Owl Birthday

This morning we celebrated Autumn's 2nd birthday with a local family brunch. Except 2 local family members didn't even make it and one was laid up during...read on.

Autumn has been very excited about her "owl birthday" coming up. She doesn't particularly love owls on her own but shortly after her 1st birthday I chose owls for her theme for her next birthday. Seriously. I had considered ladybugs but went the owl route for some reason. My amazing applique-ing friend made a shirt for Autumn in December so I didn't really feel like changing it. It was a very casual event. I didn't go owl out like I should have/could have. Oh well.

When the first guests arrived I was in the shower and two of the 3 kids were still in their p.j.s so Jason took Autumn to get her dressed for her big day:


So, I made a few owl cupcakes for her:


We went with pink and brown for the colors:

That was the extent of our guests...Jessica and Caise, Gramoo, and Grammy and Grandpa John back there. Janna and Lauren couldn't make it this morning. :(

It took me a bit to get everything all together and ready to serve. We tried some brunch enchiladas for the first time and I re-made a couple of things like my doughnuts in pink and brown, of course, a fruit pizza which I didn't photograph but was very pretty. This delicious artichoke and ham strata, some mini blueberry muffins, some breakfast potatoes, my mom made coffee cake for me, and I made this punch that we've had a couple of times but I used raspberry sherbet instead of lime to make it pink. :)

As we were sitting down to eat I realized Jason and Easton weren't around and hadn't been for awhile. I went to investigate and apparently Easton was feeling nauseated up in the bathroom. Great. I came back down and we started eating. Then I heard the little dude get sick upstairs so I spent more of my time with him. He wanted his mama. He had another round pretty quickly after the first one, laid around crying about his tummy hurting so bad. Eventually he moved to my bed:

He's been fine ever since, though but as we weren't sure, we had him stay upstairs just in case. We didn't want him possibly germing up anyone else.

So Jason and I took turns with him and sometimes he was up there by himself watching a movie or playing Angry Birds and the party went on. Autumn got to open some presents...we're saving the stuff from us for her actual birthday on Wednesday.




Princess stuff! Someone's excited!


Caise too!




She was very excited to open the Baby Stella that Gramoo so carefully researched and selected:








She loves that Stella has a pacifier:


Thank you, Gramoo!


And Stella watched as her new mommy opened a new Baby Stella outfit from Grammy and Grandpa John:


Autumn got her first Barbie-type doll: a Belle ballerina from Caise as well as some Ariel bath toys. Plus a Disney Princess purse from Lauren with all sorts of girly princessy things inside. Our girly girl was in heaven.


And even though most everyone was super full from brunch, we brought out Autumn's owl cupcake:

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And took off her adorable shirt so she could eat it. Look at her tongue all ready to dig in:


Yum!


Yay!


Sparkly birthday princess!


Just love how Dalton dotes on her:




A little fun with Grandpa John who joined her for a cupcake:


Oh my! I'd say the cupcakes were a hit!


And pretty shortly after that Autumn and Stella went up for a nap, our guests headed out and we let Easton come downstairs. He's been just fine and is even eating and drinking. Hmmmm. I'm not sure what was up but I hope it's over, that's for sure!

Thanks for checking in. Can't believe our baby girl is about to be TWO!