This past weekend we celebrated Molly’s 2nd birthday. We are so blessed and were so grateful to celebrate another happy and healthy year! Beverly and I had a lot of fun brainstorming ideas for the party, and my friend Jessica was full of great ideas and help. {Hopefully you’ll be reading more about her and her upcoming ‘project’ soon!}

Last year, I had a hard time deciding between a black and yellow bee theme and a pink and orange theme; I went with the bees and it was so cute, but when it came time to design Molly’s invitations for her second birthday, I knew right away I wanted to use pink and orange, and incorporate a ‘peach’ image since she’s our Sweet Peach.

The invitations turned out awesome – I love, love, love them. I think they’re whimsical and playful. I wanted to incorporate several patterns of pink and orange and carry that idea throughout the party, so we went with some paisley, polka dots and stripes on the front with some zebra fun on the back. Thanks, Beverly!

I’ve got lots of fun details to share with you, but I realized that this post would get quite long, so I’ll go with our Menu Monday theme for now. I had the hardest time deciding what to serve, only because I had so many ideas and couldn’t possibly serve everything I wanted to. For the kiddos {big and small}, I ordered a Chick-fil-a nugget tray and put out some applesauce squeezers. Jessica made the cutest paper cones that we served Goldfish in. {Totally random, but have to share how the mind of a party planner works: Jessica sent me a picture one day of a shoe box from one of our favorite places and wondered how we hadn’t noticed that the shoe boxes were pink and orange?! So she punched holes in the boxes and we used those to display the paper cones! Genuis!} The kids also had their own beverage tub with juice and milk boxes on ice.

My mom and Jim’s mom were a huge help in getting the food prepared. My mom made the BBQ and the cupcakes {three flavors – vanilla, chocolate and strawberry!}, and Jim’s mom made the M- and 2-shaped sugar cookies and assembled the fruit cups. I used pink and orange fruits to stay with the theme: watermelon, cantaloupe, raspberries, strawberries and mandarin oranges. I rounded out the menu with some store bought cole slaw and chips and dip.

My washer and dryer are in my kitchen and instead of pretending like they’re not there, I realized they provided valuable “counter” space in the kitchen {if you don’t mind getting bumped with the side door every once in while} so I threw some pink and orange fabric over the top and set up a drink station. There was also a beverage tub outside with sodas, Izze drinks and adult beverages on ice. {ha, all the pink and orange looks just lovely against my red kitchen walls, huh?!}

Be sure to check back this week for more details about Molly’s Pink and Orange party and see some other parties we recently recreated invitations and other products for. Until then, here’s a shot of the birthday girl. Isn’t she lovely?! {She’s saying “twoooooo!}