Joelle's Second Birthday

Under The Sea

We went to the Roswell Splash Park this summer and Joelle had the best time.  When I found out you could have parties there I knew that was the perfect place for her second birthday!

The morning of her party it was raining pretty hard.  I had to cancel by 9:30 a.m. in order to get a refund.  I decided to risk it and it paid off.  We had perfect weather all through the party and as soon as we pulled away the skies opened up!

The color scheme was turquoise and pink and I kept it fairly simple because we were only given 45 minutes to set up.  I made these whimsical jelly fish by painting paper plates and attaching a dowel rod through the center.  I glued different turquoise ribbon to the bottom of the plate and placed sand in buckets to hold them up.

I found this cute whale at TJ Maxx and thought it worked perfectly!

I dipped these marshmallows in melted chocolate then immediately in crushed graham crackers. I used melted chocolate to "glue" on the goldfish and added a candy pearl.

I used the same concept on homemade cupcakes.

Blue Kool-aid Ocean Water

Fish Food (nerds) served as a party favor.  I forgot to take a picture of the movies but each child went home with a copy of Shark Tale.

The birthday girl!  

The party guests!

Camo Cupcakes

For Deer Hunting
Weekend

Drew and Andy are going deer hunting

this weekend with some friends so

I made some camo cupcakes with

a chocolate deer head for them to 

take.  I was told I was "girling up"

their trip but I don't care.  Those were

not Andy's exact words but I can't

write those...

I used a boxed cake mix then separated the batter into

three bowls.  One I left as is and the other two I

added green and brown food coloring to.

Drop small spoonfuls of each color into cupcake

liners and continue until they are 2/3 the way full.

Bake as directed.

I googled deer head image and found this one.
I copied and pasted then printed on a piece of paper.

 I placed a piece of parchment paper on top of the

print out.  I melted a container of melting chooclate

then poured it into a squeeze bottle (sort of shown 

at the top right corner).  It was actually pretty easy!

 Once they cooled they peeled right up!

Princess Party: Cupcakes

Joelle's 4th Birthday

 A Princess Party

We had cupcakes fit for a princess from Gigi's for Joelle's birthday.  I found small, plastic, art pallets at Hobby Lobby and filled each section with a different type of sprinkle.  We put a sparkly wand through the center (also found at Hobby Lobby).  The girls had a great time decorating their individual cupakes...

and the clean up was a piece of cake!