Our Joyful Journey: Parker's Second Birthday

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Parker's Second Birthday

Whew, what a day! Parker birthday was so much fun, but this mama is tired from all the prep work. Jimmy and I "woke" Parker up together this morning. We gave him a very enthusiastic "good morning!"

After a quick family photo and snuggle...

...we had breakfast as I was baking his cake and getting dinner ready. I also had a bunch of decorations to get ready. I chose a robot theme many, many months ago! If you remember his first birthday, I have a tendency to go overboard. I had a great idea for invitations and they turned out perfect! I never would have been able to make them without my Silhouette.

I made his birthday banner a few weeks ago, so we just had to hang it. I realized now that I never took a picture... It is basically the same as last year, except the letter were wrapped in aluminum foil and I hot glued nuts, bolts and washers to them.

I made a gear chandelier out of our kitchen light. Kind of whimsical, I may leave it up for a while.

Next was fuel cell labels for the beverages.

And a small sign for the snacks.

Parker's favorite meal is breakfast so it seemed to be a great idea to have breakfast for dinner! I also decided that waffles find of look like circuit boards, which robots have! I used this waffle recipe and everyone loved them. I was expecting a bunch of leftovers, but there are hardly any. We had all the toppings you could ever want: strawberries and cream, powdered sugar, syrup, peanut butter, nutella, chocolate chips and sprinkles. We also has cheesy hash brown cups inspired from this recipe and sausage.