An Elmo Birthday….

Over the summer, I came up with what I thought would be the cutest Birthday party theme this year for Annabelle’s second birthday… We were going to have a “Pink Piggy Party”…  Well, that all changed around October, when our girl fell head over heels for Elmo. She’s crazy about the furry red-monster, and since we’re crazy about her, I wanted to do something that she’d love. It was her party, after all, so I wanted it to be all about HER!

This year, we scaled back compared to last year’s party, and only invited AB’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins…  (along with Uncle William, Aunt Stephanie, Willie, Aunt Carrie, “other-Uncle Adam” & AB’s BFF, Allie Claire.) We only needed 7 invites, so I just made them on our computer and had them printed up…

 

I printed a couple of the pictures we took to use on the invite, framed them and hung them at the party.

We had the party at in our sunroom. The great thing about having it out there, was that I was able to get a lot of the decorating done during the week leading up to the party. Annabelle LOVED going out there and seeing all the Elmo things! We were worried we were going to have to leave it decorated like that for good! Ha…

For decorations, we did the fabric banners over all the windows and doors. I’m REALLY going to have to come up with something else when it comes to party décor, since I’ve used these everywhere, but I just love how festive they make a party look! For these banners, I chose fabric in “Elmo colors” (orange, red, and yellow)… I didn’t want to use any actual Elmo fabric, in hopes that these may get used somewhere else in the future. I think they’d be cute for a circus or carnival party… I used the same fabric for the Elmo on her shirt, so everything coordinated! :)

Over the glass doors, we have wrought iron plant hangers, and I tied little pieces of remnant ribbons that I had (in the party colors), on the hangers… then hung the letter A & number 2 from them…

Annabelle LOVES balloons, so we had to have those, too! And what’s more festive than balloons?!?!? We have two sky-lights in the sunroom, so we filled those with balloons, too.

These were the centerpieces on the tables…

 

For food, we did AB’s favorite things…

We got a Chick-fil-A nugget tray, had mini BBQ sandwiches, waffle fries, and fruit salad.

  

Of course we had to have goldfish, too! We bought a real goldfish, also, to play “Dorothy”… Annabelle LOVED the “ish”..

After we ate, it was present time!

AB loved all of her new gifts!

After presents, it was cake time!

She was a doll as we sang, “Happy Birthday” and then she was such a big girl and blew out her candles!

When Little Miss was finished with her cake, she decided to break out some of her new toys and give them a test!

 

If you’ve ever seen Elmo’s World, you know the song… and you know that Elmo loves his “goldfish and his crayon, too!”, so that’s what I used for the party favors… We only had three little ones coming, so I sewed them all crayon rolls, and along with that, in their favor bag, they got an Elmo coloring book, some goldfish, and some Elmo stickers (because those are AB’s fave!).

 

I thought it was too precious when the grandparents showed up in their Elmo colors!

Grammy & Pop with the Birthday Girl

& Pappy & Granny with her, too!

And check out her Granny’s shirt!!!! Yes, it’s ELMO, bought and worn especially for the party! How fun was that?

She’s one loved little girl, and not just by those who were at the party! We are so blessed with such wonderful family and friends and I am so thankful that each of them are a part of our girl’s life, too…

~amw~