We recently went through what I lovingly call “Petrovic birthday season,” as four of us have birthdays in a 25 day stretch – which also includes Valentine’s Day and a ton of other family birthdays (Sasha’s sister and cousins, my grandma and aunt). As I was editing the girls’ birthday party photos, I realized that I never shared Isla’s flamingo themed birthday party from last May! Although I’m very late to share these, I have posted every one of the girls’ parties to date, so didn’t want to skip out now!

Isla invited all of the girls in her class over to swim, and we had such a fun afternoon celebrating! One of my best friends, Kristin, helped to style the dessert table and inflate a million balloons – she is so talented. We are grateful for our sweet new friends here in Austin! Lots of photos below!

Just days after Poppy turned one year old, we celebrated this milestone birthday with some of our closest family and friends. We moved into our new house just two weeks beforehand, which made the days leading up to the party feel absolutely nuts, ha! But everything went smoothly (except the rainy, freezing weather!), and the girls all had the best time. I rented a soft play package which came with a ball pit and other little toddler play toys – it was such a hit. Poppy loved it and spent most of the time there. With this said, the cake was definitely the highlight of Poppy’s day. That girl crushed it – I was impressed!

We call Poppy ‘Popstar’ most of the time, so doing a star theme party just felt right! Then came the idea of star pop-its, which felt even more right, ha. Since we only invited a handful of people, I was able to hand deliver rainbow pastel star pop-its in custom star bubble mailers – so extra, but we had fun in the process! One of my best friends, Monica, designed the invitations. I love them so much! I knew that I didn’t want a black and gold star party – and I’m so ready for Easter by the time January and February roll around, that a pastel rainbow color scheme was our one and only choice. I have linked all of the party items below! It was not my most over-the-top party, but it was probably the most fun one. The first guests arrived at 11am and the last left at 8:30pm. That is my kind of party! We truly did ‘party like popstars!’ I’ve shared lots of photos below!

As I mentioned here, Isla had big birthday party plans that didn’t come to fruition because of the coronavirus, but as she lay in bed on her birthday, she declared it the best day ever. She had three requests: 1) A swim playdate with her best friend, Phoenix, 2) A chocolate cake from her teacher (and insanely talented baker!), Mrs. Bramlett, and 3) Slime. Well, Isla got all three of those things (yikes to the slime!), plus a very festive and joyful drive-by car parade which was so fun and truly the icing to the day.

Mrs. Bramlett’s mermaid cake was unbelievable. I was so sad to cut it! I’m amazed by her. Her business is named Mississippi Hummingbird Co. (you can view her Instagram here). I am so grateful for her beautiful cake! Also, my bestie Monica (also known as Paper Flour Ink or “The Woman Who Can Do Any and Everything”) came in strong with her design skills with the beautiful mermaid scale backdrop (to match this Target mermaid party line), glittery Isla cutout and gorgeous pearl macarons. The last big shoutout is to Tiffany of Glamfetti who inflated balloons days ahead of a trip she had planned so that Isla could have a festive birthday dessert setup. I love these three ladies!