I wanted blog some great pictures from my niece's 2nd birthday party. My sister as I've mentioned before tends to go a little over the top on pretty much everything. In the end it always turns out spectacularly and everyone really enjoys themselves. Her youngest daughters 2nd birthday party did not let down in the slights.
My sister tends to look for unique locations in the valley to have these fun birthday parties and never wants to use the same location twice. This year she found a little charms - Tolmachoff Farms on 75th Ave and Glendale in Glendale, AZ. They have a large picnicking area in the rear of the farm that she turned into a fun ho-down for the lil' ones.
Here is a great picture of the dessert and sweets table. Her cowgirl 3 tiered chocolate cake was the centerpiece. She had purple(vanilla) as well as chocolate fondant covered cupcakes to the sides. Cotton candy and purple carmel corn on the edges. The apothecary jars are filled with varieties of purple candies including grape licorice, purple iridescent gum balls, grape taffy, island punch jelly bellies, purple chocolates and faintly large purple swirly lollipops! In front of the jars are the dessert pastries. In the small mason jars at layered strawberry shortcakes and in front; pecan squares, fresh marshmallows, special made farm house sugar cookies, miniature apple pies and lemon tarts.
As mentioned above. Here are the fondant covered cupcakes. They were so cute with all the different animal faces for the kids to enjoy! And the picnic tables were covered in burlap table clothes with purple satin runners. Each child had their own little basket full of kiddie foods and their own bottles of milk!
This is my eldest niece Alarah. She had her face painted by the face painter and animal balloon maker. It was such a great touch to the party. All the kids had their faces painted and had little animals and fun toys made from balloons. One of the cutest ones I saw was butterfly wings for the little girls to wear, what a great idea!
The cowgirl of the hour! My youngest niece Kaia. She turned 2 and she sure was ready to celebrate. She had so much fun running around, riding the farm's pony, their go-carts, enjoying the petting zoo and running around in their corn bin. I was able to pull her away for about 5 minutes to grab some quick birthday girl shots. She is absolutely adorable!
The hostess with the mostess and the birthday girl making their want to the train ride - I love this shot.
This was a great shot of the train ride for all the kids. They had a blast while the 4 wheeler pulled and swirled around the farm land. The overcast weather turned out to be quite a blessing because the sun wasn't too overpowering, but provided just enough warmth from the cool breeze blowing around.
We had a great time and can't believe another year has passed. The next big event is my own daughters 1st birthday in March. We are contemplating having it at the Phoenix Zoo. <-- coming {somewhat} soon.
