Our Baby Turned One!

Our Baby Turned One!

Our littlest one turned one recently. Boy was this a bitter sweet moment in time. Our last kid has passed by her littlest stage. We were trying to figure out how to celebrate this moment in time. We also have our third born's birthday a week after Little One. We decided to do a dual birthday party. How fun and intimidating. Originally Little Guy wanted a Thomas the Train party and I just couldn't figure out what to do for the girl side of that party. He mentioned a Mickey Mouse Party and we went with it. So here is our version of a Mickey and Minnie party.

 Our Sweet Little One in her Minnie Mouse outfit. She is looking mighty happy to be one!

 Here's Little Guy in his Mickey getup. We had a hot digity dog bar for lunch. We offered hot dogs and everything we could think of to pair with them. We had coleslaw, chili, sauerkraut, onions, relish and the typical condiments.

 Here is our Minnie Cake complete with figurine.

 Here is our Mickey Cake with it's little figurine. Of course we had plush animals to match up.

 Here is Little One with her smash cake. She actually ended up consuming a lot more cake then I would have expected.

We did red plastic tablecloths for most of the tables. I used black polka dotted wrapping paper as table runners. We hung polka dotted balloons from the ceiling, in both red and black.

 So hubby made a race track for entertainment. We brought all sorts of cars, monster trucks and super monster trucks for them to race. It was a hit! It turned into more of a hit when this happened.

 This was an unintended activity! Usually those are the most fun. The kids were supposed to do toilet paper bowling, but figured out that spreading around the toilet paper was much more fun.

We had a Pluto's Lost Dog Bone Hunt. After scattering dog bones outside, the kids got to hunt for them and then turn them in for ring pops.

We would never have been able to pull this off without the help of family and friends. We are so blessed to have all these people in our lives. Thank you! We love and cherish you!

 

1st Birthday Beach Party Part 2

We sat and made a list of all types of things we associate with the beach and tried to match food items to that. Here is what we came up with...

Swishy Fishies are Goldfish

Neptune's Garden is our veggie tray with dip.

Sand is vanilla pudding with crumbled graham crackers on top.

Jazzy Jellies are sweedish fish pushed into blue jello.

Here you can see our Fish Bowls. Just blue Jello again with Sweedish Fish pushed into slits we cut.

We also had SeaGull Wings which were chicken wings.

Here is our cupcake tower. The same 4 images were used on all the signs and these cupcake toppers.

And no 1st birthday would be complete without a smash cake for the birthday boy.

1st Birthday Beach Party Part 1

After spending a weekend at the beach as a family, Little Guy made it very clear to us that he loved spending time in the sand. When his first birthday rolled around we went with the sand thing and made a beach in the backyard.

We dumped many many bags of playground sand onto a large tarp. His birthday happens to be at the end of summer, so I got plenty of beach toys on the cheap to help the kids dig and fill and dump until their heart was content.

I thought about putting a kiddie pool up to simulate the ocean next to the sand, but was more afraid it would be mud next to the sand. I guess you could also do a sprinkler.

Instead of goodie bags we sent each kid home with a cute sand bucket and an assortment of toys inside it. We had these cute little tags we made on Adobe.

I'll show you the food from the party next time. It was so cute and I love how it all followed the beach theme.