My Birthday Girl!!

Today my sweet little girl is ONE YEAR OLD!! This has been the fastest and most exciting year of my life. I never knew how much you could love someone... how much you could worry about someone... and how fast someone could change. I have learned more about myself and my husband in this one year than in my 27 years of life or 4 years of marriage.

We had her big birthday bash on Saturday. The cupcake theme went over great! My baking skills were put to the test and I think they passed. Minus the mishap on Friday night where the giant cupcake cake crumbled and I was up until 11 pm making a new one.... but we won't tell anyone about that. But other than that everything went smoothly!

How did the cake go? Well..... she cried. Haha! My always happy and smiley girl couldn't handle the 40 people singing at her. But she was adorable anyway. She loved the cupcake but her Daddy had to hold her and feed it to her.... he makes her feel safe :)

While we may be past many of the "firsts" we have lots more exciting things to experience with our sweet little girl!! It's a bittersweet time.... yes, I cried over this occasion.... but I am excited to see all that the future holds for us!!

So I hope you enjoy my week long celebration on Momma Drama! These fabulous companies have contributed to this amazing event in my life and I am so excited to share them with you!!!

Fun to Be One!

I can't even believe that my baby girl is turning one on Monday! We are having her birthday party on Saturday and I have been in pure party planning mode for months. So what do I have planned?

It's going to be a backyard party.... fingers crossed for good weather! We usually BBQ, but I really want to enjoy this party so we decided to have it catered.

It's going to be a cupcake theme and all in pink and purple. So I baked 54 cupcakes that will be displayed in cupcake stands and a GIANT cupcake that really has no function but pictures.... so I guess I'll eat it :) And I also made sugar cookies that I painted with frosting to have pink and purple tops. Then I wrote her name on some and then number one on others with icing pens.

I painted flower pots white with pink polka dots and a pink rim. Then on the rim I wrote "It's Fun to Be One." There will be purple flowers in these.

I made a slide show of pictures set to music. It covers all the major events of her first year and makes me cry every time I watch it! This was really fun to make and I mailed a copy to my grandparents who couldn't travel to the party.

The gift table will have her first birthday portrait along with the scrapbook that I made for her.

So this is the party in a nut shell. I will be sure to post pictures after the big event is over!

I'm so excited about this first birthday that I went ahead and made a special week long event with some fabulous sponsors! Starting on Monday I will be doing reviews and giveaways for fun party themed items! We have tutu's and birthday onesies and so much more! You won't want to miss this!!!

3 Months and Counting!

I have less than 3 months until my baby girl turns 1!! How and when did that happen???

Ok, so I certainly do not want to rush time. I am having way too much fun with my little bug. She is at an awesome age right now where she wants to play and snuggle with me... and she gives the best baby kisses!! And while is MUCH bigger than she was when she was born.. she is still my little peanut.

BUT.... I LOVE to plan parties. In another life I would totally be a wedding planner or something like that. And what better reason in there to throw a party than a baby's FIRST BIRTHDAY!! Let the planning begin!!

I am looking for ideas about what people have done or seen done to make this birthday awesome! Yes, I know she won't remember it. Yes, I know it's more for me and my husband. And yes, I am on a budget (lets not get too crazy....). But I want it to be cute and have fabulous little touches.

I'm thinking about having a cupcake theme. I want to make a GIANT cupcake shaped cake.. and then also have a cupcake tree. Any ideas to go along with this?

I also saw somewhere that hey had little rubber duckies that were pink and had the number 1 on them. Cute!


Ok, I'm open to any and every idea!!