Savannah’s 2nd Birthday

It was Savannah Marie's second birthday and we partied our little hearts out at Kelkenberg Farm. Just as a side note, if you live in the Buffalo area, this is a FANTASTIC place to have a birthday party. A birthday package includes a tour of the farm, pony rides for the kids, a horse drawn hay ride to the sunflower or pumpkin patch, and use of their large and beautiful carriage room! 

The party started at 2:00 so we arrived around 1:30 to set the room up and get everything ready. My mom and I stayed up late into the night the day before crafting, DIY-ing, and making my vision for her party come to life. Everything you see above came from Target, Dollar Tree, Party City, and Amazon (Details at bottom of post).

My sweet girl went right for the twizzlers as soon as I put her on the table for a picture.

The popcorn corn on the cobs were a huge hit! I was so glad because those are what took me the longest to make! Everything below are all ideas I found on Pinterest! 

• Popcorn Corn on the Cob
• Licorice Lasso's
• Suckers in a Haystack
• 'Pitchforks and Shovels' Utensils 
• Color Combination
• Cow Tails and Root Beer Barrels
• Dairy Jars for Milk and Cider
• Popcorn Kernel Sunflower Centerpieces
• Pig Nose Pink Cups

As soon as everybody arrived, we got a tour of the farm and all of the kids got to pet the animals. They even got to brush the horses and milk a goat! There is a neat water pump where you can race little rubber ducks and that kept all of the kids busy while the adults set up lunch and when it was time to clean up. 

After the tour, my mom, Chris, and I set up lunch in our room while all of the kids went on pony rides right outside. The belly laughs, the smiles, and seeing the happiness on all of in in laws faces watching their kids have a ball made me feel even more certain we picked a perfect venue for Savannah's birthday. 

After a lunch of subs, potato salad, watermelon, and chips, we all took a horse drawn hay ride to the sunflower field! It was gorgeous and everything you would think it would be. It was a photographers paradise and I WISH I made someone take a family picture of us! I was too busy enjoying the moment, and snapping shots of family and friends who made her day special #worthit. 

If you look in this picture, you can see a little bumble bee pollinating the sunflower. #Savethebees

After the horse drawn hayride, 

My mother OUTDID herself with the cupcakes! She stayed up two days before baking, frosting, planning, detailing, and making these perfect farm animal cupcakes. I'm never going to order from a bakery again! Crossing my fingers she will do Shannon's cupcakes for her birthday too! 

She even made Savannah a small barn cake we could put candles in when we sang Happy Birthday to her.

Every time she blows out her candles she looks at me and says "MO PLEEESE!" So of course we light them up one more time, sing to her a second and third time, and let her blow them out again. I guess that means she got three wishes on her birthday. Hopefully at least one of them comes true for our sweet girl. We cannot thank everybody enough for making the drive out to the farm for her party. It was a day filled with everything happy!

Paper Flowers - Dollar Tree

Paper Fans - Target

Animal Cut Outs on fans - Amazon

Sunflowers - Dollar Tree

Hay Bales - (Mini) Dollar Tree (Large) Amazon

Metal Buckets - Target

Red Utensil Holder - Target

Wood Tray - Already had from Marshall's

Animal Lolipops- Amazon

Felt Farm Animal Puppets - Target

Candy Jars - Dollar Tree

Cow Treat Bags - Party City

Felt Letter Board - Amazon

Mini Corn on the Cob Decor - Dollar Tree

Mason Jars - Dollar Tree

Centerpieces - Handmade by me (Used burlap, rafia, corn kernels, and flowers from Dollar Tree)

Napkins and Plates - Party City

Animal Picks - Amazon

Backyard Tea Party

One of my best friends and I love getting our kids together for play dates and we decided it was time to add some fancy and fun parties into the mix. Last week we had the sweetest and most delightful little tea party in our new backyard with the best friends! We got the girls all dressed up in their favorite fancy dresses and decorated the yard with all of the tulle, flowers, garland, and porcelain tea cups. 

How sweet are her babes?!?

She even made delicious cut out cookies in the shape of tea pots! They were the most buttery. delicious, and tastiest cookies and they were a huge hit, especially with Shannon. 

I brought over a tiny porcelain tea set for the littler kids to play with. Little miss Vera oh so carefully set the whole thing up on that little blue table. She was in the zone putting the tiny tea cups on the tiny plates and then the tiny spoons in the tea cups.

She even learned how to poor tea (pink lemonade) from a real tea pot! She is a pro! 

I set up the outdoor table with a silk tablecloth, tea cups, tea pots, paper doilies, cake stands, vases, and a tulle runner. I was going for a shabby garden party look. I got the runner, and fake flowers at the dollar tree. The teacups are all heirlooms. Yes I know what you're thinking....how and why did I let the kids use my precious teacups? For or a couple of reasons. I am a firm believer that the best way for kids to learn to be careful with things is by practicing to actually be careful with things. Also, I knew two adults would be right there supervising making sure everyone was being gentle. Also, how many china cabinets have you seen where everything or most of the things in them have never been touched or used? What is the point of having nice things if you don't ever get the chance to enjoy them, use them, or see them being used? Seeing the girls have their first tea party with my heirloom teacups just makes them that much more special!  

Earlier in the day I went to Wegman's to buy things for our finger sandwiches. I made turkey and swiss with tomato; ham and cheese; and cucumber with dill dip. I could have ten of the cucumber ones myself, but the girls weren't too big a fan of them. They will forever be ham and cheese lovers. At least they tried something new? I also got grapes they could nibble on as a side with their sandwiches.

Look at how cute those tea pot cookies are!

Lastly, at the local Italian market I love picking up packs of these Buaducco wafer cookers. I got strawberry and vanilla flavored, dipped them in melted white chocolate and sprinkled them with girlie sprinkles! The girls loved licking all of the chocolate off.... 

Overall it was a marvelous and fantastique (as Fancy Nancy would say) tea party. The girls felt extra fancy, fun was had, and we are already planning our next outdoor party!