Flooded With Love: One

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Jordan's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2nd Birthday Party

Get ready for picture OVERLOAD!

This past Saturday we celebrated Jordan's 2nd birthday Mickey Mouse Clubhouse style! But before I dive into the details, I'm going to take this opportunity to record the details of her 1st birthday since I started this blog after that took place.
When Jordan turned one, I took advantage of the fact that she didn't have an opinion about the theme and decided to do a Zebra print with hot pink, green, and blue "theme". I had a blast planning for this party and even though we initially planned on it being a family party, there were those select few close friends that couldn't be left out. Aren't there always?? We ended up with somewhere between 20 and 30 guests and everything was perfect.

I followed this tutorial to make the balloon wreath for the door and even though it took a bajillion more balloons than I expected and a lot of mindless hours to put together, I would do it again in a heart beat. I loved the way it turned out. I also loved the favors.

I made candy apples, but dipped the apples in white chocolate and drizzled them with milk chocolate to look like zebra stripes. I got quite a few raves about them!

Another crafty detail was Jordan's picture banner with her monthly pictures from her first year.

Lastly, her outfit was and still is one of my favorites! And a 1st birthday wouldn't be complete without some cake smash pictures!

Everyone had a great time and it was so great to see so many members of our family there to help us celebrate. Even those from as far as Sacramento!

Now on to her 2nd birthday!

Like last year, I had wanted to keep the party small. She's two. She wont remember. What's the point in going all out and spending a bunch of money? Well.....I keep forgetting who I'm married to =o) Mr. Social Butterfly. I love him to pieces and just need to come to terms with the fact that the Floods don't have small parties. With that said, Bobby reserved a jumpy for his little girl and made sure that it was here the morning of the party so that she could have time to enjoy it on her own and get lots of jumping in. And jumping she did! She had been talking about the party and jumpy for weeks and was beyond excited.

She was in it as soon as she was able and Bobby took some time to enjoy it with her as well.

Then he had to take off and run some last minute errands, so I got in for a bit, till I had to continue tending to B and doing more party prep. My cousin Kaitlin got in with her for a bit and I'm pretty sure Grandma was in there for a little bit as well. Once we all came inside, she stayed out there and I kept an eye on it as I nursed B, but I couldn't see inside the jumpy, I could just see one corner. So when my mom got up to do something in the kitchen, I asked her if she could see J. Yup, she could see her alright. Yup, she was jumping and running around just fine. And YUP, she was doing so completely naked! She had unzipped her jam jams, taken them off and took her big girl undies off with them! I'm thanking my lucky stars she didn't pee in the jumpy.
We used the packaged decorations from Party City/Walmart to decorate the house with some generic colored streamers to match...

I had a lot of fun planning out the food and creative labels to make everything go along with the MMC theme and was especially stoked on the Mickey Mouse serving bowls that I found on clearance at Target...

Huge THANK YOU to my mom and cousin for all of their help with the goodies!

The jumpy was a huge hit (go figure!) for the kids and the dads! Aside from the complete and utter joy plastered on my daughter's face all day, I had an overwhelming sense of happiness seeing all the smiling and laughing faces throughout this party. We sure are blessed. We have such amazing family and friends to help us make these girls feel incredibly loved and special and I couldn't thank them all enough.