A Very Merry Unbirthday

Olivia is 2!!!  Well, she's been 2 since the end of April but we just had her party a few weeks ago.  Between Easter, wedding showers and my parents traveling more in April then they have in the last 5 years, we had to postpone her party.  It gave me more time to get party stuff done study.  Yeah, I had all these cute ideas and I didn't get to do half of them.  I decided that all you really need for a birthday party is a kid and a cake.  Well, that and great favor bags, handmade by me, and a few little touches to personalize the party.  I thought it turned out pretty well, thanks to Nic, my MIL Evie, my sisters and my mom giving me margaritas.  Apparently, I'm a little high strung.  She thought the margarita would help.  I'm not sure if it did but the 2nd sure did the trick ;) 

It was so fun! We had Lawrence the "clown" and by clown I mean a guy who wears a tye-die shirt and paints faces, oh and makes balloon animals too.  We didn't play any games but no one noticed.  I think the food was pretty good.  My mom made her famous chicken salad on croissants.  I've asked her for the recipe and she told me to get some chicken, grapes, apples, walnuts, curry and something else and just throw it all together.  When I get more specific measurements and instructions I'll post the recipe. 

We had some other fun food but my fave was the dessert table. I made cupcakes with my sour cream chocolate cake recipe with fudge icing.  They were delish!  I was disappointed that I wasn't able to make her a fancy cake but the cupcakes were so much better for an outdoor party.  They were super easy to decorate, which was important b/c I was overloaded with tests and care plans- oh and trying to get my house ready for guests.  I bought these cute owl images from the Trendy Butterfly on etsy and put them on everything from the flatware we didn't use, to cupcake toppers and wrappers on the muddy buddy chex mix (my fave).  I made the cupcake "stand" It's just a bunch of boxes wrapped in pink gift wrap with some ribbon from HL.  I just played around with different boxes until I got the look I wanted.  Also, if you look at the bottom 2 pics you can see just a bit of my owl favor bags.  They were super easy and a lot of fun- just a bunch of circles and white paper lunch sacks. I think the favors inside were pretty cool too.