A VERY sesame {or maybe rainbow} birthday

It's a long post and picture heavy, but here is our take on a Sesame Street Birthday Party!

{Stay tuned throughout the week, and I will be posting some of the details and little projects}

Oscar cake pops-with Slimey gummy worms in his pot. 

Big Bird cake pops-with birdseed filler.

Elmo cake pops-with Dorothy goldfish in his pot.

Cookie Monster cake pops-mini cookie cereal.

I made cookies with my alphabet and number set.

The CAKE! 6 layers...rainbow colors on the inside.

I LO-UHVED the cake topper

Her little cake.

Favors-giant lollipops, and treatbags.

Drink table.  The framed picture is from a friend of mine from work.  She copied and colored a pretty vintage Sesame illustration and put a cute happy birthday banner on it.  I'll post a close up...it's so neat!

I made Dorothy Jello with Swedish fish.  From Martha Stewart's Recipe.

Rainbow fruit kabobs.

Lotte got a water table for a present from her Maw-Maw.  It was a big hit with all the kids.

Two Cute!

Click HERE to see Lotte's Birthday Tutu Swimsuit

I'm linking Lotte's party up to these gracious hostesses this week!
Fun Friday Finds @ KoJo Designs
Sundae Scoop @ I Heart Naptime
Tute Tuesday @ Little Birdie Blog
Get Your Craft On @ Today's Creative Blog
We Did It Wednesday @ Sew Much Ado
Craft and Tell @ Cherished Bliss

Editing takes a long time...

Especially when you are planning and throwing a big party while working full time and attempting to be a good mother all the while.

We were a little short on money the past few months coming off of maternity leave, so I decided to try and take Lotte's birthday pictures myself.  I don't think they turned out too badly either.  {and if you think they did, well don't let me know...I'm sensitive}

Here are some of my favorites.

My sweet little 2 year old!

A VERY happy birthday!

Happy Birthday to my sweet little Lotte.

It took 3 full days to bring her into this world.

{Wednesday}

{Friday night--she was born on Saturday}

It was worth the wait and pain.

I can't believe how much I love her.

Especially on her second birthday.

Take a Peek!

Here are some snip-its from Lotte's 2nd Birthday Photo Shoot!  Hopefully next week I will have enough time to reveal the whole kit and caboodle!

I am excited her party is almost here, I want it to be done, but I don't want my baby to be two!

Garden Update

Our gardening skills are pretty stellar!  Here are some of our bounty!

Look at the GIANT peas!  We really haven't gotten very many, but I've been freezing any of the peas we get and I'll make Brother some baby food in a few weeks.

We have been getting LOTS of our sugar baby tomatoes coming in.  Lotte loves picking and eating these!

Here is our Yellow Pepper.  He is even bigger now.

We only have one beefsteak tomato right now, but the plants are getting bigger and there are lots of blossoms on it.