Lil Boo Boo Turns ONE!

My sweet little darling turned one a few weeks ago.  I remember, before having a baby of my own, thinking that one year olds were super grown up... and thinking that parents of one year olds were like old pro's... they've had a baby for a whole year so they've got it down.  Does anyone else feel (or remember feeling) this way?  It feels like we just brought her home from the hospital, AND like she'll turn 15 tomorrow - all at the same time.

Here she is, 5 days old! (photo courtesy of Heather Hart Photography)

 

 

 

And here she is at her first birthday party being adorable...

Anyways, my last post was all about what May is up to these days so I'll cut to the chase here... just wanted to share a bit about May's first bday bash because I and my army of amazing family and friends worked really hard on the all the decorations and such and I think it all turned out pretty cute.

So, the theme wasn't anything specific.. started out as "rainbows and polka-dots" and changed to "a custom rainbow and more balloons than any one household should ever contain."

My awesome husband and father in law spent the night before the party blowing up roughly 400 balloons... that might be an exaggeration but it was alot of balloons. May got to wake up on party day to a living room full of balloons, she got a kick out of it.

Lynnette came over early on Saturday morning and worked tirelessly for HOURS putting together this amazing balloon banner (that I left up for a week after the party) and a bunch of balloon bundles -- this was all done using a needle and thread and ribbon - she's amazing.  I owe pinterest for this idea... (please disregard the missing crown molding and unfinished carpentry in the backgrounds of all these photos... we are under construction)

Besides the balloon banner, the monthly photos was my very favorite decoration... I put each of the monthly photos I have taken of her in frames and put them on the mantel.  Then I put a block with the number of the corresponding month in front of each photo.  If I would have thought of this more than two hours before the party I probably would have painted the frames to match the party because I am sort of OCD sometimes. It turned out pretty cute and, I admit, it's still up. 

My mother in law and I prepared food all day long, nothing fancy but it sure was pretty!  We made some sloppy joe's (they weren't pretty), a veggie tray, a fruit tray, deviled eggs and a few different desserts.

I ordered cupcakes from my baker/cake decorator friend Melanie, they were so pretty!

We spent about two hours making these AMAZINGLY awesome rainbow rice krispie treats (another pinterest find!) -- only we did them in our custom rainbow colors (red, orange, yellow, turquoise, pink and purple).  These were a labor of love but totally worth it, they turned out awesome.

My sister in law whipped up this awesome little carrot cake for May -- she had a chocolate cake the previous weekend for a little photo shoot and she did not like it one bit, so we toned it down a bit for the party and I think she liked it!

These are May's birthday bloomers that she wore whilst eating her cake... thanks Gumby (sorry we didn't get a better photo of them)!

We blew up some extra balloons so the kids could run around like crazy people in the back yard with them... it was a big hit! And I should mention that it was a rainy cold miserable day and then the clouds parted and the sun came out just in time for the party to start! Thank goodness because there were about 70 people at this crazy shindig and we needed the outdoor space! I cannot imagine if all the kids had been inside the house... yikes.

This is my nephew Jack, isn't he adorable? Yeah, he is.

 

 May got this hilarious little tiny chair and she LOVES it... doesn't she look relaxed? :-)

 

 A good time was had by all!