{Somewhat Sparkly}: "Under the Sea" Birthday Splash

This year my girls were turning 2 & 4 in the month of June so I decided to do a combined birthday celebration. Last year at Baleigh's princess party she asked me if her next birthday could be a mermaid party...so as sad as it sounds, I've been planning this for 1 year!! :) Below are the pictures of the party and I do have to say it was a grand success! :) the girls loved it and I was so happy with the way everything went. Thank you Pinterest!! :)

Entry way decorations...the blue streamers are just hanging around the light in the entry way.

Favors for friends :) Instead of goodie bags I bought each guest a pair of flip flops (Old Navy) but I added bows to the girls' flip flops and I created a hair bow for each girl. Below is the left side of table so you can see the boy shoes in the middle and the pairs for Baleigh's friends on the left...her hair bows had an Ariel in the middle of them.

Here is the right side of the table with Rylie's friends flip flops...her friends each got a hair bow with Nemo in the middle of them :)

This is the squid chandelier I made over our dining room table. Plus you can see the seaweed streamers I created on the walls and the cut out fish I got to make the scene complete.

Here is an up close picture of the wall decorations.

I also hung blue streamers in the connecting doorway to look like water. :)

Here is an overall look at the food table. We did Octo-dogs, peanut butter & jelly starfish, a goldfish bar, rice krispy treats, seaweed (grape) skewers...plus more that you can't see!

Here is the drink table. We made mermaid punch on the left...sad thing is that it was so cute when it was full & blue...in this pic we refilled the mermaid punch with water...but on the right we called it sea water, but it was just water with fresh cut strawberries & limes. Both were yummy! The mermaid punch was lemonade and blue kool-aid.

Up close of the sea water.

Up close of mermaid punch...or water! :)

Goldfish bar :)

Octodogs :) We cut them and then boiled them. The kids loved them :)

Rice cake sea scenes....I just mixed blue food coloring with the cream cheese and spread it on then used a mixed bag of carrots & broccoli to put on each and added 2 goldfish to complete the scenes.

Seaweed skewers....they were so good that they all got eaten! :) These were just a mix of grapes on each skewer.

Rice krispy treats with swedish fish. :)

Cake!

Another view of cake!

I got these cupcakes at Publix and asked for 6 choc. & 6 vanilla and I added the dowel and tied fishing wire to it and stuck a Swedish fish on the end :)