everyday dreamer.: a little birthday celebration...almost a year later.

07 March 2012

a little birthday celebration...almost a year later.

i don't usually like doing posts about events. mainly because i feel like all i end up doing is, "first we did this. then we did this. and then we did this. the end". boring and lame. but...i was looking back through pictures of lucy's second birthday party and realized i was pretty proud of how it turned out (thanks in a big way to my friend shannon). so...here's a post about an event in our little world. happy second birthday to lucy kate...way back in may!

we had planned to have her party at a park close by our house. but as the day of the party dawned blustery with a chance of rain, we made the last minute decision to move the party to our house. this, of course, created a ton more work for me (and shannon who arrived early to help me out!) as my house was no where near clean enough to entertain. we shoved piles of stuff in closets and behind closed doors (some piles remained in those places until the fall...oops!) and began to arrange the decor as best we could in my dining/kitchen area. the theme was "little birdie" and i love how the decorations turned out! a few pictures...

table in the entry way...with a little book i made of pictures...

gift table!

dessert.

LOVED the colors of the flowers...

these little pictures were supposed to be set out on each of the picnic tables at the park as well as hanging from the pennant flag banner i made (and never got a picture of) but seeing as we had to move the party indoors...they just got set wherever we could stick them!

nest cupcake.

goodie bags for the kids (they had little wooden bird houses for them to paint, along with some candies in plastic eggs...)

the party itself went just fine. our house handled the crowd without mishap and we didn't even miss the park. lucy seemed a bit overwhelmed with all the attention but she didn't cry at the singing and certainly didn't mind all the presents. a few more pictures of the festivities...

overwhelmed birthday girl with her mama...

the play kitchen is always a big hit...

the candy was also a big hit!

still a bit overwhelmed! my mom made her dress and pants...i crocheted her crown (the night before! gah! nothing like the last minute...).

the general scene.

more baby dolls! can a girl ever have too many of those?

birthday girl's cake...

naomi was taking a nap...but here's the closest thing we got to a family picture!

birthday girl with her favorite snack: strawberries!

lucy's birthday party happened a week after her actual birthday so we had to do a bit of celebrating on her actual day. here's a few more pictures of that celebration...