Yo Gabba Gabba

Ryan and Evan love Yo Gabba Gabba! I must confess that I enjoy the show too. It was a no brainer that a YGG themed party was in order for their second birthday. I started planning back in February, and I needed all of that time! I love to create things so I knew I wanted to complete a lot of DIY projects. Since I'm a mom who works outside the home I had to start early so that I could do a little at a time. I knew I wanted to incorporate the YGG characters rather than feature them so I gathered ideas from all sorts of places and then set out to work. Here is the invite I decided to go with:






The designer is Stacia from http://www.serendiptydesignco.com/. She also has an etsy store. These were custom designed, but honestly the process wasn't as smooth as I would have liked. Overall, though, I was pleased with the final product.

The party was supposed to be a backyard bar-b-que bash...HA! This is Connecticut and maybe by now I should have known that just because it's June doesn't mean that we'll have good weather. Last year it rained on our parade and we had to make a mad dash to get things set up in our house. This threw me for a loop and I wasn't able to do all that I wanted to do. This year, though, was different. Early last week the weatherman announced that the weather was going to be "perfect" on Saturday, but by mid-week rain was in the forecast. I learned my lesson from last year so I had a plan B. I even sketched out a floor plan. This mama was ready! So when we woke up to the gloomiest, coldest day we'd had in weeks on Saturday morning we switched gears and our backyard bar-b-que bash was moved indoors. I was bummed about it for 10 seconds, got over it, and then got to work. Let me tell you, best.decision.ever! Everything turned out so well!

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