Flip Flop Fun!

The last couple of days I've been trying to sort through pictures from Alyssa's birthday party on Saturday to share here on the blog.  It was tough sorting through close to 200 pictures and deciding which were my favorites.  Here's just a tidbit of our birthday party fun!

The weather ended up being really yucky the day of the party.  We had reserved one of the spots at the park across the street from our house to have the party at because of the amount of people invited and the fact that our house is pretty small.  It was super convenient to have the party literally steps away from our house but it was really tough to decorate and put stuff out on the tables when the wind was literally blowing things away. 

A couple of weeks before the party, Veronnica was super sweet and asked me if she could make some things for the party and here's one of the things she made for us...

An awesome personalized banner which we ended up hanging here in our kitchen archway.  I tried hanging it at the park but it was SO windy that it was getting all tangled up.  I was so bummed.  What was actually neat was that we were still able to enjoy it since we all kept coming and going from the party, and even after the party, we had family from out of town over to visit.  The banner was such a special touch and it's actually still hanging here in our kitchen where I'm planning on leaving it up for a while for us to enjoy and continue the birthday fun.  Thanks so much for doing that V! :)

For entertainment, we rented a bounce house.  It had a fun tropical theme to it with palm trees on all four corners!  It even had a flamingo on it, which Alyssa loved!

We wanted to just do a simple BBQ and that's what we did.  We served hot dogs and hamburgers, beans, pasta salad, and these yummy fruit skewers which have been a summer party tradition of ours for the past five years.

And here's how the flip flop cake turned out.  I think it ended up turning out pretty good and everyone else seemed to be excited about it too!

My sister Yvonne make these yummy cupcakes.  I think they turned out really cute!  My favorite part were the fun little sunglasses and flip flop picks that I found to match our theme!

I also made number five cookies as favors.  This has also been a tradition of ours since Alyssa and my niece Natalya had their first birthdays.  These do take some time to make, but I think they're totally worth it and add a special touch to the party!  If you look close, you can also see the super cute tags Veronnica also made for us.  They said "Alyssa's 5th Birthday" on them plus the date of the party!  I think they made the cookies look so awesome!!!

My mother in law also wanted to be sure we had a pinata for the party so she took Alyssa to go buy one on Thursday.  Only thing was, they couldn't find one that matched our flip flop theme, so she let Alyssa pick out one she liked, and wouldn't you guess, she chose a duck one.  At least it matched the colors of the party, right?

Although it was a cold and windy day, the birthday girl and everyone else had a great time!  I can't believe my girl is five years old now.  Alyssa got some awesome gifts and now has a full summer wardrobe to choose from!

It was an awesome birthday!