~*Shannon's Parties*~: Abie's 6th Bithday Party at the Splash Pad 2010

For Abie's 6th birthday party he really wanted to have it at the Splash Pad. We were able to rent it for 2 hours for only $50. This party was pretty easy. I ordered inflatable sandals from oriental trading company, along with the stuff for the goodie bags. I took buckets and filled them with brown sugar to look like sand. I used Nutter Butter cookies and made them look like sandals and put them inside the buckets along with chocolate shells I made. I think they were so cute.

My mil usually makes all the cakes but recently moved to Las Vegas. I didn't want to ask her to travel out here and have to make a cake. I found a cute idea online to use teddy grahams on cupcakes. It looks like they are swimming in a pool. I used fruit rolls for a lounge float and gummy lifesavers for the inner tubes. I used gobstoppers as the beach ball. I made vanilla cupcakes from scratch but cheated and used store bought frosting.

For food I ordered stuff from Ralph's. That was crazy because the day I ordered they didn't tell me that day I was picking the stuff up that all the street's to get to the store would be closed because of a parade! The day of the party we asked 2 police officers at 2 different streets to let us by but they refused. Luckily at another street there was a police cadet. He was so nice, he let us through with a escort to the store. That guy saved the day!
I got PB&J's for the kids, and since the party started at 10am I did kind of a brunch. Ham and cheese crossiants, fruit and nut breads with whip cream, fresh fruit, milk, and juice. It was really yummy!