Sunday, June 5, 2011

Carnival Birthday Party

Well, I haven’t blogged in a few days and I know that is not like me but I have a good reason.  We had the boys birthday party this weekend.  I had a party together since they both have June birthdays.  We did a Carnival theme. 
For the food I wanted to do cupcakes.  I used this colorburst cupcakes recipe which make incredibly moist cupcakes (sorry about the fuzzy picture).
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And then I wanted to do these snow cone cupcakes but I didn’t quite pull it off, but I did do these Popcorn Cupcakes and they turned out pretty cute.
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I also made “lollipop” cookies and they were pretty fun to make and looked pretty cute on the candy table.  I put the candy on the table and then we had popcorn bags that everyone could use to make their own treat bags with the candy.
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I bought some games from Oriental Trading company and then used my own ideas too.  I set them up as Carnival “booths”.
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This was a “kissing booth” with a twist.  It was an idea I got from here.

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Here is the “ring toss” game.

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Our duck matching game.  We used our water table as the duckie pool.

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Then we had the bean bag toss

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Then I had to do potato sack races.  I went to the Goodwill and bought several pillow cases to use as “potato sacks”.
The food I went with was pretty simple so guests could serves themselves.  We had pulled pork and sloppy joes in the slow cooker.  My stepmom made her awesome potato salad.  I made baked beans and fruit salad and then we had chips and carrots.
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I used this Red and White Striped paper to make my own signs and to make the cupcake wrap arounds.
If you are interested in doing a party you can get several more ideas from here and here.

We had a lot of fun. 



We also always have to have a pinata.  It is not a party at our house unless someone is trying to knock the candy out of an object on a string with a metal bat.  Usually we have to beat the thing to get the candy.  This year the head immediately came off.  So we were beating a headless horse.  It was kinda weird but fun.
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And since it was about 97 degrees, we had to try out the slip n slide my sister got for Iman’s birthday.
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Happy Birthday to my boys.
We love you so much!
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6 comments:

  1. No wonder you weren't blogging! That was ANOTHER awesome birthday party. You have such a gift of making birthday memories with your children.

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  2. Awesome party! Very impressed!

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  3. I better not let Scott and Natalie see this. You put our party to shame! :):) I love those popcorn cupcakes...so creative!

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  4. Looks like a great time! Would you by any chance be able to share the potato salad recipe, or is that a family secret? :)

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  5. And, if it's not too much trouble, the pulled pork recipe...I found the sloppy joes recipe, but not that one in your recipe box...thank you! :)

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  6. Thanks ladies - I enjoy doing it. I know that the kids will only enjoy these kind of parties for a few years. It is just fun!

    Amy,
    I linked a few of the recipes here for you and I will try to post my stepmom's potato salad sometime. Although my sloppy joes didn't turn out great this time.

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