Since Maren means water, we decided to have a water/seahorse/octopus/sand castle/enchantment under the sea themed party. We are so very fortunate that my wonderful, fabulous, in-laws have a lake house, so the party actually was on the water!
The Invite
The plaid ruffle and seahorse were actually taken from her birthday outfit.
Pre-Party
Sea creature themed plates that my MIL found.
There's an octopus in my refrigerator!
(Maren and Greta size cakes.)
Sand Castles - these were made out of spice cake, in little mini-bundt pans. Then I drizzled them with a glaze recipie and sprinkled on yellow sanding sugar. I should have bought larger gumdrops (next time I have an octopus party I'll remember that), but these worked fine. I actually made some with different colors of sanding sugar, but they didn't turn out quite right, and the yellow ended up looking the best. The flags were actually just a label size design I made in photoshop and printed on sticky label sheets. Then I cut them out and wrapped them around toothpicks to make the flags.
Birthday Girl and Birthday Sister in their seahorse/fish birthday outfits.
A shot with actual water in the background! I had hoped we would eat outside on the water, but it was just too darned hot, for great-grandma's and babies.
Testing out the Octopus Smash Cake
Octopus cake with brown sugar sand.
Party Time
Greta was a great helper.
We missed Granny Nadine -but she was a big hit present-wise. Maren loves her baby doll and her counting glove.
Feeding Grandpa Sir
Nona and her three Great-Granddaughters;
Lauren, Maren and Greta
Octoups fountain from Pottery Barn Kids. Please note the scale of Octoups to large adult in the water. That thing is huge!
Thanks to all who came, we had a great time!
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