Polar Express 4th Birthday Party!

Alll Abboaaarrd!!!!

One of my all time favorite Christmas movies is The Polar Express and last year Linnea shared my love for it. We tried watching it the night after Thanksgiving this year and she loved it again soooo...as I was trying to decide what to do for her 4th birthday I thought maybe this would work. I did some researching for ideas on my fav website Pinterest and realized there plenty of great ideas so we went with it. It was.a.BLAST!

A little crazy since we had 12, yes 12, 3-4 year olds with a parent or two over in our living room with popcorn, hot cocoa and cookies but it was worth it! They were all so cute in their jammies with their fav blankets and pillows. They actually did watch most of it too!

 

hot cocoa and rudolph cookies!

snowflakes now hang from all our fans and will all winter :)

meatballs, lil smokies, veggie/meat/cheese tray that looked like Christmas tree at one point.

fruit, veggies, cheese and crackers...yum!

We gave the guests their Polar Express ticket upon arrival and some colored a train tree ornament to take home. (If we do it again, I'd like to mail the ticket to our guests, but we just didn't have time this year.)

The kids' goodie bags had hot cocoa, a candy cane and a jingle bell.

Linnea got a lot of wonderful gifts that she is excited to play with. Linnea decided to open them after her guests left, I think she was tired and overwhelmed by the end of the movie and catching a cold. 

Thank you so much to everyone who could come, we look forward to more movie/play/craft nights during this chilly winter! 

This was her friend bday party and we have her family one on Monday so stay tuned for the post about that :) This was her first year of having a separate party for her friends than her family since we just cant fit everyone in our house...there would literally be around 40 people I think if everyone came, so we thought it was time to split them up. At some point I am going to do half bday parties for her like my parents did. It gets pretty hard having so much going on in December and this way she will have a party for her in the summer along with the majority of her cousins.

a preview of Linnea's Tinkerbell party!