Shark Bite Bash ... Is that like the Monster Mash?

Ok I had to go with it, it rhymed and made me laugh!  Yesterday I showed all the treats for the party now to show the party itself.  Our day started with rain and grey skies, I kept prayer for good weather!  I worked the am and then hit the ground running.  I thought I was good packed the car and forgot to make my salad, knowing I couldn't make it at my mom's I ran back in the house and made it.  I of course made a double batch that ended mostly in the garbage (note to self DON'T over do it next year).  I then got on the hwy to remember I forgot all the ingredients for the punch (CRAP).  I pull over and can't find my phone for the life of me.  Then I remember I forgot all the meat too! REALLY!  I drive up to my parents house set up the table and have an hour before the party, of course find my phone (only if I would have found it a 1/2 hour before I could have caught Rick at the house).  So I have to drive the hour (1/2 hour both ways) to my house to get everything I forgot!

Thank God I made it to the party with 5 minutes to spare.  Thankfully the grey skies part and the sun starts to come out.  People showed up and we had a blast laughing and enjoying the day.  It was perfect with great friends.  My homemade bubbles did end up somehow being used to clean the buoys but after a little annoyance I had to just let that one go.  Every party has moments where you want to scream but you have to just put it aside and yell it out later.  All the hard work you put into may not always be appreciated but you know what you did and that is all that matters!  And a party full of kids of all ages may just drive everyone a little cranky too ... hehe.

Here are some great pictures of the day!

Here is the Tables all done up.

ALL Links on how to do in this POST:

Play time for all!

Lot's of fun times! Bubbles & Food!

And Some Dock Time:

The Slide got LOT'S of use!

Poor Caden tried and DIDN'T go down :(

Lot's of Swimming!

Rick took the kids for rides on the Jetski!

He took them all for the same amount, but that of course went over like a lead balloon with some .. lol.  

Poor Rick's patience I think were tested.

Lot's of Sweets!

And lot's of love time!!

And Some S'More time also!!!

It REALLY turned out great and we had so much fun!  The ups and downs and little moment's of wanting to pull my hair out is over and well worth it!

Google Drive with some templates for this party.

Shark Invasion Week Has Begun ....

As most of you that know me by now, know that I'm all about making a party a theme!  We did the Lego Party and Now my youngest Caden has opted for a Shark Theme.  Who knew Shark would be a harder one to do?  I did find lot's of ideas but wasn't able to find all the silicone molds that I wanted to do the crayons, chocolates and gummies like I did last time.  I have been making do and came up with a cool way to do the shark fins, I'll show those off soon!  

I started on the easier items last night and wanted to share my results so far.  Thanks again to Pinterest and Google for some great ideas.  First off is to make these cute napkin rings.  Easy items you can even find at the dollar store (oh yes you know I'm budgeting it all!).

The Princess and The Frog did a Sailboat theme party where she made these beach theme napkin rings.  I thought it would be perfect with our Shark theme!  I plan to put them in a beach sand bucket that I picked up at Walmart (for 96 cents).  I picked up a few of these to serve our guest treats!

Beach Themed Napkin Rings:

1pkg Blue Napkins (Walmart 96cents) 

1pkg Lifesavers (Walmart $1.76)

1 Roll Twine (Walmart 1.76) - I'll have extra for the hubs

1 pkg Plastic Cultery Set (Dollar Store $1)

Now I don't usually do goodie bags but since I don't have a lot of fun little things I thought why not make some.  I saw a picture on Pinterest that lead to a flickr photo of a Shark Bait Party Favors.  I took her idea an ran with it, there were no directions so I thought I can do this ... hehe!

Shark Bait Goodie Boxes, What you Need:

Boxes (Walmart 50 cents)

Goldfish Individual Bags ($5 for 12)

Whale Chalk (Walmart $1 for 4)

Fish Chalk (Walmart $1 for 4)

Saltwater Taffy (Walmart $1 - separated into the boxes)

Sweedish Fish (Walmart $1 - separated into the boxes)

Sea Water Squirt Toys (Dollar Store $1 for 3)

Sm Sea Water Squirt Toys (Dollar Store $1 for 8)

8x10 Avery Shipping Labels

Inkjet Printer

I have shared the template for the stickers HERE if you would like to use it.

Print the sticker on the Label I used my paper cutter and then took the back off the label and applied to the boxes I bought.  I then loaded the boxes up and we are ready to go!

More to come, I will be baking cupcake, cake and cake pops tonight and will decorate them with my helper (My dinner friend).

Google Drive with some templates for this party.

Shark Party is on! First comes the Invite!

As those of you who know me and have followed for sometime know I go a little nutty with my themes!  Hey what can I say I love to have a theme to run with (ok I don't litteraly run I'm still in the walk stage in life but for other things I take it and go with it).  I just love having a fun party that my kids and hopefully the kids that attend will remember.  So early we did the Lego party for Cole, this upcoming week is Caden's 5th birthday.  The theme he picked out is Sharks!  You would think sharks would be easy, but trying to find silicone molds has been on the impossible side.  So I'm probably not able to do the crayons I was wanting to do but I can make some candies, the cake, fun things to snack on and of course I can make invites!

I of course went to my resource Pinterest to see what I could locate. I found a site that had super cute shark invites, her friend designed them so there were no instructions on how to make them.  So I printed a photo and made my own mark up of how to do it.  I took my template I made and using my awesome 3 in 1 printer photo copied it right on to my paper.  That way I could print them and then cut them and then glue everything together until my fingers stuck together!

I took my template and put into a google documents so if any of you want to make it you can go HERE for Head and Bottom and HERE for mouth and print out like I did!

What you Need:

Grey Card Stock (for shark head & body)

Red Card Stock (for mouth)

White Card Stock (Teeth & for the invite that has the info on it)

Blue Card Stock (for the invite that has date, time etc on it)

Scissors / Also the E-Acto zig zag scissors for the teeth marks

Glue Sticks

Google Eyes

Black Sharpie (Inside of mouth and eye brows)

For the shark print the template cut out the bottom half gets teeth and the red attached.  I also wrote inside "Caden's 5th Birthday - Come or be Shark Bait".  Fold the red in half glue on teeth and the top of the shark head.  I'm including a picture below click on it to enlarge and you can see the step by step.  I also made up and insert using word, clip art shark with the info for the party.  If you would like this msg me and I'll email it to you.  When I tried to save in google docs it kept moving everything around.

There you have it we begin the shark domination at my house!

Google Drive with some templates for this party.

Got my Pre Planning Hat on …

Planning a head of time and buying all the molds etc before hand for Cole’s party worked so well and made me less stressful.  So the theme for Caden has been picked and my Pinterest board is full and ready to go.  I went on to my favorite sites Amazon and Ebay to look for molds and fun things I will need for this theme … drum roll please … Shark!

Oh yes we will be having a lake party at my parents waterfront in July and it will be all about the sharks!  I’m thinking crayons and chocolates will be on the must do list.  I've found a few fun molds I can’t wait to experiment with.

Check out what I have bought so far!  I can’t wait to share the invites and all the other fun things we will be doing.

First off I bought a cool Shark Holder for the Shark Fin Cupcakes I will be making.

Silicone Shark Cookie Mold

This Shark Fin Ice Mold I’m going to try with Crayons.

This is for the punch bowl.  Shark Fin ice ring.

Shark Sucker Chocolate Mold

There we go , it was a packed weekend with work and fun road trip.  I didn’t get a lot of down time so just a quick post for today!

Google Drive with some templates for this party.