Avery's Family Birthday- (Part 1)

Friday was Avery's 2nd Birthday! We got up early & headed out the door for a fun day at the splash park in the sun with friends.

First we had her favorite breakfast, pancakes! I sang Happy Birthday to her a million times & she finally said, "No Mummy".




I took some pictures of her before we left to see all her friends!





We enjoyed playing in the water for a few hours!












Afterwards we went to lunch with Amy & her boys. Avery just loves these boys so much!



Even though Avery's birthday party was going to be Sunday, I still wanted to have something special on her actual Birthday with just our family. So we invited them all over for pizza Friday night at our house!

Avery was all ready to go in her Paul Frank shirt!




I had so much fun playing with the colors in her birthday this year. I always love bright colors so it was fun to tone it down with some pastels; pinks, blues, & yellow's!

I LOVED these letters from Hobby Lobby & had to have them. I'm going to do something fun in her closet with them & spruce it up a little sometime over the summer!





I had little touches of cupcakes throughout her birthday too because she loves them so much! I always call her my "little cupcake".




I had stickers made at a local shop in our area. My good friend's husband owns it & he was SO amazing to work with & did exactly what I wanted. If anyone out there has ever tried to do a "Paul Frank" themed birthday, it's NOT easy to find things; especially pink "Julius" Paul Frank. So I found a label on a gift bag & took it up to him & he re-did all of it for me with his graphic designer. I was so excited. For any NWA folks, I will make sure & link up his information once I show you the remainder of her big party. He made some stickers for several little things, as well as a poster.




I also had him make this for our house & also used it at her party.



These days I am loving everything BALLOON! It's fun when you have a toddler because it's one of their favorite things to play with. I use to hate them at parties but Im starting to really like them these days.



These were my favorite piece. I met a girl at a local shop in our town that is amazingly talented. Her & her Mom do some aweseome stuff & you just wouldn't believe the goodies they can paint. After visiting her store several times I had to ask her to make me some personalized things for her party since again, it's so hard finding Paul Frank stuff.

This mirror was actually grey from Hobby Lobby. It was originally $11.99 & I got it 1/2 off. I had her paint 2 of them exactly alike to match all the colors of the party & she added glitter- my fav! I just eat her up & will be doing some fun advertising for her & maybe even a giveaway so stay tuned for the next post on some other things she did for Avery's party, I will link up her store info then. You will die when you see what she can do!

Her Mom reads my blog so shout out to you! Im dying to meet up & have dinner with these fabulous ladies!




This cake was my favorite thing ever. Can you believe that my Mom made it? She is precious. I wanted something special for her actual Birthday, but didn't really want to go out and have someone make one since we were doing something for her Sunday party. So she said she wanted to surprise me with something. I had no clue what she was doing until she came over with this beauty. AMAZING!!! All free hand! And it tasted delicious! THANK YOU MOM!





We had pizza for everyone & Ave ate on her special plate!



The family had such a good night, we enjoyed spending time with Avery on her 2nd birthday!

{Boo, I just realized I left the guys out of most of the pictures- sorry boys}







Time to blow out the candles! Avery kept trying to stick her fingers in the cake while we were singing to her to get a little lick! She was so precious blowing out her 2 candles.







We all enjoyed spending the rest of the evening outside watching the girls play in Avery's new sand & water table from her Nanny & Poppa. She has played with it ALL weekend!





We spent Saturday running errands & finishing up some stuff for her party. We started off the morning hitting up some fun garage sales with my sis in law Kara & niece, then went to the Farmers Market.

That afternoon we went to Toys-R-Us & then played outside the rest of the day in the sprinkler!





More to come of Avery's special 2nd Birthday party weekend with her friends...