We had sweet little Conor's first birthday party last weekend. He woke up and was SO sick. His eyes were swollen shut and he looked and felt miserable. He insisted upon being held the whole party. He also fell asleep at his own party. Poor thing! Everyone else seemed to have fun though!
Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of the whole party set up with all of the food, but here is the backdrop with the big cake, smash cake and oreo balls. I ordered the snowman cake and smash cake from Publix, since the smash cake is free for first birthday's. I took a picture of what I wanted and they did a great job! It was also SO reasonable. The party was at 10am, so we had a lot of brunch food. My mom brought a breakfast casserole and some assorted specialty breads. We also had ham rolls, sausage balls, fruit, "snowballs" (aka white powdered donuts) and there were a couple of other treats on the table.
Snowman cake
Smash cake
I made these little snowman oreo balls and they were so easy and yummy!
I made this little snowman out of foam balls, cotton batting and buttons. I couldn't find a top hat, so he is a Nashville snowman with a sparkly cowboy hat :)
Cake plates and utensils
Since it was a morning party, we had mimosas and bloody mary's
Cocktail straws, which I had bought for Peyton's first birthday and forgot to use :)
There was snow on the trees outside
The entrance was a snowman made out of coffee filters and plates. It was actually pretty easy to make. I had planned to make more of the snow strings, which were fishing wire and marshmallows. I had seen a picture of an anthropologie store covered in them and it looked really cool. However, it was a sticky sticky mess and I only ended up making 8 of them. If you ever decide to make these, let the marshmallows sit out for a few days and get stale.
I took most of these pictures after the party, so I only had a couple of party favors left. They were melted snowman cookies.
I love making these for first birthday parties. Just love looking at how much he has grown.
Newborn, 1 month, 2 month
3 month, 4 month, 5 month
6 month, 7 month, 8 month
9 month, 10 month, 11 month, and 1 year
Snowman juice boxes and water
Since this was mostly an indoor party, I tried to come up with a few activities for the little ones. So this was a snowman building section. I made some play-dough and then gathered up a few other things I had around the house for building the snowman. There were googly eyes, sticks, ribbon and buttons.
I figured the boys wouldn't be very interested in playing with the play dough, but the girls had a blast.
Might be my favorite snowman of all!
We also had a snow station. I had planned to make the snow out of shaving cream and baking soda, but Michael found some really awesome snow on amazon that was super cheap and made a ton! My kids enjoyed it so much. We will definitely be ordering more for some more winter activities. It's messy, but tons of fun.
While the girls were building their snowmans, the boys were all huddled around Patrick's ipad quietly.
The quiet only lasted a couple of minutes, before they all went nuts with a snowball fight.
The boys decided it would be more fun on the trampoline
The birthday boy was happy for about 5 minutes of his party
His eye looked a lot worse in person than it looks in the pictures. You can kind of tell that his left eye is swollen here.
Grandads
This one looks a little mischievous to me
This was about how he felt the whole party, poor thing
And he fell fast asleep
We woke him up for the cake smashing, which did not go well
He cheered up for a little bit after the party
Our family pictures are sort of chaos these days...
My middle child loves to smile for the camera
We headed to the doctor after the party and poor thing was exhausted!! He also clearly needs a new car seat!
I had a lot of fun celebrating my third little baby's birthday party. Cannot believe he is already 1!! It went by so fast!
