1.) I wanted to decorate once for fall and for Kate's birthday. After all, I am extremely behind our on blog, if you haven't noticed, and this is how I feel with life in general so I didn't want to over complicate our lives by decorating for fall and then decorating again for Kate's birthday.
2.) I had already used pumpkins in her first birthday with a "Pumpkins & Pink" theme so I wanted something a bit different.
3.) I more or less make all of our decorations, so the more time I spent contemplating on a theme, the more down to the wire I got with my time to make our decor. And if you re-read number one, you will see that time is very precious these days.
4.) I wanted her birthday to still be fun and toddler-esk, not just a house decorated for fall.
And one day it HIT me. A WOODLAND THEME! Of course! We could do fall leaves, trees, red, orange, brown, yellow, woodland animals...YES! YES! YES!
So I got started immediately once I decided for sure that we'd be doing a Woodland Wonderland for Kate's 2nd birthday!
I made her 2nd birthday photo banner, two felt trees that had her favorites listed on one side and an open side for guests to write their favorites, a felt leaf garland to hang over the fireplace and leaves and hearts to hang over our island. I spent a lot of nights cutting out letters or leaves, contemplating the menu, searching for cupcake toppers, or doing something else for her party, but it was all because I wanted to. (And I was kind of down to the wire...)
I was so happy with how it turned out!
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| Hanging leaves and hearts above the island, photo banner, and a glimpse of the trees in the background! |
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| Festive fall food! (Perhaps THAT should've been the theme!!) |
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| Look whoooo's two!! How is that possible? |
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| Mimi and Gramma! |
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| Our Guess How Many Acorns game! (Note to self: acorns have little white worms in them. And they are disgusting! They ended up all over the bottom and sides of this jug. There were so many that we threw the entire thing away when we were done with the party.) |
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| Now this is how you dive in! |
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| She likes icing. Can you tell? (Funny thing - apparently when Brian was little, he did NOT like icing and would request cakes for his birthday sans icing! Kate definitely likes icing though!) |
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| The birthday girl! |
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| Opening presents! |
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| Playing with new toys! |
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| So happy for our two year old! |
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| A bit of fun at the park! |
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| It's way more fun to slide together! |
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| The essence of being two! |
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| Ice cream at Jeni's after dinner at Northstar. Yum! |
I have major plans to do another video just like we did last year for her first birthday. When I do, I will post it here, but until then you'll have to just peruse the photos again!
Update: THE VIDEO IS AVAILABLE!!!
Kate's 2nd birthday was a complete success! We'll leave you with a few of Kate's favorites at age two and the favorites of our guests that came to visit:
KATE'S FAVS (In no particular order!)
-Yogurt!
-Jack!
-Mommy!
-Daddy!
-Being silly!
-Applesauce!
-Mickey Mouse!
-All of her lovies!
-Chicken biriyani!
-Bone jammies!
-Doing things by herself!
-Helping out!
-Swings!
-The park!
-Wheels on the Bus song!
-Playing with her baby!
-Taking walks!
-Ketchup!
-Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!
-Word World!
-Hide-n-Go Seek!
-Blanket!
-Elmo!
-Exploring!
-Animals!
-Ice Cream!
-Chapstick!
-Play-Doh!
-Slides!
GUEST FAVS (In no particular order!)
GG - Videos!
Aunt Kathy - Making apple pie!
Uncle John - Golf and OSU!
Mimi - My Grandkids!
Papaw - Food and sleep!
Gramma - Walking on the beach and spending time with you!
PopPop Morris - The first hug!
Daddy - Sports!
Mommy - Music!
Grammy - Playing piano and my grandkids!
Uncle T - Mountains!
Mallory - Coming home from school!
Aunt Lisa - Birthday parties!
Gina - Binnie Boos!
Aunt Katy - Family and friends!
Aunt Judy - Buckeyes!
Aunt Colleen - Being outside!
Uncle Bob - Pizza!
Aunt Tina - Family!
PopPop Hendricks - The beach!
Courtney - My family and music!
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