Birthday

So we had the boy's first birthday last weekend and boy was I crazy. I think that Etsy and I do not mix well. I get way to many ideas and then I think I need to do them all. The boys enjoyed their cake and after opening presents fell asleep. We are so blessed to have sooo many people who love our boys and will join us in celebrating the big day.

 This is the birthday boys table. We put a blue table cloth on the table, the used the highchair decorating kit to dress up the table. I tied balloons to the back of the highchairs. We hung a decoration above the highchairs. 

This is the Elmo cake that my mom made. It was very cute! We used the Wilton Elmo cake pan.

This is the other cake we made. My mom was concerned about people having red and blue mouths, so we decided to make this one. She ordered an edible picture off of ebay.

To make the Cookie Monster we used the Wilton Elmo pan and just filled in the nose with blue.

My crazy banner I made for the boys. I got this idea from Etsy and decided to make it. It turned out really well.

Our thank you for coming to the party. We had the caterer make cookies.

The photo banner I made for the party. It shows each boy from newborn to 11 months. We didn't have the 12 month pictures yet. I will add them later. After the party I am going to laminate it and make it into a book for each boy.

Some of our party guest and decorations. 

This is the kids table that the caterer had for the kids (I think the adults ate a lot too) It was peanut butter and jelly stuffed sandwiches, carrots and dip, fruit, cheese balls and lollipops.

 On Ebay I found these mini cake pans. We made an Elmo and a Cookie monster. We had a kid that has an egg allergy, so we made the cakes with sierra mist.

Ayden enjoying his cake!

Landyn enjoying his cake!

Opening presents

decorations and guests

Great Grandma

Then next to the boys I put a Elmo or Cookie Monster puff. I used my cricut machine to cut the eyes and mouths of the puffs. I was going to make my own puffs, but was running out of time. When shopping for paper products at Party City I found ones that were already cut. Then just glued items on them.

more food

food

Table decorations- I found buckets at Target and Party City. I used paint pens to draw faces on the buckets. With my Cricut machine I cut out different Sesame Street characters, and the letters A and L for the boys initials and the number 1. I used a plastic liner from Walmart and quick growing grass to grow grass.