Bottled Beauty: Violet's 5th Birthday Party

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Violet's 5th Birthday Party

Our Violet turned 5 on July 7! She asked for a Luau Birthday. The picture on the top left is from her first luau party when she turned 1. You can really see how much she's grown! We held the party at our house. It was a great day and we're so glad our friends & family could join us.

As always I have my crafty family to help me throw a good party! Mom made all the food labels, shark watermelon & candy kabobs. Sister Jordan created the invitation below. (I left off all the location details for the blog) I took photos of Violet hula dancing and Jordan created some fun pictures to display at the party. I love how retro & fun they look!

My sister Jaley made coconut Shark cupcakes and strawberry Sun cupcakes. She makes a mean cake! Jaley and her friend Eric now have a cake/sweets company on Facebook called Sweet Ginger.

I kept the food simple. I made ham & cheese sandcastle sandwiches, Caramelized Maui Onion Dip with kettle chips, Pork Egg rolls and goldfish. My mother in law thought I bought the egg rolls. That was my second time making them. I made the filling & rolled them the day before the party. Dad fried them as guest were arriving. They really are the bomb!

I made a photo booth by hot gluing blue streamers to twine and then hung it on my fence. My mom printed out the props and I spray glued to heavy poster board and then used a box cutter to cut them out. I took photos of the guest with my iphone. Shhh, I plan to print them out and mail them with a thank you card.

Love this photo of my second cousin Rosie with Violet. Adorable!