A Little Girl's Dream

Ally is seriously obsessed with Hannah Montana. Last summer she told me when she turned 6 she wanted a Hannah Montana birthday party. Month after month she kept asking me, "How many more days 'til my Hannah Montana party?" I kept having to say things like, "Oh, only about a hundred!" Last Friday, we finally had THE PARTY she had been dreaming of. I hope it was all she had hoped for and more.

The cake was somewhat of a nightmare. I'm not one to back down from a kid's birthday cake but since we decided to have her birthday party right after Kindergarten was over on Friday, and I had preschool to do that morning, I had to have the cake done the night before. I went to Walmart hoping they would have some sort of HM cake topper I could slap on the cake and call it good, but nope, they were all sold out. This was at 10:30 on Thursday night. So I put my thinking cap on and went straight to the cards looking for a HM birthday card I could cut out, laminate, and slap on the cake and call it good, but nope, they were all sold out. I put a little bigger thinking cap on and went straight to the gift bags looking for a HM gift bag I could cut out, laminate, and slap on the cake and call it good, and YES! I scored! This is how the cake turned out. The image was one of those that changes when you change angles and looks like 2 different cakes but it's the same one! Ally loved it!

Okay, so here it is like 1am on Friday morning, I got the cake done and still had to get the goodie bags assembled, and the craft project started! I wanted the girls to be able to sing to the HM CD with the HM microphone that Ally got for Christmas. Ally really wanted to be able to put the pink and purple streaks in all the girls hair for their "performance" but I wasn't too sure what the moms would think of that idea. So instead I came up with this idea. Remember these braided barrettes that were so popular in the 80s?

I had every color combination imaginable and thought I could whip out 18 of these in pink and purple for the girls to put beads on for their project, each one taking home 2 barrettes. Was I ever wrong!!! I don't know how my mom was able to make a gazillion of these when I was little! It took me till 5am to make 9 of these things!!! I don't know what the heck was taking me so long to do these but it was horrible. I had to do it though because it was the only "thing" I had for the girls to do other than play karaoke and open presents and eat cake and ice cream! So I got 9 done, 1 for each girl to take home, and all I know is they better cherish those puppies because I literally lost sleep over those things! But, Ally loved it.

I know Ally would still have turned 6 regardless of the effort I put in giving her this fun little birthday party but it's so fun to see her happy. I know she loved this Hannah Montana party and I hope she'll always remember it!

I had to put this last picture in here. It was so cute, Maddie wanted her baby to have a turn with the microphone while the girls were singing and performing to the Hannah Montana songs. Of course Baby Susie stole the show!

And how lucky is Ally that the Hannah Montana movie in 3D is in theaters on her birthday?!!? So, yes, on Saturday night, I took this huge fan to her first "concert" and she loved every minute of it! It was so fun to sit there and watch her starstruck eyes going gaga over her favorite star. She was singing to some of the songs and it was a fun treat to do with her. Just us girls. It was so cute, we snuck in a couple cans of pop and a poppy seed muffin for her to snack on. She loved it! It's so much fun to have a little 6 year old girl!