Jake's 2nd Birthday Party - Mickey Mouse Birthday | Julie Marie Portraits | Rochester, NY Photographer

If you know my son, you know that he loves Mickey Mouse.  So, when I started deciding what to do for Jake's 2nd birthday,  I knew it had to be Mickey Mouse theme!  And with that I knew I needed a couple of things:

• the cake had to be made by the one and only Dakota's Custom Confections
• the invites, banner and tags needed to be made by the super talented Kristi Young Design 
• the cookies and cake pops had to come from Stephanie's Patisserie

After I got all of that in order, I just needed to wait for my family to get here as they were bringing the cake, cookies and cake pops from Ohio.  Well, everybody made it in last weekend, and we celebrated with our family and friends.  Based on the picture below, I think you can tell Jakey had a great time!  

The cake was incredible!  I don't know how she does it!  Can you believe it also traveled 6 hours in the car from Ohio?  It made it in one piece and was absolutely perfect!

This is one of my favorite invites ever!!  I just told her it was mickey mouse theme and my colors were navy and red.  Incredible!

We love Thursday mornings in our household because of....

Jake will sit and look out the window all morning just waiting for the garbage trucks to come by! :)

Happy 2nd Birthday to our Jakey Jake!

Happy, Happy 2nd Birthday to my handsome little guy today! 

It's funny how I think about how sad I was last year at this time with him turning one, but this year, I absolutely LOVE this age.  I love that he can now have conversations with us, tell us he loves us, sings his abc's, counts to 10, talks about all of his cousins and grandparents, talks about his friends, loves on his doggy, Dexter, plays with his cars and plays ball ALL OF THE TIME, uses his manners (pease, thanky, cuse me), feeds his doggy every day, LOVES to read books, sings lots of songs and most of all, I love those little kisses that he gives us and his armless hugs.  He has truly brought us more joy than we could have ever imagined!  We love you, Jakey Jake!  Happy Birthday little guy!

And here's his two year pic....

and his month by month picture April 2011-March 2012