palmer turns three (3)!
Every year we head home for Palmer’s birthday – this year we spent a week in Michigan before throwing her annual party at Ammy’s house; it was a blast! This year’s theme? PIZZA!
If you know Palmer, you know she’s down for anything as long as “my friends” will be there, and I was so grateful when we landed on a pizza theme, because this meant catering would be a breeze!
After being displeased with the cakes we ordered for her birthday party the previous two years (and for her sister’s party in January), I decided to give making the cake a go myself. Shot out to my husband – turns out fondant is a lot like Play-doh, which made it manly enough for him to help.
cake and a cupcake 
Kedzie didn’t mind the cake either
While it wasn’t perfect, (I may have accidentally baked the cake twice), Palmer didn’t mind one bit – and we saved a ton of money! Besides the dessert bar provides plenty of alternatives, and is a fun element to every party. This year’s options included anything green, white, or red I could get my hands on:
- Red Vines
- Rock candy
- Pepperoni cupcakes (homemade to match the cake!)
- Iced sugar cookies
- Cherry slice gummy candies
- Caramel chocolate balls (individually wrapped in red foil)
- Hard-shell chocolate candies
- White chocolate popcorn drizzled with red and green chocolate melts
- Suckers
all things green, white, and red. 
pizza, pizza 
pepperoni cupcakes
It wouldn’t be an August party without the POOL! The kids were complete fish, and thankfully PouPou and Dad were happy to swim with them!
these towels were a perfect find! 
so much fun with friends 
the pizza floats were a hit 
daddy’s girl
I am happy to report the piñata was not tomahawked this year, and each kid was able to take a couple of at bats before it busted open.
Have you hosted a pizza themed party? Drop me a note and let me know how it went! I think a pizza party would be a great theme for when Palmer is older as well – it would be so cute to have them in their little aprons baking their own pizzas!