Can you tell me how to get to *Logan's* Street??

It's PARTY day!  After all of the preparation & mess taking up our household it's finally here!

I love planning parties, but most of all I LOVE planning my babies parties!  I know he is only two, but I like going all out no matter what the age.  I had such a great time planning  Logan's first birthday party & I loved seeing the end result and my sweet boy enjoying every ounce of my planning, so I knew I wanted to celebrate the same this year.

So without blabbering too much here is Logan's 2nd Birthday party :)

I wanted to have as many 2's & L's around as possible since the party was "brought to you by" those letters.  I'm still convinced that it's the cutest little party idea ever!  Thanks again Shindig Parties for your amazing work on the invitations & printables that I used throughout the party...you rock!

the gift table before anyone got there:

the favor table:

the food table:

the sweets:

 ...and now the party has started!

A huge thank you to Head Over Heels at etsy for your amazing job on Logan's birthday shirt!

It was a great day, in fact...one of the greatest to date.  Our babe's 2nd birthday was celebrated well & he had an absolute blast.  There is nothing more this mama could wish for!

TWO.

Two amazing years ago this is what our lives looked like:

Complete perfection people.  July 5th 2009 was complete perfection.

It kinda hurts to write this, the good kind of hurt, but my baby is two.

I can't even put it all into words.  What all I've learned from him, who he is as a person, how he has changed me immensely for the better, what I want for him, and just how much he means to us.

I'm so proud to be his mommy.

To celebrate his amazing day we went to his favorite place, chuck e cheese.  I admit that I kind of cringe thinking about the over priced token cost & bad pizza, but anything is worth making our baby happy.

& boy was he happy!

Happy 2nd Birthday our sweet logie bear!!  We love you more than words could even begin to express & we feel so honored to watch you grow each day.

It's birthday season

The first few weeks of July will forever be busy for us.  It's the joy of having 2 really awesome birthdays back to back.  On July 4th I turned 23 & on July 5th our sweet little babe turned TWO.

I get occupied with Logan's birthday being the day after mine & forget that I have a birthday too.  I think it's a part of parenthood, the things that once mattered just really don't.. like birthdays.  My mind was so busy with Logan's birthday & his big party the following weekend that I honestly forgot I was adding a year.

Lucky for me, my sweet hubby, family & friends didn't forget & we all got together for dinner in celebration of my butt getting older.

That right there is the ice cream cake of your dreams people!  It was soooooo yummy (& not just because I am pregnant!)

Justin isn't the 'party planner' of the family but he does a great job in making me feel special & not letting me forget that I still have somewhat of a "me" day on July 4th.  We rounded up the family & friends to eat dinner with and it was great!

^^ check out that baby bumpage :)  Eden is getting bigger!

Oh, and FYI

Logan is using his big boy potty on the regular these days.

He's just the most awesome little thing ever & we are so proud of him!  :)

For "prizes" (as Logan call's them) he gets a little bit of candy & a handful of change to put in his piggy bank.  I find us brushing his teeth a lot more often with all of the sweets & our change collection is pretty bare, which is GREAT because it means he is going potty like a pro!

Just had to share my proud mommy moment.

and the slacky blogger award goes tooooo...

Well, me of course.

Our lives have been full of fun & joy recently.  With lots of baby girl purchases, my wonderful hubby's birthday & tons of laughs with our little Logan.  I've not only been a slacky blogger, but a semi-slacky picture taker too.  I have however been crafting like a fool for my little love's 2nd birthday party and because I am tickled to death of how it is all coming together I want to share what I've done so far.

We're rocking out the Sesame Street theme.  Logan adores Elmo & although I am NOT into character-anything (especially clothes! ewe.) I thought I would cave on this one to make my sweetie happy.

For starters, here is the invite to the party

Brought to you by the letter L & the number 2, is anything cuter than that?!  A HUGE thank you to Shindig parties who made the invites, thank you notes & tons of awesome printable's for his party.  Check her out, she's rather awesome & super friendly!

I've also tackled some DIY stuff for his party.

$5 at the dollar store got me...

3 ugly trays & 2 ugly candlestick holders.  A lot to be excited about right?

I have been looking for a cute desert tray for the cupcakes & cookies, but I couldn't for the life of me find what I was looking for in our budget.  So what the heck, I'll make one!  I'm pretty sure that when I unloaded my crappy dollar store purchases for my DIY things Justin gets worried about my well-being.  Like, he thinks that we are going to now incorporate ugly glass candlestick holders in the party decor & the food will be served on 3 tacky tin trays.

First things first, you grab your trusty hot glue gun.  I glued one ugly candlestick holder to one tacky tin tray; now Justin is really worried about what direction the party is going.

Check out my awesome hot glue job.  Hideous right?  I never mentioned that I was a queen with a hot glue gun to anyone did I?

So once I glued the candlestick holders to the trays (& they dried) I stacked them so you can get the idea.

then I got out my favorite thing in the world.  Spray paint.  Red spray paint.

I went outside & gave those babies a good two coats & let them dry.

Then stack and add ribbon

& voila a desert tray that makes a mama happy. 


I'm rather excited about how it turned out & Justin is rather excited that I am 1.) not incorporating ugly candlestick holders & tacky tin trays into the theme and 2.) that I only spent roughly $5 on the desert tray of awesome-ness.

Ready for more DIY?

If you paused right here & I gave you one minute to guess what the hell was going on in my kitchen with this green tube & a 2 liter of Coke, what would you say?

My first guess would be a stripper pole for a leprechaun.

That was yours too right?

Luckily, we skipped on the leprechaun strippers for the entertainment at his party.  Not so sure how the grandparents would have loved that...or what my explanation would be for having them there.

Here is another little hint as to what is going on with the green pole:

It's all making more since now, right?  Once I wrapped Logan's birthday gifts from us I saved the cardboard tube & painted that sucker green.  I got the sign in the printable kit from Shindig Parties & glued it to some cardboard.

A little duck tape later and...

My little booger has his own personal sesame street sign for his party, that's like royalty in the two year old world.

Here is the rest of my crafting mess, which is currently taking over our dining room table.

what's inside the kid's favors-

Once Upon A Child scores- 2 huge canvas for $8!  No clue where they are going to sit at the party but I'm totally using them.

Well, that's that.  Our house looks like Sesame Street has thrown up in it.  There are crafts going on everywhere.  Logan is constantly trying to steal everything I'm making that has Elmo's face on it  & I'm rather ready to have our house back in order after the party on the 9th.  However, I am very not ready for my little baby to be a big two year old.  I'm going to go cry big hormonal pregnant tears over my baby growing up. Waahhh :(