The Last "First"

It's official. My baby has turned the big ONE. We recently celebrated her first birthday party and being that it was the last one we were gonna celebrate in this household, I was a tad bit sentimental and therefore had LOTS of fun with it!

This was the invitation I picked out. Obviously this is not ours, as I figure it's probably not the smartest to post all our info for all the world to see :) You can personalize yours here at Tiny Prints.

This was our party table:

You like? I LOVED!!! We had all our family over for lunch, so we served turkey croissant sandwiches, fruits and veggies. I stuck with a color theme (pink and brown) as opposed to a character theme.

Remember the cupcake tower idea I gave you all here? Well, I rewrapped those boxes I saved and....VOILA!!!A perfectly pink and brown girly centerpiece to showcase your cupcakes!

I made my own cupcakes and while I won't say they were the most beautiful things I'd ever seen, these cupcake toppers drew in all the attention! I got them off etsy and you can get yours from Nicole here. Her store is called Party Treats and she does all kinds of fun toppers, banners, cupcake wrappers, etc. She will do a custom order just for you if you ask her!

She made me some toppers with an "M", some of these cute little birds, and some number 1 toppers-all in my pink and brown color scheme.

I got this idea from my co worker Sandra, and I loved how it turned out. All the kids in our family loved them too. I filled stemware with pink, brown and white sixlets (mainly because they were cheaper than M&M's). You can find them at any major party supply store. Then I bought some pretzel sticks, dipped them in melted pink chocolate and rolled them in chocolate sprinkles. Just lay them on some wax paper to dry and then stick them in the glass.

C-U-T-E!

This turned out to be one of my FAVS! Once again, I was clicking away through etsy and came across Heather who owns Chickabug. She custom makes these waterproof labels for any occasion. I thought since I was serving lunch, bottled water would be super easy as everyone could just grab their own. Her labels made the water even taste better!!! (ha ha-at least that's what my oldest daughter said) :) They WERE super cute! You can find her shop here.

Are you a fellow mom who has a bow on your girlie girl's head every moment of every day? Well, FYI:I got this one at.....HOBBY LOBBY!!!! Yep...you heard me right. I loved that it matched my color scheme (and her outfit) perfectly.

IS IT TIME FOR CAKE YET?!?!?!

Oh....she so has me wrapped :/

She appeared to be mesmerized by the fire :)

She didn't seem to be in the mood to get messy, but she sure loved her ice cream!

But...what good is a first birthday part without some really messy cake photos?

Portrait Innovations. They made my day when we took these!

What? Don't I look sweet all covered in yummy cakey goodness???