A Hawaiian Birthday For Two

Casie hosted a wonderful birthday Celebration today for her daughter, Amalyah who turned 3 and her sister, Hannah who turned 20.  The Hawaiian theme won over for the choice of decor and what a wonderful job she and her mom did putting it together.  There were some great details that went into this Celebration to make it memorable, special and fitting for both a 3 year old and 20 year old.  Enjoy the ideas!

 Casie's brother made the amazing cake with coconut flavored frosting!

 One of Casie's favorites is making a cake stand out of a tray or plate and candlestick from the Dollar Store.  You can add fun decor around the edge to tie it into the theme.  It makes for a fun addition to a dessert table and doesn't cost much at all!

 A pineapple palm tree sets the Hawaiian feel by using the left over pineapple skins from the pineapple you cut up to eat.  It's an inexpensive way to add some great tropical feel to a Celebration with things that you might already have.

 Nutter Butter flip flop cookies.  So cute!

Raw sugar makes the perfect sand option if real sand isn't at your finger tips.

 Blue Hi-C and Sprite punch with gold fish ice cubes.  Now that's a fun looking punch bowl!

 An Aloha banner.  Love the pineapple shapes and small pom poms!

The ladies who put it all together!

This was truly a CeLeBration filled with lots of love and clever ideas.  From the Nutter Butter flip flops to Gold Fish ice cubes in blue punch, it was all unique and brought out the tropics without being overly colorful.  The perfect palette for both older and younger guest of honor.  Great job Casie and mom for putting all your heart into making this a CeLeBration for your family full of memories that will last forever!  

Hawaiian Celebration

Can you feel the sun on your face, hear the ukulele playing, and taste the juicy pineapple? If we can't go there, we'll bring Hawaii to you. We did just that with this Hawaiian themed Baby Celebration. Our vision was to have a grand fruit display and then everything else was gathered to go with that.
Some extra hands for washing and cutting fruit comes in handy, and if you go here you can find out how to make those wonderful pineapple palm trees on the ends. They were super easy and made the look of the theme so much more tropical.

For our fruit display we used green and purple grapes, blueberries, pineapple, strawberries. cantaloupe, watermelon, and bananas. Around the very base of it all we used leafy lettuce.

It was so pretty we couldn't watch the ladies as they filled their plates and demolished our creation. No, not really! Everyone really enjoyed it!

Along with the fruit we had cheese, turkey ham, smoked turkey and olives on toothpicks. Notice the skittles in large shells. We used shells to help bring in the beach feel.

We had these sitting on each plate at the tables. Waffle cone bowls, dipped in chococlate then sprinkled with coconut. The filling is a dip for the fruit and an umbrella completes the look.

Just so there wasn't all fruit, we did add the meet and cheese tray that I showed earlier and veggies and some crackers and dip. And we kept the colorful theme going. With all the colors it made for such a bright and vibrant party. The guests couldn't wipe smiles off their faces.

Our invitations were handmade using different kinds of paper, stamps, and sand. We wanted the ladies to get a feel for the celebration as soon as they looked at the invites.

Don't ya just love this little guy? For the center pieces we used a turquoise piece of material, put the fish bowls, with gold fish and jewel stones in the bottom, on the material, put some sand around that and placed shells in the sand.

Diaper cakes are so much fun and help blend the theme in with the baby part of it. For this Hawaiian themed cake, we used sandals, sunglasses, squirt toys, and topped it with colorful, fish burp cloths.

Here is the guest of honor, Bethany. One fun thing we did, was had the younger girls pass out leis to the ladies as they came in. We had a nicer one for Bethany and even used some for decoration on the diaper cake.

The ladies are diggin' in to the food. The fruit was so refreshing and light. If you don't want all the sugary desserts, go with a fruit display. It's beautiful and delicious!

A beach ball hung from above every table just to add some fun!

Time to honor our soon-to-be momma. We fixed her a basin of water and as the ladies took turns washing her feet and sharing their advice, poems and stories, her niece decided to have a little soak too. Was so cute and a great addition to the sharing time.

Bethany and Christi (that's me) after the blessing of another successful CeLeBration!