Nicholas' Sesame Street 2nd Birthday

We decided to celebrate Nicholas' 2nd Birthday this year over the July 4th weekend.  We wanted all of our family to be able to come so no better time than a long holiday weekend.  Since it was a holiday weekend we rented a cabin on Lake Guntersville in Scottsboro, Alabama so it would also feel like a mini-vacay for everyone.

The Invitations...

Thankfully I had lots of help on the design of the invitations.  My sister-in-law, Heather (check out her blog), and her mom, Jackie (and her's too) designed the punch art Sesame Street characters for me.  It was all great in theory but it did take quite awhile to fully assemble twenty of these invitations.  I was very happy with the way they turned out.   

The front is a spinner card so that Elmo's head would slide back and forth.  The Sesame Street "sign" I made in Word and had printed at Kinko's and then cut myself by hand.  Each colored dot is a 1/2" circle punched and glued to white cardstock.  Not sure what I was thinking when I decided to do that.  HA!

This is the inside of the card with Cookie Monster, Grouch, Big Bird, and Grover.  All of the characters were made using scalloped circles for the heads and different size circle for for the faces.  Luckily I enjoy tedious work.  They were really fun to make.

The Cake...
Again, I had a lot of help.  My mom and brother were a huge help making the cake and cupcakes.  I was going for a punch art look to coordinate with the invitations.  So happy my brother was there to make it actually work when my original plan didn't work.

I didn't too much for decorations since we were at a rented cabin. 

We made LOTS of tissue paper pom-poms to throw everywhere!

The food table before we set out the food.

Pretzel sticks dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles.

These were the favor bags for the kids.  They were made using the Stampin' Up! milk carton die.



Overall it was a great birthday party!!  I can't believe my little mister is now two!!

little mister did have on an Elmo shirt but it didn't quite make it through the day.  :)