Lilly's 2nd birthday party -updated

My baby girl is almost 2 year old!  How did that happen?!?!?

Today we had her birthday party!  I did a tea party for Lilly and a few of her little friends.  It was so much fun to plan, organize, and prepare everything for the party!  In the end, everything turned out perfect and the girls had so much fun playing together!

The invitation - A Tea Pot of course!  Thanks to my good friend Jennifer who has a magic paper cutter, these were not all that hard to put together!

The cupcakes - Ice cream cone tea cup cupcakes!  These took me a while to figure out logistically.  I was trying to follow the instructions I found online for making ice cream cone cupcakes where you just bake the cupcake in the ice cream cone.  The problem with this is that the cones kept tipping over/leaning.  I finally just made the cupcakes as usual, bought jumbo ice cream cones, trimmed out the inside ring of ice cream cone, trimmed the bottom portion of the ice cream cone off and stuck the cupcake in the top.  It worked perfectly!  The bottom is a plain old sugar cookie "glued" on with royal icing.  The handle is also made from royal icing that I allowed to harden for several days.  I also glued the handle on with royal icing.

Yummy food table -Chicken salad with croissants for the moms, flower shaped PB & J for the kids, veggie straws, carrots, goldfish, yogurt covered strawberries and bananas, cupcakes, and "tea" (juice for the girls) in the tea pot. 

Because I couldn't find a tea set that was age appropriate and big enough to actually use, my mom had the great idea to take clear plastic plates and cups with flowers imprinted on them and color the flowers with sharpies.  It took a bit of time, but was a great idea!  They were pefect for this and safe for 2-yr olds!!

The girls eating lunch at their kid table.  I borrowed the table and chairs from another good friend, used a light pink table cloth over the table, and then slipped white pillow cases over the chairs.  The pillow cases were big enough to cover the entire chair to the floor.  Then I tied some tulle around the back of the chair, tied a big bow, and glued a flower on.  They were really cute!    Before anyone else arrived, Lilly kept walking up to the table and patting it saying "my party", "my pretty party".  She was so excited about her party and really seemed to enjoy it.

I bought a few stems of flowers really cheap to make the hats with and had a bunch left over so I started doing all sorts of other things (napkin "rings", chair decorations, and wreath) with the leftover flowers.  It worked great and everything tied together so nicely!  Great uses for $3 worth of flowers!  I also used leftover tulle from Lilly's 1yr birthday to make the wreath and napkin rings!

 Four sweet girls - Mallory, Jocelyn, Lilly, and Maddie

 Lilly was not sure what to think of the candle or singing!

 But she thoroughly enjoyed the cupcake once the candle was removed!

Seeing how happy Lilly was during her party (and before as I set up), it made all of the work totally worth it!  I was sort of worried that she wouldn't get anything out of it being only 2, but it was obvious that all of the girls enjoyed the party!  This may have to be the party theme again in a few years when she is a few years older!