A First Birthday Party

Nearly all of my free time for last three weeks has been spent on making birthday party decorations, favors, and treats.  I would play with Keith and Evie during the day, but once Keith went to work and Evie went to bed, I would spend a good 4-5 hours each night working.  The pay off?  A super cute party for my little lovebug.  She was so cute dressed in her homemade birthday dress and hat (thanks Grammy!) and she knew it was her special day.  She walked around and greeted guests with a smile and put on her very best center of attention act.  I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the party.

Mama and the beautiful birthday girl.

Eating her watermelon!  Yum!!

This is when we started to sing happy birthday to her.  She had us all laughing with her excitement.

Nina is a yummy cake maker!

She loved all of her gifts (well mommy loved the clothes!)

Here is the super cute dessert table.  I made the banner with rainbow cardstock, a cricut for the letters and a ribbon that I sewed the paper to.  Isn't it great?  Definitely holding on to that one!  I also love the balloon arch!  I got the idea on Pinterest and knew that I HAD to make one for the party.  It took a lot of breath and time, but it was so festive and really made the decorations!

 Because I went with a Very Hungry Caterpillar theme, I had to do these cute cakepops.  They were a bug hit with all of the kids (who all wanted the red heads haha).  My girlfriend, Emily, and I spent a whole morning making these and our ice cream cones.  I have to say, they were totally worth it!

Mini cherry pies!

I even had all of the food he munched on in the story.  I found these cute tags pre-made online and made the little tag holders one late night.

I had a copy of the book for friends and family to leave a message for Evie to read as she gets older.

My amazing Nina and Mom made this fabulous cake for Evie!  Those are Mini M and Ms and our littler caterpillar was made of fondant covered Rice Crispy Treats.  So cute!!

As a favor I ordered 4" lollipops and made these super cute tags to put on them.

This party was worth every once of effort I put into it.  I love how everything turned out and had so much fun.  It is still sinking in that I have a one year old, but I had so much fun the first year of her life, I am so excited to see what kind of surprises are in store for this year!!