But I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do for his party, if one at all. I mean its just turning 1 - he won't remember it and its for the adults and parents in his life anyways. I thought about not doing one at all to just having a very small dinner with us my sister and grandparentals. Then again, he's our first baby and he's turning ONE - and we love any good excuse to throw a good bash. So what the eff, right?!
So I started brainstorming ideas for cute party ideas. I seriously considered a theme party, but my sister not being a huge fan and also the person who will single handed help me pull this things all together - I took her advice and steered clear of any cartoon/tv/character themes.
Originally we had planned for a hockey party but ultimately decided that would be better to do in a couple years when all the kids are older and can skate at the ice rink.
My sister and I have been into making cupcakes the past year - really cute cupcakes if I do say so myself. We've made them for holidays, parties, neighborhood street parties, work, birthdays - you name it. I came across this cake pan at Target and decided Sully's party would be a cupcake party!
We're hoping to get it to look something like this - at least thats the goal. This cupcake tower is probably way nicer than nay one we'll be pulling off, but we're going to give it a valiant effort - minus the creepy baby Elmo sucking his finger.
This is the birthday set that I decided on ordering for the party and the colors we'll end up doing. It's really hard to find cute Birthday settings for boys. I ended up finding this one at www.1stwishes.com.
My sister and I plan on tapping into my old preschool teaching days and are going to make homemade play dough, which I'm very excited about. We're going to make them into cupcakes of course. We'll leave the base color for the bottom part of the "cupcake" and use colored play dough to form and make the tops. We're planning on wrapping them up in cellophane with some colored ribbon and a little tag with instructions on how to make your own homemade play dough. I love the smell of homemade play dough. It can last for months if you seal it correctly when done playing with it and remember to refrigerate it. Plus the cost is close to nothing (I bet most of you already have all the ingredients in your kitchens) and theres no extra additives.
On my search for all things cupcake (okay, okay I guess this ended up having a theme after all, but its cute!) I found these really awesome things called cupcake pops.
Usually when we bake we also will do homemade caramel candy, brittle or chocolate covered pretzels, so this isn't too far off from things that we're use to working with. The recipe seems simple enough, I just hope we can make ours come out as pretty first time through. I've decided to use this as the edible centerpieces on the tables. I plan on picking up some cute outdoor buckets at the 99 cent store and sticking them in some styrofoam with some cute colorful bag filler on the tops.
We decided for spacial reason to have the party at the park. We can accommodate the 30-40 guests we're expecting nicely. The park has walking paths (we told everyone to bring bikes/wagons/skates/whatever!) two really nice playgrounds, lots of trees and hills and a duck pond right next to the pavilion we're planning on having it at. I decided to make "duck food" for the kiddos. I've been collecting and drying out bread scraps the past couple of weeks and we'll mix it all together and put them in cute little bags for all the kids to keep them busy for awhile. I'm buying a couple big bouncy balls, hula hoops and maybe a kite or two for some of the older kids or the young adults at heart. If its warm enough we'll probably invest in some water guns too.
I'm also making cutouts of cupcakes from extra scrapbooking paper that I have. I'm hoping that it can keep some of our adult friends busy and everyone can write down a birthday wish for Sully that I can put into his ongoing scrapbook I've been working on.
And lastly, I just got Sully's birthday invites the other night from Shutterfly. ( They have super fast delivery!) I got 25 personalized cards with Sully's picture for only $21 bucks! They let you stack coupon deals - always a plus. It was my first time ordering but I'm pretty happy with the quality of the product they make. I'm really excited to send them out this weekend. I've put mailing them on hold because we've been in the process of getting a very special letter request to go with the cards. In lieu of any kind of gift , we're asking for all of our friends and family to make a donation to a heart trust we're currently in the process of setting up for my dear friends son. He's not due til July, but the doctors discovered he has some serious complications to his heart that will require multiple surgeries. We want to help so we decided to take the opportunity of raising money at Sully's birthday. Once we have the account set up, I'll be posting the information with the letter on here, so be sure to check back!
OOoooooOOOO the excitement!
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