not four. :-)
She got our presents yesterday already, but was so lucky to get the presents from both pairs of her grandparents today. Since we get up early, and it was still to early to start the preparations, we spent the morning reading books on the sofa and eating popcorn for breakfast :-)
So we started the day with unpacking the presents and getting prepared for the party. The grandparents are always very nice with the presents, and send some cute clothes Greta just loves (the trick is that the clothing has to have either cats or hearts, or both). The doll was also quite a surprise for Greta. The Spanish grandparents sent us a present that will be lovely for the next carnival season - the flamenco costume
It is a lot of work to prepare to receive many 4-5 year old kids at your home, so I was a bit freaking out. I must admit the beginning was just crazy, nothing looked like it was going to stick to our plan, but suddenly I even had a moment to relax and grab a piece of food, too.
I am glad I did not bake the cake, because I just could not. Went for the simple solution and bought the best cheesecake they had. No wonder there is no left.
We started by handing two big pizza doughs to the kids, and the toppings, so they made pizzas. But nobody of them wanted to eat them... Thew wanted sausages. Ok, the parents loved the pizza, though.
Greta loved opening her presents, and I must say she got realy good ones, too. We appreciate the effort.
After the party it took a while until everybody left, but it was also nice to sit and chat with the parents while the kids seemed to have fun.
(I even felt so relaxed I started missing the starbucks coffee - so I made a cup with vanilla whipped cream. Yummy!)
When everybody left, Greta just had to try on the flamenco dress, and had hun dancing.
Great! Take a look how wonderfully we spent time today.
Why not start the day with the popcorn?

Greta it trying on her new dress from the grandparents.

And opening the present from Spain.

Waiting impatiently for the cake.




The flamenco dance outside.



Did you have a good day today?

Greta 4 years old!

Our wonderful child has birthday! It looks like she had fun in the kindergarten today!
She got some presents this morning from mom and day, and tomorrow we are going to fetch something her Russian and Spanish grandparents sent her for a present. Tomorrow is a big day when her friends are coming over. This is going to be fun!
Mom and dad love you, Greta ))

The birthday monsters

You probably remember that Greta's birthday party theme was monsters. I have not shown before the present each of the guests got from us on the party. Enjoy!



I packed them all the same way and kids took one package each to avoid problems :-))

Wanna make one of your own monster. Use this pattern.

Just one month left!

Hurray! Greta will become a 3 year old in just one month! We are getting ready, so many things to do before that. But just in case somebody out there wants to give Greta a present, but does not know what, here are some ideas:

Greta would be happy to get for her birthday:

• tourist equipment, like a sleeping bag
• some cute wall stickers
• a dollhouse, like Lundby
• a THERMObottle of this kind
• a parrot-shaped pillow
• sport equipment, like ice skates
• a big world map to learm why we can't get from one place to another instantly
• something fun for the bath-time, like bath sprudels
• BOOKS!
• a cute lunch box, like this very hungry catepillar lunch box

Happy birthday to me

26 now. Guees just by looking at this pictures what I have got from my dear husband. A hint: the pictures are taken at home without flash. I guess this was not very complicated, right?

Dresses, cake and good friends!

Scrapbooking evening, and here is the result - Greta´s second birthday with her friends.

Yet another birthday

A few weeks ago we had a birthday for our children that became 2 year old. 6 kids of the same age, born between 1st and 15th of April, 2009. I don't post pictures of other kids, just in case. They had a great time. We rent a kindergarten and ate and played there. Greta uses a dress she got from her Spanish grandparents a year ago, it is fit now :-)