Our Strawberry Birthday Girl

We gave our daughter a "berry" special birthday party. When deciding what them to go with, we thought about the things that made our her most happy. We could have went with Barney or Elmo. I jokingly suggested that my husband dress up as a life-size Barney. To my surprise, he said, "Where would we get a suit?" What a great daddy!! Ultimately we settled on a strawberry theme. Our girl loves her strawberries, or "strawbies" as she calls them. It seems she can never have enough. I think she enjoyed her strawberry birthday party, and, if I may say so myself, made for a very cute party! I must say I did get a lot of ideas from this wonderful blog I found while Googling "strawberry birthday party ideas": http://nesting-instincts.blogspot.com/2009/02/hello-friends-that-is-if-anyone-out.html

I made these cupcakes all by myself! (I'm just a little proud.) The icing was a butter cream icing I made from scratch! They were yummy!! The strawberry cupcake toppers were made by yours truly as well. I used a stencil, embossing pen, embossing powder, and a craft heat gun. My first time doing such a thing.
Because the cupcake holder I purchased only held thirteen cupcakes and because it took a long time to make those cupcake toppers, I opted to place a piece of fresh strawberry atop the remaining cupcakes.
Thanks to my friend, Dana, for the use of her Cricket in making this banner.

The favor bags. Each tag was personalized to say, "To my berry special friend _____."

Chocolate covered strawberries...each one hand-dipped by me! And they were goooooood!!

The kids all enjoyed the strawberry sunglasses!

This is our strawberry birthday girl, sporting her spectacles upside down.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No ... It's Super Strawberry Man!

This cute little girl, my niece, seem to evade my camera everytime she had her strawberry shades on. But as you can see, she did enjoy a bit of cake. :)
What can I say, we have an intelligent two-year old who loves to "read" cards.

The big present of the day. Her own kitchen!

Notice the very awesome fru-falicous (if it's not a word, I just coined it) tutu? That was made by my wonderful friend, Dana, who I must say really gives Martha Stewart a run for her money. Our strawberry girl had a great birthday. And even though the strawberries were super sweet and delicious, it's still bittersweet that my baby girl is two. What a treasure, these two years have been. I am a berry blessed mommy!