Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend! We had a busy Saturday running around and relaxed on Sunday.It was one of those lazy Sunday afternoons...Penelope was sleeping, Drew was working in the yard, while I was drinking coffee and drooling over kitchens on Pinterest. I love those kind of afternoons, all is right in the world!
While I was relaxing, I came across pictures from Penelope's first birthday. Yes, it was months ago and yes, I am just now thinking about putting them up in frames. GAH! Better late than never!
Her party was a crazy amount of work, probably because we threw her two parties and made everything from scratch. And when I say everything, I mean everything. I am still recovering which is probably why I'm just now getting around to posting pictures.
The party was a huge success and the pictures, ohmyword, the pictures! Amazing!
My very talented sister in law took all the photos and did such an amazing job, my heart almost burst looking at all of them. #cutenessoverload
If you're looking for a photographer in the Southern California area, you must check her out at Firefly Studio. She's a doll and a great photographer to boot!
So, we threw 2 parties for a couple of reasons. There are 12 of us in our baby playgroup and that many babies plus families would have just been too much so Penelope and her bestie Nora had a party with our playgroup on Saturday then Penelope had a party with just family on Sunday. It actually worked out really well because we just kept everything up throughout the weekend and got to celebrate twice!
I'll start with pictures of the girls on their bestie party day.
First things first, the invitations. We went with a gold, pink, and glitter theme with "She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes" as our title. Very girlie and very over the top but oh so much fun!
OHMYHECK!
Have you every seen anything so cute?!?
The cakes we made from scratch...I'm in love with the way they turned out! The banners with the girl's names were also made by us...I told you, everything!
We had this little frame with pictures of the girls from their first year...so many precious memories!
#heartmelting
We didn't get all of the babies in one shot as they were all over the place...literally but here's a picture of the party table. Handmade banner and all the goodies. Yum!
I'd say they took pretty good care of those cakes!
We made the name banners over their highchairs as well as the burlap "1" banners that went around the highchairs.
And of course, every girl needs two party outfits! After the cake debacle, we needed a change of clothes so we switched them into these outfits. Pants and onesies from Hobby Lobby, cupcake and headbands created by us!
{I should mention that Nora's mom is basically supermom and is the craftiest, most creative person ever, which made party planning with her oh so easy!}
Here are a few photos of some of the treats we made as well as paper garland that was hanging everywhere! We made the cupcake toppers as well, super easy to do! WHEW! I'm tired just looking at all these photos! It was such a special day and all of our hard work paid off in a big way seeing those sweet girls enjoy their special day!
I'll be back soon with Part 2 and include some tutorials for all of the goodies we made!
