Olivia's 2nd Birthday Flashback

cupcake face
Isaac
Grandma holding Sydney
coloring pages
eating her birthday cake
The grandma's (Isaac and Olivia's)

Olivia feeding Grandma cake

favors

I was looking at pictures of Olivia's birthday party last year, hoping it would inspire me for this year. I need to get the invites out asap. I'm not sure if I can top last year so I'm not even going to try! Last year Olivia loved reading the "Olivia the Pig" books so that was the theme. There was nothing available to buy really, like Olivia plates, etc so I really had to get creative. Some people see party planning as a chore, but I live for this stuff. Details are fun for me! I took the Olivia book to Kinko's, made color copies of some pics, took them to Sam's and they made them into edible cake images. I just got plates, napkins, streamers, table cloths, etc at the dollar store in red, black and white (the colors of the book). Same with balloons. For favors, I got red buckets at Michael's on clearance. I switched the handles from green to white in the store. I filled them with lots of fun little stuff like sunglasses, balls, necklaces, fruit snacks, raisins, (tried to keep stuff red) I found a pack of Olivia the Pig note cards at Barnes and Noble that I used as thank you notes attached to the pail for each child to take home. Since Olivia the Pig loves accessories, I sewed tiny red purses for the girls and red pouches for the boys. In the book, Olivia eats spaghetti for dinner so we had baked penne pasta with meat sauce, garlic bread and salad. For a coloring station, I used the left over color copies of the book and some printable Olivia coloring pages from the website to make fun pages to color. It was a great party! What the heck am I going to do this year?