Our little girl has grown so much in the past year! In fact she's no longer little, she's grown 3 inches since her last birthday! Happy 5th birthday to our darling daughter, Carsyn. You continue to amaze us with your loving personality, awesome hugs, sweet kisses and quirky sense of humor. You're starting to find your love of sports (soccer), dislike of cheer-leading, and fascination with makeup! Love you to the moon and back! 🎂🎈🎉💗😘
When I asked Carsyn what kind of cake/theme she wanted this year, she surprised me with My Little Ponies. I didn't even know she watched them or knew who they were! Sure enough she did as she began to name them. So began my search for all things My Little Pony. The majority of her items I found at Target, the goodie bag items I purchased off Oriental Trading Co and the balloons came from Party City.
We decided to have her party at a kids gym this year. What better way to burn off all that energy and sugar high than diving into a foam pit, climbing on balance beams and jumping in a bounce house. Any prancing pony would love dashing through those obstacles!
The evite:
Gallop on over for a magical treat
We'll jump, tumble and play so sweet.
Celebrate with Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash
at Carsyn's 5th birthday bash!
Capital Gymnastics
60 mins gym fun, 30 mins pizza & cake time.
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| Birthday Girl |
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| rainbow cupcakes and rainbow dash cake |
I found the cake idea on Pinterest. The cupcakes were easy, made with confetti cake mix and then decorated with sugar crystals in rainbow colors. For the Rainbow Dash main cake I used 9" round cake pans and bought 3 different colored cake mixes: pink, yellow and blue. I used pastel blue food coloring mixed with vanilla frosting to get the desired base color for Rainbow Dash. The ears I came up with in my dreams (yes I seriously had a dream about it). I took Oreo filling, molding it with my hands into the shape of an ear (triangle), put it in the freezer to harden and then covered it in blue frosting and placed it onto of the cake. I cut the cookie part of the Oreo to fit inside the ears to give it depth. Instead of mixing 7 different colors of frosting for the hair, I used the AirHead rainbow sour strips and curled it around the top and backside. Genius! The eyes were also made out of Oreos, then I cut some of the sour strips and used the blue to line the iris of the eyes and make the eyebrows (good idea Juju!). I think it turned out quite well! The birthday girl was quite pleased.
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| rainbow cake! |
Goodie bags:
My little pony pez, stickers and unicorn poop (jelly beans).
Wrapped in clear bags.
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| one happy bday girl |
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| goodie bags and rainbow cupcakes |
Fun at the gym!
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| Everyone in the foam pit! |
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| Time to eat! |
Happy Birthday!!!
We waited until we were back home to open gifts. Carsyn had a blast with her friends and was thrilled with all her gifts. We greatly appreciate all our friends and family that were able to join us and celebrate Carsyn's 5th birthday!
All pictures located here.
- Pinterest ideas - links to everything listed below is in this album
- Oriental Trading co - pez, stickers, unicorn poop candy
- Target - plastic table covers, pink utensils, plates/napkins, rainbow airheads sour candy strips, rainbow Twizzlers
- Party City - My Little Pony Balloons
- Costco - pizza and drinks
- Walmart - #5 candle, stickers, My Little Pony shirt
- Goodwill - My little pony headband (brand new of course), they were fully stocked for Halloween which is where I found it. And since her fav color at the moment is pink, this worked out well. Target & Walmart also had the headband in the blue color.
