Desserts for the Deserving

Do you guys know Amanda over at I am Baker? Last year she started this wonderful event to send desserts to people who need it. What a wonderful idea! I read about it last year, and loved this concept, so this year when she asked for volunteers, I was so excited to help out. Below are the cookies I made for my deserving recipient!

Thanks Amanda for organizing such a fantastic event!

Beachball Birthday!

Some of our good friends have a little boy who celebrated his 3rd birthday today! He had a super fun backyard party complete with crazy sprinklers, a pool and a waterslide. What more could a 3 year old want?! I have never seen a kid enjoy the water as much as Parker did. I think he would stay out there playing all day if his mama would let him. For decorations there were about 20 beachballs around the yard for the kiddos to play with...which totally inspired the cookies for the party. I made beachballs and swim trunks to go along with the theme. Happy Birthday Parker!

Beachballs...a little more difficult to make than I imagined, but I'm happy with how they turned out!

Assorted swim trunks to match the colors on the invitation

Cookie Platter

Name Card cookie for Parker :)

Popcicle Party!

My totally awesome nephew turned 2 last Friday. He had a popcicle party, well, because, to put it mildly, the little dude is obsessed with popcicles. Based on the pictures I have from the party, I believe he consumed 4 different popcicles within 2 hours. That would be in addition to the cake and cookies that were also there. We made a few different cookies for his party, so check out the pics below!

2s for the 2 year old!

And LOTS of 2 inch circle cookies

Circles with piped popcicles

Yay for popcicles!

Different designs on each popcicle

Popcicle Platter!

All bagged up and ready for guests to take home!

Thanks for "popping" by, and thanks Mark & Layne for asking me to do cookies for the big buddy's birthday!

First Birthday Party!

One year ago, I was sleepy. Like really, REALLY sleepy. You see, one year ago, I had a little boy who was only 1 day old. And one day old babies don't sleep for long. Therefore the mamas don't sleep for long. And if you are lucky enough to actually go to sleep... chances are you will be woken up by a nurse approximately 7 minutes after you finally fall asleep.

Hospitals + newborn = no sleep

Glad I could impart this wisdom to you.

Fortunately that was a year ago. Now I could get lots of sleep--if I wanted to go to bed early. But that would interfere with my copious amounts of TV watching. I mean, when else am I going to watch So You Think You Can Dance? Or Project Runway (returns Thursday!!! Wooo!).

Anyway, so yesterday we had a big 1st birthday bash for our little boy. And being the good mama that I am, I had a few desserts for our guests to choose from. Check them out below!

Hippo Cookies!

Chocolate cupcakes with "1" cookie stuck in it!

Hippo smash cake for the birthday boy!

And because I'm one proud mama, check out the birthday boy digging into his cake!