A Mermaid Party for A 3 Year old

The end of December was the third birthday of our sweet and sassy Eloise! She requested a mermaid party! At first I wasn’t too thrilled with this theme, but in the week or so we put it together, it was so much fun and ended up being my most favorite party to date!

Here’s some of our simple decorations:

Before the party began, I ended up taking out the red bowls for glass ones

Last year and this year (and maybe the first year, I can’t remember), we served fresh lemonade made from the lemons on our tree. The oranges in the water were from my dad’s tree too!

This is our very first fondant and also tiered cake. Micah and I enjoyed this project together! We always say we make a good team  Ellie apparently thought it was too good to resist, and she snuck in and ate a few decorations off of the cake. Luckily, I had saved the fondant just in case, and I did some repair work on it and it seemed good as new. She requested chocolate cake, of course, and the top tier was vanilla colored purple with butter cream frosting.

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Captain America Birthday Party

Last year at his baseball party, Jackson decided that his next party would be a Captain America theme. Sometimes it’s kind of obnoxious that they have to pick their themes so far in advance, but other times, its convenient to find things on clearance during the year! The fourth of July definitely helped with that this year! It was a great party with family and we loved every minute of the celebration! And our sweet Middle Child ate up every second of the attention he received.

Here are some pictures of the festivities.

Obligatory picture of Mom and Jack at the cake

And the rest of my crazies getting in on the picture

The cake and backdrop. I decided to go with a backdrop this time because it was so easy to put up and take down. Much easier than hanging all over the ceiling everywhere like I have done before.

 

Front door

Entryway

Birthday boy with his cake

Paper decorations

Birthday boy’s shirt

 

We had an “all american hot dog bar” with all the fixings to make custom dogs. The chili cheese dogs were a hit.

And a few food ideas I saw on pinterest that we did, plus some fun sugar cookies I experimented with and made up:

         

Jackson was so excited to get the party started

The favors for all his cousins had red and blue candy, a captain america mini frisbee, washcloth, a blue glow stick, and a cup with each child’s name on it and the CA logo

Each child also got a foam CA mask and a shield to decorate themselves

Favors for the adults were decorated sugar cookies

  

Happy 6th Birthday Jackson!







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