This amazing, adorable beautiful boy of mine turned one in August. Now, like any self-respecting, slightly insane mother, I had his party all dreamed up months in advance. The evidence: Birthday Pin Board.
It was the beginning of something crazy, but we all enjoyed it! I had so much fun finding all the perfect little details.
The dipped pretzel rods my mom and I made at midnight (it makes them taste better, I swear!)
The spread, including my daughter's cake, choc full of food dye! Her birthday is the day before little man's, and she had a separate party. But we had to sing happy birthday to her too!
These awesome little piggy biscuits are made out of Grand's biscuit dough, a little egg wash, and some peppercorns. They would be super yummy stuffed with cheese and pepperoni or ham!
The gorgeous smash cake, it was so perfect!
The Baby Einstein caterpillar my oldest son and I made, little one went nuts when he saw it! It's still hanging out in his room. It's balled up packing paper on the inside (newspaper would work), covered with tissue paper and attached with clear packing tape. A few bamboo skewers hold the head in place, and the antennae? are pipe cleaners. Not too much work for a big impact!
The utensils all wrapped with John 1 Anthony napkin rings, I love how these turned out. A nice touch for no extra money. These were just printed (nothing fancy, cut, and glued with a glue stick.
The birthday banner I worked SO hard on! This was time consuming as all get out and I didn't even get a good picture. If I had a Cricuit (hint hint) it would have been soo much easier. Colored cardstock, cutting 24 letters by hand, the cardstock by hand, stringing them all together. Can I mention again how glad I am I started early?
These balloons were so awesome, they stayed up for weeks! It took five people to blow them all up, the living room was just covered in balloons. I strung them in sections, and we hung them in three places.
The Kool-Aid bar, lots of color with little effort!
One more shot of the rainbow cake, just cause it was cool!
And the most amazing first birthday cake ever! This was created by some awesome friends of the family, you can check out their work here: Dreams By DC
It's absolutely everything I had in mind!
Little one was SO amazed by his cake, he just loved it! All of his little "friends" were brought to life.
His onesie was made by me- just an applique, then the embroidery was done at a friend's shop. I love how it turned out!
Our little one is so lucky to have such a loving family and friends to help celebrate his first birthday!
