Lailie's Groovy Gabba Birthday

I meant to post this a long time ago , I finally had the time to finish..

Happy Birthday Lailie Mia. Our well deserved most awesome daughter with the most beautiful character this year we decided to go all out on Lailie's birthday, since her first birthday (which was supposed to be big and special) Didn't turn out to be as big as I wanted it to be, because of things I chose not to remember but was still special. Our Lailie bug couldn't be more special to us. She is everything Nick and I dreamed about eight years ago when we talked about having children. We never knew that eight years later she'd be the apple of our eyes and that we'd have two. .(Iliana) But for her birthday, it's the least we could do to celebrate the gift of her life that God had blessed us to enjoy, To enjoy her presence and have the honor to watch her grow. This party was a meer forecast of what is to come, they joys we'll get to experience as each year passes, that she is blessed with. Happy Birthday little one, may all your wishes come true.!!

A PICTURE WITH FOOFA AND MUNO

Before the Party all our guests got to take a picture outside and be Foofa and Muno, a special Thank you goes out to my brother Jon, for handpainting and spraying the lifesize gabba friends. He put a lot of work into these and they were a sure entertainer! The photo session all made us laugh and it was fun doing it. my brother, the artist couldn't have done these better . Even my aunts, uncles, grandma, and parents joined in..Thanks everyone for joining in on the fun!

BABY STEPS (musical dots)

***A game we anticipated playing was Baby steps ...Which were dots on the ground and it was the concept of musical chairs... To the song baby steps each child walked around to the song "baby steps" when the music stopped, they sat on a dot. last one on the dot wins!***

*** Another anticipated game was "The Brobee toss" Where you toss plastic foods like, apples, banana, carrots into a hole in brobee's belly to win a prize..There sure was a " party in hs tummy" so yummy! so yummy...nummy nummy***

POP-A FOOFA

***Our second game was "Pop-A-Foofa" . Thank you Tiff and Chas for filling and blowing up the balloons! We passed out gabba colored balloons just like in the one episode where they all give Brobee balloons to make him happy. Well, we passed out a balloon to every child at the party and inside were filled with confetti and white paper Foofas, the first one to pop their balloon and find a PINK Foofa, won a prize which was a plate and Cup set. My youngest sister Tiffany won the prize!***

PIN THE EYE (pupil) ON MUNO

***One of the games were, Pin the Eye on Muno. More like, pin the "pupil" on muno haha.. Some people had no clue where Muno's eye went, nonetheless we had a winner! First place was Rachel who won a gumball machine like the one on yo gabba gabba.. and Brandon picked a paint set who won second place. I made muno freehand, no stencils, glued on the bumps and made the eye pieces and mouth, it turned out looking like muno dead on, that Lailie thought it was actually a real muno! Worth the effort, and Fun too. We were also gonna do pin the glasses on "DJ LANCE" (Tiff's idea) but she thought up that idea in the middle of the game so maybe someone else can use that idea, woulda looked cool, just print up an enlarged DJ Lance face, contact paper it and cut out black glasses out of sticker paper or sticky vinyl and go crazy!!

Hey this is a PG rated party haha.....dirty minds I tell ya !

"Muno rocks!" Says Seth, Lailie gets a spin from daddy before pinning the Eye on Zaiden, oops I mean Muno haha...


GOODY BAGS

The Famous Handmade Party favors that were done by myself and the help of my sister who cut out tedious pieces of paper..But it turned out more than awesome! I hand drew the pieces and Chastity thought up the making of the famous sad and happy Brobee since we had two different greens, good job sis! It totally pulled everything together And thank you for all your hard work. (See the painting Jon made of our Gabba Friends)

GUESS THE PLEX

GUESS THE PLEX. was the name of the game! I made a Plex head out of scraps I found around the house improvising with a ribbon spool, flute bottom, a marble, candle, paper, bottle caps, dart tips, paint , and glue and filling his glass jar body with lemon heads The person who could guess the lemon heads inside Plex won a $10 dollar prize, they wanted the Plex, but sorry Lailie's keeping it! Brandon won at #216 pieces when the actual was #217 what an awesome guess, hey.. did he peek? ***

BOOMBOX PINATA

I thought that making a plex pinata would be fun, but I didn't want to exclude any characters, so I made DJ Lance Rock's Boombox, everyone loved carrying it around pretending to be DJ Lance... Jon and I made this Pinata, and Chastity and I put the strings on and filled it. Jon Spraypainted the box silver for me and made me a handle and I put crepe paper on the speakers and cut out pieces of the buttons. We anticipated busting this thing open, but it was too cold outside so we put stings on it, which was better cause I got to save the pinata..From small (Baby Micah) to Big (Uncle Wil) everyone had a blast pulling the strings to see who'd get it open, but Chas and I taped it so much that it didn't open when it was supposed to, but it's okay because everyone had a chance to pull. The boys ripped it open in the end and candy and Quarters were everywhere! Thanks Uncle Wil for helping Lailie girl, and Thanks Daddy for Being DJ Lance and holding the boombox hehe.

CAKE AND PRESENTS YAY!!!

Thanks to Auntie Chas for Buying the Birthday Cake and Decorations..The Guava cake was yummy and the Idea you had for the colors were awesome. I made party hats, amazingly they had a pack of plain hats with all the right colors. And on the hats I taped Yo gabba gabba tags that came with my kid's shirts!

Thank You's

Thanks to all who sang happy Birthday, my dad who put on the "hip hip horray b-day song" just for Lailie on the stereo, and to all Hawaii people for your generous monetary gifts, Thanks to my mom , Auntie Almer, mama Merced for cooking all the food, without you three the party would'nt be possible. A special Thank you to my mama Josie, Mama Sabel, Mama Orang and (whoever else I didn't mention) in hawaii for pre-cooking all the food and sending it express mail just for my party, I am overwhelmed at all the work everyone put in. Thank you Uncle Louie and Uncle Drew for Driving all the way from L.A and San Diego to make it to her birthday. Thank you Auntie Nhel for driving from Sacremento to make it also. Thank you Uncle Walden for the BBQ and coming early in the morning to make your famous ribs! Thanks to all my mom's friends, Auntie Lucy, Auntie Nhila, Auntie Jocelyn & Family for coming. A special Thanks to both my sisters and my brother for being by my side through madness and stress and helping me make this party AWESOME. You guys made this party too! Chas for paying for a lot of stuff, getting awesome presents and tediously working on the BBQ sticks, and Jon for staying up hour making the banner, and handpainting everything, making tose awesome lifesize cutouts, BBQing, and running errands, Thanks Tiff for making the party fun and entertaining our kids with the games and helping out with the goody bags!! Without all your guy's help I wouldn't have made it out alive haha. You guys are all awesome. Thank you Nick for helping!!.. sticking BBQ and running errands, like a chicken without his head! haha. A special thank you to my mom and dad, because they let me have this crazy party, invited all these people and for letting me keep the money owed to them for this party, it was such a big help. A Thousand dollars and gifts is nothing compared to the love you all put into this THANKS EVERYONE WE LOVE YOU ALL!! AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE GENEROUS MONETARY GIFTS and Gorgeous presents you know who you are!!