Can't believe she's four...

It just seems like a short time ago our first granddaughter was born.  And now, she's four!  As we were discussing what time we were going to leave to drive home, she commented that we needed to stay until after lunch.  "No," she added, "you need to stay 'til after dinner!"  It's times like that we wish we lived closer than 5 1/2 hours away! 

We had a blast helping set up for her birthday party, though.  Our daughters are so creative and this party planned by Hannah's mama was no exception!  It started with this cute s'more handmade birthday party invitation that hinted at the "camping" party theme:  (the "graham cracker" cover is sideways...)

Under the "Hershey chocolate", the details of the party were printed on the white cardstock you can see peeking out underneath, followed by another "graham cracker" on the back.

Pictures of the party:

The picture frame and chair were used to take pictures of Hannah and each of her little friends that came to her party.  Of course, grandparents were included in the pictures!

Brown paper lunch bags were cut short with pinking sheers for the kids' snacks and cupcakes, which I thought was clever, and placed in this antique suitcase within easy reach.  It's hard for kids to walk around with a plate of goodies and not drop half of what is on the plate!

Instead of serving a sugary punch, she decided to serve fruit water made with strawberries, limes and blueberries.  It was delicious and refreshing.  

 A "campsite", complete with a stone enclosed "fire", was set up for the kids to play and somehow they all ended up on the bear or in the tipi! The kids loved it and my daughter didn't have to come up with games for them to play. 

To decorate the table, she put pine cones in her apothecary jar, added a plant and a lantern.  Underneath it all, she had cut 1/4 a brown plastic tablecloth lengthwise and used a sharpie to draw a wood grain on the brown tablecloth which was layered over the green plastic tablecloth.  She didn't have a table skirt, so we used another green tablecloth and taped it to the table to the right length under the top green tablecloth.  It worked!

 I have never seen watermelon wedges on popsicle sticks, but it was brilliant and made the watermelon easy to eat without getting your hands all sticky.  It also prevented the watermelon pieces from falling apart.

 Along with watermelon wedges, other "vegetation" included carrot sticks, celery sticks and cucumber sticks. 

The sweet snacks were saltwater taffy, popcorn, marshmallows (to go with the s'more cupcake theme), moose munch (Chex cereal with chocolate and powdered sugar), deer droppings (range top cookies rolled into "droppings") and miniature "dirt" cups (chocolate pudding, crushed chocolate cookies and gummy worms).