Lauren's First Birthday Party part 3 of 3

All the goodies!  If you want to see my inspiration board you can click here.  I couldn't get everything I was dreaming of done on time with a limited budget but here is what I was able to pull off....

First things first, the theme.  Real talk. I've been planning this party for a year.  I picked this theme to coordinate with the pettiskirt Santa found for Lauren on Zulily last Christmas.

 

Amy Durham at Morgan James Photography took Lauren's pictures.  She's done lots for us, including the maternity pics.  Michelle Lowe at Exclusive Creations created the bright and beautiful cards.  Two of my favorite people to work with, very talented!  On a side note, Amy and I went to Dry Creek together and Michelle and I went to Clark!  

All of the party day photos are the artwork of Alice Addington.    Everything turned out so bright and beautiful.  ** Alice and I were the best of friends in elementary school.  :)

Every little girl needs a pink car.  Lauren loves her Cozy Coupe!  Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!

The outfit!  Kelley Menzes (my niece's Kindergarten Teacher)- Obnoxiously Cute made the shirt.  She also made a cute bow that Lauren didn't want to wear.  The custom skirt I found on etsy.  Unfortunately it looks like the shop isn't open any longer: Bella Creations if you want to try.  I just wanted something a bit different.  I absolutely love this skirt.  She's already worn it again.  The shoes (not pictured here) are from Old Navy.

My outfit (I have to brag): The jeans and the pink flats were from my closet.  The flowers on the necklace were recycled from Lauren's first birthday photo shoot (see above).  And she was none too happy about me borrowing her flower clips.  The tank top I found at Old Navy for $2.18 (lipstick stain meet OxyClean!).  Hair by David Carona.

Now the decorations:

Cute and simple gift bags from brown paper bags.  Scalloped by Martha Stewart

 Pink Manzanita branches with pictures of Lauren.  I love the Manzanitas.  I'm painting them to use every season!  Find them here at Blooms and Branches.  I should have trusted my instincts and bought a sturdier base for the trees.  Lesson learned.

 Pink Velvet Cupcakes by DADDY.  Except I helped with the icing and totally messed it up!  Kevin saved it and I went about my business.

 Smash Cake by Daddy of course.    I made the monogrammed sun cupcake toppers  and the smash cake "L" with the Silhouette.

 

Favors: I went back and forth and around again about favors.  I finally settled on Sunshine Wands (more on that in a minute).  I figured that the boys wouldn't want wands so I put together gift bags for the boys...Mistake.  The boys all wanted a wand.  They are so cute and easy to make if I had known that I would have made enough for the boys!  The Ribbon Wand Tutorial is at the Ribbon Wand Shop.  She uses real ribbon, I used the curling ribbon I already had for the balloons.  Everything else was the same.  Also, I found all of the supplies at OSH.

 The poem is a Lindsay Original:
Sunshine Wands

Take a wand and you will see

Just one wave will bring you glee

Wave it here and wave it there

Now you can spread some birthday cheer

Thank you for making my birthday bright

You are a sweet friend and that is right

 In the process of designing all of this stuff I was trying to figure out how to move my plain stuff to pretty on Publisher, with no patience.  I came across a post from Ink Spot Workshop and I didn't even read the entire thing before I was able to churn out these puppies.  CD Favors for the adults!

Then I was on a role and made food signs, the Sunshine Wand poem and these cute wishes.  Even the kids filled them out!  The notes were really sweet and I'm going to make her a little book with the pictures of her guests and their wishes.

But really I was most proud of my sign....

It's yours!  You can take it and print it.  Just don't do color correction if you have it printed at Costco, the pink turns brown.  If you want me to email it to you I will, or any of the other designs for that matter. 

 Most of the remaining decorations were pictures from around the house!

The food I kept simple and yummy.  BBQ Chicken Sandwiches, Coleslaw, Fruit Salad and Sun Chips.  It's not a party without the crock pot!

Thank you to everyone who helped us make Lauren's party so fantastic.  Especially my dad and my mom, my brother Robby and his girlfriend Destiny, my sisters Rachel and Katie, and my Costco partner Jonathon... and everyone else who pitched in to help. 

We have a VERY happy one year old!

XOXO