{"id":3866,"date":"2009-03-18T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2010-09-06T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T13:33:46","slug":"you-are-my-sunshine-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/you-are-my-sunshine-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"You are my Sunshine! Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"closeuplanterns\"“You are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine! You make me happy when skies are grey.\u00a0 You’ll never kn\"lanterns\"ow dear, how much I love you…”<\/p>\n

This song\u00a0fits my little one perfectly.\u00a0 If your little one or loved one makes your life brighter, then this<\/em> is the party for them! My little girl just turned two.\u00a0 For our family party, I had\u00a0fun decorating in colors as happy as she makes her family!\u00a0 She probably won’t remember much about her second birthday, but she really loved helping with the decorations and preparations.\u00a0 Decorating was so much fun and brightened our whole day.<\/p>\n

I love tulle.\u00a0 Tulle is as fluffy, airy and fills tons of space.\u00a0 It is flexible, useful and reusable for any occasion, plus it is cheap.\u00a0 I keep a bunch of different colored tulle in storage along with my paper lanterns.\u00a0 Here are my favorite paper lantern online sellers 1<\/a>,2<\/a>, 3.<\/a> Both the tulle and the lanterns are great to whip out for events and you don’t even have to buy anything!<\/p>\n

First, I used the orange, yellow and white tulle gathered in the center and secured by an elastic then attached the elastic to the center light fixture. Then I taped the other ends of the tulle to the walls in a tent-like fashion. Hang some paper lanterns of\u00a0 differing sizes, colors, and lengths.\u00a0 Voila! You have a centerpiece and a fun decoration!<\/p>\n

Liv loved it. She ran around saying “Wow! ‘range and yellow!” over and over again.\"jellojigglersstars\"\"cantalope\"<\/p>\n

\"cupcakecloseup\"Since it was just a family gathering, we casually invited everyone over instead of having invitations. If I had used invitations, I love these three:1<\/a> (my personal fav) , 2<\/a>, and\u00a0 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We decided to serve some of Livy’s favorite orange and yellow snack\u00a0 foods:\u00a0 gold fish crackers, oranges, pineapple, mac&cheese and cantaloupe! I served orange star jello-jigglers, but my little one was not thrilled about the texture.<\/p>\n

Instead of a cake, I made Orange Creamsicle Cupcakes topped with cupcake toppers featuring the birthday girl!<\/p>\n

I intended to make a cake from a recipe Loralee has for a marvelous orange bundt cake.\u00a0 Loralee says it is moist and divine.\u00a0 Her recipe sounded similar to a recipe I had heard about that my neighbor-slash-wedding-cake-designer-friend bakes – and all her food is divine. Check out her cakes here<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ll have to attempt making that bundt cake later because I didn’t have enough time to do it for this party and besides, we had oodles <\/em>of cupcakes since my improvised recipe required two cake mixes! I’ll post the Orange’n’Creamscicle Cupcake recipe next. Just beware: this makes a TON of really good cupcakes.<\/p>\n

The only disaster was after I had iced every single cupcake<\/em> with lacy frosting, I tipped over the whole cupcake tower! Now, I rarely icing anything, so this was a true tragedy. And it happened just as guests began \"cupcaketower\"arriving and before I had taken any photos (sniffle).\u00a0 Honestly, I had to mourn for a few minutes while cleaning up the deliciously sticky icing off the table, floor, myself, etc.\u00a0 But the birthday girl didn’t even know and\u00a0 the show went on!\u00a0 So, the cupcakes were more delicious than they looked with a side of orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream swirl on the side.\u00a0 Despite a high 5:1 \"tagforfavors1\"\"favors\"cupcakes to person ratio, there was not very many leftovers!<\/p>\n

We played a DVD that my husband had made during the party.\u00a0 It had the last two years of pictures put into a slideshow format! It was fun to see how much our little sunshine has grown!<\/p>\n

My favorite preparation for the party was the banner.<\/p>\n

It said, “Sunshine” with her face on either end.\u00a0 I don’t have a good picture of the whole banner, but I am going to leave a link in our Printables section for you to download and print your own.\u00a0 It would be cute just for summer!<\/p>\n

The favors were small boxes of gold fish crackers and bags of lemon drops.<\/p>\n

The tag says: “Thank you for brightening my birthday!” This will also be available (sans my daughter’s face) later in the printables section.<\/p>\n

I also LOVE this print from Nella Designs on Etsy <\/a>which goes perfectly with our theme!\"youaremysunshine2\"<\/a> Check her art out!<\/p>\n

\"bannerballoons\"<\/p>\n

Check out our other Kid Birthday themes:
\nParty for a Pixie Princess<\/a>
\nOne Lucky Duck 1st Birthday Party<\/a>
\nLi’l Buckaroo Birthday<\/a>
\nOne Awesome Carnival!<\/a>
\nA Ratatouille (Rata-2-ee) Birthday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine! You make me happy when skies are gray. You’ll never know dear, how much I love you…”<\/p>\n

This song fits my little one perfectly. If your little one or loved one makes your life brighter, then this is the party for them! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}