In celebration of youngest curly girlie's second birthday, we had a flip-flop party at our local YMCA swimming pool.
If your children have summer birthdays, I highly recommend having a swimming party. It doesn't require very much work because the children just swim, which is exactly what my girlies and their friends prefer to be doing in the summertime heat.
The kids had a great time splashing each other, swimming, and playing in the fun fountains.
We even had our newest friend attend the party - sweet baby boy!
In keeping with the water theme, we served SUBMARINE sandwiches from my hubby's favorite new sandwich shop, Jimmy John's. I made some SEASHELL pasta salad and a fun snack mix, consisting of goldfish (representing fish), multi-grain cheerios (representing life preserver rings), and Captain Crunch cereal (representing beach balls and floats). We also had one of my favorite candies, Swedish fish. I served everything in sand buckets with shovels as the serving spoons.
I don't think our birthday girl ever got out of the water...
...except to eat birthday cake, of course!!
I made a very simple flip-flop birthday cake. It was fun to make and I thought it turned out pretty cute! The birthday girl loved it and ate it up!!
For the party favors, my Mom made each of the kids a crayon roll with her monogramming machine and I made each child a pair of flip-flops. The older boys got pirate button flip-flops and the younger boys got frogs. The two teenage girls got ribbon tied flip-flops and the younger girls all got flip-flops with bows.
I'll be posting a tutorial for all of these favors, the birthday cake, and the simple invitations in the next few days.
Thanks to all of our sweet family and friends who came to celebrate little curly girlie's second birthday!
If your children have summer birthdays, I highly recommend having a swimming party. It doesn't require very much work because the children just swim, which is exactly what my girlies and their friends prefer to be doing in the summertime heat.
The kids had a great time splashing each other, swimming, and playing in the fun fountains.
We even had our newest friend attend the party - sweet baby boy!
In keeping with the water theme, we served SUBMARINE sandwiches from my hubby's favorite new sandwich shop, Jimmy John's. I made some SEASHELL pasta salad and a fun snack mix, consisting of goldfish (representing fish), multi-grain cheerios (representing life preserver rings), and Captain Crunch cereal (representing beach balls and floats). We also had one of my favorite candies, Swedish fish. I served everything in sand buckets with shovels as the serving spoons.
I don't think our birthday girl ever got out of the water...
...except to eat birthday cake, of course!!
I made a very simple flip-flop birthday cake. It was fun to make and I thought it turned out pretty cute! The birthday girl loved it and ate it up!!
For the party favors, my Mom made each of the kids a crayon roll with her monogramming machine and I made each child a pair of flip-flops. The older boys got pirate button flip-flops and the younger boys got frogs. The two teenage girls got ribbon tied flip-flops and the younger girls all got flip-flops with bows.
I'll be posting a tutorial for all of these favors, the birthday cake, and the simple invitations in the next few days.
Thanks to all of our sweet family and friends who came to celebrate little curly girlie's second birthday!
too cute! sad we had to miss it.
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