Party Day!

Today we had the girls' birthday party at Bowness Park today. (For those of you who don't know where I'm talking about...Bowness Park is a large city park that has shelters and picnic sites and playgrounds and walking trails and the Bow River running beside it. There is also a cafe and a lagoon that you can canoe on in the summer, and skate on in the winter!) I was a bit nervous about the weather, because the forecast initially said 80% chance of rain, but it changed several times this week and it ended up being sunny, windy and beautiful out! I love having birthdays in the spring/summer when you can just chill out together outside and run around and have fun. Our timing was perfect as far as that goes ;) lol

We made all sorts of yummy food to share with our party friends; guacamole, lemon sesame hummus, fruit salad, 4-bean salad. Spelt Vegan Chocolate Cake with cherry filling! We also had veggies and watermelon...the watermelon was surprisingly yummy for this time of year. You never know about mid-spring produce...sometimes it's so delicious, others it is bland and watery and obviously not ready to be in season yet!

We planted little cactuses in small terra cotta pots as a craft :) The kids decorated their pots with markers and then planted their plants themselves. It was *so* fun and the kids loved it! Jesse was super sweet and made paper crowns for each child...*sigh* It's stuff like that that really makes me swoon for this man...his totally sweet sensitivity. A man that hand makes paper crowns for his daughters and their friends wins my heart any day of the week ;)

I am just overflowing with warm fuzzy feelings for today...it was a really relaxing, nice way to celebrate my kids.