purple party!

Though she isn't 3 until Christmas Eve,

(insert mini heart attack just now. when did my girl get so big?)...

We celebrated Abigail's birthday last weekend with a few close friends and family.
We tried to keep it a little smaller this year to not be so overwhelming to her,
and it was just a few close girl friends/family friends, which ended up being perfect for her.

At her request (for like the last 6 months)...

We had a Purple Party!!

btw, I think I may just ask her every year what her favorite color is.

A color theme was SO easy and fun. :)

so I present.

Purple Party!!!

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I had a little photo shoot with her (just with my own camera) in her purple outfit and a balloon,

then added words to it and just printed the invites at Walgreens for cheap.

I thought they turned out so fun and cute, and different than just a paper invite. 

Abigail and her little besties.

SO cute.

and they all wore purple!

opening a fun gift from her Memaw.

We were blessed that the grandparents got to come in town for the party!

opening another gift with her bff Anna.

as they wear Princess clothes, of course.

Bethany had a blast, but pretty much looked like this the whole time.

Just in awe of all these people in her house! haha

She wore the same purple skirt as Abigail, and a purple headband, but a pink shirt...

so as not to steal her sister's thunder. :)

We told everyone to wear purple if they could, and I was SO impressed...

even all our friends (guys included) busted out their purple!!

Even the christmas tree wore purple!

Abigail helped decorate this with her Daddy.

Being a little bit sassy waiting for her friends before the party.

(i mean, she IS about to be 3. yikes)

best part of the next picture is the baby pic of the day Abigail was born.

I just had to put that out somewhere!

(wasn't she beautiful minutes after birth?)

Surrounding the pic are some cute water bottles with crazy straws that I found at Dollar Tree!

Each kid went home with one as a party favor.

Each kid also got to pick a candy cane off the tree!

purple up to my eyeballs.

(PS the lighting in my kitchen is terrible for pics, so excuse these!)

I tried to keep with the Purple theme even for the food.

a few purple things we had:

crockpot meatballs in grape jelly (yummy AND purple-y) :)

purple fruit snacks,

purple skittles,

cream cheese with crackers and rasberry sauce,

and purple juice boxes for the kiddos.

yep, more purple.

(true story, on Thursday night before the party, i literally DREAMT in purple, no joke.)

For drinks,

(i forgot to take pics)

I made some homemade crockpot hot chocolate, and set out marshmallows.

We also had some cran-grape juice,

and for the adults,

Parker made us some fabulous Sangria Wine.

He even put a sign next to the pitcher that said "Adult Purple Juice". :)

I didn't do anything too fancy for the cake part bc Abigail had requested cupcakes,

so I just made some and decorated them for her.

pretty simple, but SO so yummy.

(I used confetti cake mix, and cream cheese frosting)

used my mason jars to put the (purple) silverware in!

We had a great purpleicious spread! :)

(arent these girlies so sweet all together?)

blowing out her candle!!!

She had practiced all week. funny girl!

Enjoying her cupcakes with her friends.

(dont worry my floors were clean. well, before this.)

It was so fun and I cannot believe that my girl is turning three soon.

How in the world is that possible.

She is the most amazing little girl.

Here's to Abigail.

oh, and here's to the color Purple!!