Sound of Music Themed Birthday

On February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 By LindyIn photography

I posted photos of my daughter’s fifth birthday last week, but just in case any of you have children who love Sound of Music, I wanted to share a post of some of the fun, simple ways I incorporated the theme. While this is hardly a Pinterest-worthy party, I couldn’t exactly find a lot of ideas out there, either. Forewarning: Despite my better judgement, I did pull movie images from the internet.

IMG_3613 copy — Of course we had to have “jam and bread” to make peanut butter and jelly! We also had other sandwich stuff.

IMG_3616 copy — I didn’t think she’d go for schnitzel, so we just had basic pasta salad “noodles.”

IMG_3617 copy — Most of the other food qualified as “a few of her favorite things.”

52602935_10218937009485021_8910831660476399616_o copy — The birthday girl is obsessed with Gretel – the youngest character. She wore a flower girls dress, which looks a lot like Gretel’s dress from So Long, Farewell. We do not get fancy with our cakes. I designed an image for the grocery store to print on a frosting sheet to put on top of a 9×13 cake. Then, we let her shape some fondant mountains and cut out little cardboard characters for her to place on the round cake. The best part wasn’t the overall design, but the fact that she took pride in helping make her cake.

IMG_3691 copy — A simple pennant with some of the movie scenes

IMG_3724 copy — We had to have “crisp apple strudel”, of course! I found an easy recipe, and it was delicious! Half of our family had to come the weekend after her birthday party due to winter weather, so we made this at the second celebration.

IMG_3702 copy — My cousin made this gorgeous Gretel dress for her, which she wore at her second celebration! (Again, the weather hindered us getting it in time for her original party.) She loved it so much she wore it two days in a row before we made her take it off to wash it.

52597964_10218937005164913_6706793261807173632_n copy — We copied the Sound of Music logo and turned it into coloring pages. This served two purposes – she got to help with the decorations for her own party, and she included them in the favor bags for her little friends party.

20190206_195226 copy — To create less work for myself, I carried the Sound of Music theme into her friends party, too. She invited 5 of her friends from school to meet at a frozen yogurt place, so I just brought some of the decorations, and she helped me create these favor bags. The “brown paper packages tied up with strings” included her favorite things: coloring pages, crayons, boxed macaroni, fruit cups, and chocolate!

Wizard of Oz Birthday

On February 21, 2018February 21, 2018 By LindyIn photography, toddler

Little Miss K has loved Wizard of Oz for a couple of years, so it was natural that she wanted a “Dorothy” birthday party. I can’t believe this girl is already four years old! Her birth feels like yesterday. We had a great time celebrating with family and close friends My mom did a great job with the cake. I found the figurines for it on ebay – they were from the 2013 McDonald’s Happy Meals. I had fun designing the decorations and coming up with food ideas – there wasn’t much out there on Pinterest, believe it or not. Here’s what we did:

Yellow brick road: egg casserole

Over the rainbow: fruit rainbow

Bugels: tornados

Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!: animal crackers

Ruby slippers: Hot Tamales

Witch’s broomsticks: pretzels

Tin man hats: Hershey’s kisses

Aunt Em’s fresh squeezed juice: You guessed it – juice!

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Hello Kitty Toddler Birthday

On March 18, 2016 By LindyIn photography, toddler

Since Lil’ Miss K loves kitties and doesn’t watch cartoons, I chose Hello Kitty for her birthday theme. We kept it pretty simple this year with immediate family, simple decorations, and an easy (but cute!) cake. Her favorite gift was a baby stroller to push her babies in, but my favorite was her new Strider bike!

Photo(s) of the Day: Zoo-themed First Birthday Party

On February 19, 2015 By LindyIn photography1 Comment

Here are a few shots of Baby K’s birthday party decor. Unfortunately I forgot to get a photo of all the cute hanging paper spirals, zoo animals, and balloons. It was by no means Pinterest-worthy, but I had fun planning – especially putting together the photo collages! And of course I had to throw in one photo of the cute birthday girl. 🙂