{"id":3083,"date":"2011-07-17T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2011-07-18T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T21:36:29","slug":"a-berry-fun-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/a-berry-fun-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Berry Fun Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anna had a birthday party to celebrate turning 3 today.\u00a0 She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake party, which was a pretty easy theme to work with!\"Carolyn<\/a><\/p>\n

For food, we made a variety of pinwheel wrap sandwiches, a veggie tray with dip, a layered fruit salad (in my new Pampered Chef trifle bowl – it was pretty as well as tasty!) and chips with homemade french onion dip.\u00a0 I also made some blueberry muffins<\/a>, my mom picked up some incredibly delicious lemon bars, and I made these strawberry shortcake cupcakes<\/a> in lieu of a fancy decorated cake.\u00a0 (We skipped the raspberry torte and the apple dumplings.\u00a0 There were plenty of desserts already!)<\/p>\n

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A cupcake with a tasty surprise inside!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Strawberry mascarpone frosting. Sinfully delicious!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Topped with a strawberry, of course!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A tower of berry delicious strawberry cupcakes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve never made cupcakes from scratch, so I was really happy with how they turned out.\u00a0 The baking was the easy bit – filling them was a bit fiddly and time consuming.\u00a0 And then the icing started sliding off the cupcakes while they were in the stand and it was a messy disaster, so they were on there approximately long enough to take the above picture and then went back in the cupcake carriers.\u00a0 But even though they turned out a bit messy, they were delicious!<\/p>\n

I made a bean bag toss game a couple of weeks ago, which we put out but didn’t really organize.\u00a0 The kids were mainly more interested in just playing with each other.\u00a0 So much so that I don’t think any of them ate lunch!\u00a0 And then it was time for cupcakes.\u00a0 Anna was very excited to blow out her birthday candle!<\/p>\n

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Cupcake and candle, ready to go!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Happy Birthday to Anna!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Make a wish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Delicious strawberry cupcake!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a “berry” fun birthday party, and it was followed by some time in the pool for those who could stay and play.\u00a0 Thanks to all who came and made Anna’s birthday party fantastic!<\/p>\n

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Opening a card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A viewmaster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aunt Genevra & Uncle Dan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lizzy & Michelle by the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Denis and his girls in the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anna had a birthday party to celebrate turning 3 today.\u00a0 She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake party, which was a pretty easy theme to work with! For food, we made a variety of pinwheel wrap sandwiches, a veggie tray with dip,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,21],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna","category-cakes","tag-birthday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}