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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA!











Living in Los Angeles, Mexican food and Mexican culture are things my friend Anna and I adore and wanted to celebrate. Being three-year-old girls, our daughters said that DORA is something they adore and wanted to celebrate. So to honor their request for a Dora party, we threw them a FIESTA!  Despite the drizzly day, the party was a total blast for all involved, with lots of fun details to bring Dora's world to life while honoring her mexican heritage.

Check out lots of fun THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA activities, foods, decor, and games after the jump...

NIKO AND SCARLET'S THIRD BIRTHDAY FIESTA!

A sweet dessert table...

with homemade cookies...


packaged up pretty...

and margaritas...

a tower of cupakes with papel picado toppers...

a homemade cake...

and two lovely ladies to blow out the candles...


Papel Picado-themed invites from Sprinkles Invitations...


Colorful tables...

With made-in-mexico tissue paper flowers...


and treat bags...


for the pinata loot...





Four craft stations...




a Petting Zoo...









Personalized ukeleles for the birthday girls...


Cascarones...


Homemade temporary tattoos...


Bacon wrapped hot dogs (an LA street food specialty)...

and a taco cart...

and nachos too...


a bouncy house...



A sort-of-terrifying Dora...


That the girls adored...


A pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game clearly placed by a non-parent (about 6 feet too high)...


A crowd of margarita-happy parents...


and joyful kids...






And two pretty birthday girls in matching pink dresses...



Ole!

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posted by Jaime @ 12:01 AM 

23 Comments:

Blogger Jessie said...

Lovely pictures of a lovely party!! It looks like a wonderful time was had by all! Seeing how much hair Scarlet has is an inspiration to me, as my 19 month old has very little now! Happy Birthday Scarlet!

March 30, 2011 at 1:14 AM  
Blogger Yana said...

great job!!! really big celebrating:)

March 30, 2011 at 1:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is so gorgeous! I want a party like this for myself. :P You guys put a lot of work into it and it looked like it paid off.

March 30, 2011 at 1:21 AM  
Blogger babycawley said...

So cute! I love the girls' dresses. Please tell me that you made them and that you will beposting a tutorial on how to make them, so Baby Maycie can have one. :)
Happy Birthday Little miss Scarlet and Niko!

March 30, 2011 at 3:46 AM  
Blogger Lisa said...

How cute! Love all the colors and ideas.

March 30, 2011 at 5:50 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

So adorable! The birthday girls look absolutely fabulous in their matching dresses. Happy birthday to both of them! Oh and my favorite homemade thing were those beautiful guitars. I am in awe of your mad piping skills!

March 30, 2011 at 5:50 AM  
Blogger Tristin said...

Oh.my.goodness! What a party! Little miss Scarlet is absolutely gorgeous... the picture of her looking at the camera and you looking at her in the background looks like one of those keepsake pictures--you know, a really special one because it catches the essence of the mother/child relationship. You know what I'm saying?

Anyhow, that party looks like a blast! Me gusta la fiesta mucho or something like that. Ole!

March 30, 2011 at 6:24 AM  
Blogger HarmlessColor said...

That giant Dora looks a little awkward...maybe more like an adolescent than a preschooler.

But Wow! This looks like the party of a lifetime...and they're only three, so I'm sure they'll have more of these to come too!
I love the paint your own idea. Very nice.

March 30, 2011 at 6:56 AM  
Blogger Melissa Lewis said...

Beautiful. Looks like so much fun, and gorgeous at the same time:)

March 30, 2011 at 7:09 AM  
Blogger Ashley said...

WHOA! What a party! Looks amazing! Happy Birthday Scarlet....and Niko!:)

March 30, 2011 at 7:22 AM  
Blogger Dina said...

Wow! As a parent in the 80s I thought I was cool for having my invitations match the cake plates.

March 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM  
Blogger Missy said...

Dude, those cookies are HARDCORE! How long did they take you to decorate and how in the world did you get your icing to be black? Did it still taste good?! Did it turn the kids' mouths greenish black? I had a really bad experience decorating sugar cookies with black icing. I tried to make sheet music and piano keys. It was scary. But yours are amazing!

March 30, 2011 at 7:28 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

WOW! This is FANTASTIC! I love how you tastefully incorporated your daughters' Dora request without going overboard with the Dora merchandise. Very smart. Very cool.

March 30, 2011 at 7:38 AM  
Blogger Liz said...

Holy smokes thats a birthday party. I know what you mean though. My dd first said she wanted a fairy party and I was fine with that, then she said a tinkerbell party, so I threw a tinkerbell party without that much tinkerbell.

March 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM  
Blogger Emily said...

So fun! Love that the pretty girls got Dora without the party being too Dora-y. I love the crafts idea and the bouncy house. Their dresses are so fun too! (Were they also made by you?)

March 30, 2011 at 9:19 AM  
Blogger jillian sara said...

Coolest party EVER!

March 30, 2011 at 9:34 AM  
Blogger Lil Mama Stuart said...

I've been trying to think of how to display a ton of cupcakes in a fun way - love the cupcake tower!

March 30, 2011 at 9:45 AM  
Blogger Emily said...

Ridiculously cool, I'm not sure this could ever be topped!

March 30, 2011 at 10:19 AM  
Blogger Lori said...

AWESOME party. Where did you find the cute mini shopping bags for party favors?

March 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM  
Blogger Tenetia said...

WOW!!! What a great party!!! Those cookies are INSANE!!!! i would have eaten them all before i would have had the patience to decorate them as beautifully as you did....annnnnnnnnnd, could your family be ANY. MORE. GORGEOUS?!?!?! i mean, really....scarlet is sooooo pretty! good luck to you when she is a teenager!

ps. i hope to never see that big frightening dora again.

March 30, 2011 at 10:55 AM  
Blogger Deyna said...

I have also thrown a third-birthday Dora party, but it was nothing compared to this fiesta! Everything was beautiful - especially love the craft stations. I've learned you *must* keep those little visitors busy at all times! For the fourth-birthday princess party I piped castle cookies, and totally thought I'd given myself carpal tunnel. But they sure looked good. :)

March 30, 2011 at 1:27 PM  
Blogger Vanessa/NessieNoodle said...

what a throw down!
so many fun ideas, looks like a blast.

March 30, 2011 at 4:46 PM  
Blogger Walker said...

Where did you find your pinata?

July 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM  

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