Olivia's Fabulous First Birthday Brunch

I was a little MIA last week due to Olivia's birthday taking over my life haha! Well on top of planning a birthday party I had family coming in town and regular day to day life with two little ones so blogging had to temporarily be put on hold! 

Olivia's birthday party was such a success I am so pleased with how everything turned out. Between having my parents in town and Olivia's birthday we are so exhausted...still trying to recuperate from all of the festivities! 

We had originally planned to have just a small get together here at our home but from one day to the next it sort of spun out of control and before we knew it we had 30+ people coming so my sister-in-law so generously offered for us to host Olivia's Fabulous First Birthday Brunch at her house. She saved us with this because there is no way we would have fit in our apartment. I am so thankful for family! 

I had found this idea of decorating wine glasses with glitter on Pinterest so instead of wine glasses I used Champagne flutes! I went up to Ikea and bought some champagne flutes because you don't want to ruin some nice ones, which were very cost effective and glittered away! I think I paid like $4.79 for a box of six flutes. Perfect! 

While I was glittering away I thought it would be cute to put a strip of glitter on the bottom of some clear plastic cups for guests to drink out of as well. the modge podge and glitter I bought went a long way! I also used the small cups for the Strawberry glitter Parfaits and the fruit loops!

I rented hot pink tablecloths and I found this pretty white and gold striped wrapping paper at Target. If you're a target regular, I'm sure you've seen it! Anyways I used it as table runners over the hot pink table cloths and I used it to wrap some cardboard boxes to give some dimension and height to the main table. The straws I found at Michaels and Target!

The centerpieces I whipped up in two seconds...I bought the tissue decorating balls at Party city, opened them up and hot glued them to some glass vases my sister-in-law had and BAM...I got some quick and easy centerpieces!

I made some tassel garland out of tissue paper in gold light pink and hot pink and strung them around Olivia's high chair and on the pool fence right by the table outside!

Menu:

Ham and Egg Cups 

Crossants with Strawberry Jelly

Maple Bacon

Mini Arepas 

(Traditional Venezuelan Dish)

Strawberry Yogurt Parfaits

Red Fruit Loops

Cake Pops

Strawberries and Cream

Pink Frosted and Sprinkle Donuts

Mini-Powdered Donuts

Mimosas (for the adults)

Juice boxes (for the kids)

Ham and Egg Cups

The Link is above on where I found this recipe!I wish I could say it's one of my own because it's so simple and soooo yummy! These were a hit!

The cake pops were made by Sweets by Dee and they were excellent! If you are in the Miami Area and would like her info shoot me an email!

This was Olivia's fabulous cake! 

I tried to incorporate pink breakfast foods as much as I could...Obviously the main dishes I couldn't really make pink haha. 

I made this little "1" sign out of the same wrapping paper and some leftover scrap-booking paper I had from her baptism. 

Here we are! My little family of four!

Happy Birthday my sweet Olivia!!

These two are too much!

Gus and Olivia having some daddy daughter time!

The sweetest!

I hope you're having a wonderful week so far!

xoxo

BOM BOM Party Shop + GIVEAWAY

Happy Hump Day!! Today I am going to spotlight a fabulous shop that I used for Gus' second birthday and talk about a few of the details of his party! I feel like I neglected Gus' second birthday party and didn't post any details on it. I feel so bad. Well I figured I would share a few details about his special day although it's a few months late (seriously, so embarrassing). 

I chose an Elmo theme, due to the fact that he was going through a huge elmo phase at the time. He still really likes Elmo but it isn't as intense as it used to be!

I don't know why my children don't like to smile for pictures

We had his birthday party at a great children's venue we have here in Miami called Cool-De-Sac, which is targeted more towards younger children. The activities they have is targeted more towards the fine motor skills rather than just jumping around inside moonwalks. They have a Lego area, craft/painting area, dress up area, computer station, video games, a large maze and of course a baby area for little ones under two. They also have an  interactive floor that lights up and the kids LOVED it!!

(Yes, that is my husband in the background with a beer in his hand at a children's birthday party. This place has a cute gourmet cafe and they sell beer and wine for the adults ;)

The birthday boy had a blast! He enjoyed every minute of his birthday party! 

The venue took care of the food, beverages but of course, I chose to bring some Elmo themed decor, cake and party favors. The banner I ordered from BOM BOM Party Shop on Etsy, along with the favor tags. They were PDF files and I just went to Kinko's and printed them off. I cut the banner out and put it together with matching grosgrain ribbon.

As party favors I gave out Elmo goody bags which I made and attached the favor tag to the back. And I gave out Sesame Street coloring books with Sesame Street crayons! Little Gus loves to color, so I thought it was appropriate :)

This is a blurry picture but this is what the goody bags looked like from the back

Seriously how cute are these favor tags? They were my favorite! I received the digital file for the printable almost instantly and the personalized name portion of the banner were sent over a couple days later! But still so quick! I was so pleased with the Ana's work...from the design to the customer service! 

That being said, Ana has agreed to giveaway a $25 Gift Certificate with a $30 dollar purchase to her shop, to one of my readers!! She has the cutest party printables for children...I love the baby princess collection! You can take a look at her adorable shop here. 

Good Luck!!

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Valentine's Day Mini-Party

I typically don't post on the weekends but I just couldn't wait to share these photos I took of the kiddos today! And since it is February 1st, I figured what better way to get in the Valentine's Day than to have a mini-party for the little ones. It lasted no more than 15 minutes-until the pink strawberry icing got out of hand haha. 

-the heart garland //I found at the dollar tree (fab find)

-the banner// I made from cardstock and glitter foam sheets I had 

-the straws //I had left over from Gus' first birthday

 (I had ordered them from Amazon.com)

-the mini's //up top are mini yogurt shots and I cut two paper straws in two and added them for decor

-the brownies //are mini-brownies from publix bakery. I added the pink frosting for color.

-V-Day print in Frame//  Amanda from Happily Ever After has 3 free Valentine's day printable which are so adorable!

We don't know what we're in for yet on her first birthday! She may eat her entire cake by herself! haha This girl didn't waste any time! 

Yep, she went to straight to the bathtub after this haha!

Thanks for stopping by!

xoxo

Elda