One word- PERFECT! I had the best time! And I know Jaidan wont remember it, but that’s okay because there WILL BE PICTURES! My friend’s mom is starting out her photography business and took lots of pictures for us!
The decorations all turned out great. His theme was shapes and colors. We did circles and squares and then blue green red and yellow. My favorite part was the cake/cupcake table & my 12 month banner I made. (I don’t think most people saw the banner though because it was outside on the tables.) Ooh and I also loved the balloon arch me and Megan put together! That is where everyone entered into the backyard. We also had a huge 42X42 sign with a picture of Jaidan on it at the entrance too.
We had fajitas (They were great, Jared!), rice & guacamole (Thanks to the FIL), chips and salsa (Thanks to my mom), along with the best fruit tray from Parks Produce. My sister’s boyfriends family owns it and his mom is the one who makes them. It was huge, fresh, and very pretty for $40… and it came with fruit dip. I will forever be getting my fruit trays from there! To drink we had bottles of water with ‘Happy 1st Birthday Jaidan’ labels.
After everyone ate we played Jaidan’s 1st Year Slideshow that I spent hours making in imovie! I looked at it so many times by the time we watched it at the party I was hoping it had turned out well. Hope you enjoy it. 🙂
Then we sang 3 of Jaidan’s favorite songs. ‘If you’re happy and you know it’. ‘The itsy bitsy spider’. ‘Jesus loves me.’
Then we did cake. I made him an angel food cake with this dream whip icing used with my milk. Don’t worry- the guests got the bakery cupcakes from lemon sisters in Cleburne. Oh those were soo good too! We had vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and lemon flavored. I ate the strawberry one!! Okay back to Jaidan. He was kinda not wanting to sit in his chair with everything going on but once we started singing Happy Birthday he cheered up a little. He stuck his hand in his cake and made a face to wipe it off, then he was eating the little pieces of strawberries around the edges. lol. My friend, Ashley tried to give him a spoonful of the frosting but he was not very interested.
Jared helped him open all of his presents. He is definitely set for the year! He got lots of toys and clothes! PawPaw & Dorrie got him a Harley Davidson onesie & a wagon! It has a canopy and will be great to take to the zoo! Nana and Pops got him a dump truck and started him a savings account. Well we are looking into something that gives higher interest, but it’s like a savings account. Jared’s mom & stepdad got him a Kawasaki ride-on, a lego bulldozer ride on, and his 1st laptop. My dad got him a pull along puppy, ABC blocks and a Texas Rangers outfit!!
We now know for next time that 100 balloons is too many! We will do about half that next time! They came 25 to a pkg and we had 4 colors so we just went with it. 🙂 haha
We let him do a balloon sendoff with some of the leftovers. He watched them until they were completely out of site! Then he stood up and took 2 steps! Soo cute!
Ill post when his pictures are ready!
The decorations all turned out great. His theme was shapes and colors. We did circles and squares and then blue green red and yellow. My favorite part was the cake/cupcake table & my 12 month banner I made. (I don’t think most people saw the banner though because it was outside on the tables.) Ooh and I also loved the balloon arch me and Megan put together! That is where everyone entered into the backyard. We also had a huge 42X42 sign with a picture of Jaidan on it at the entrance too.
We had fajitas (They were great, Jared!), rice & guacamole (Thanks to the FIL), chips and salsa (Thanks to my mom), along with the best fruit tray from Parks Produce. My sister’s boyfriends family owns it and his mom is the one who makes them. It was huge, fresh, and very pretty for $40… and it came with fruit dip. I will forever be getting my fruit trays from there! To drink we had bottles of water with ‘Happy 1st Birthday Jaidan’ labels.
After everyone ate we played Jaidan’s 1st Year Slideshow that I spent hours making in imovie! I looked at it so many times by the time we watched it at the party I was hoping it had turned out well. Hope you enjoy it. 🙂
Then we sang 3 of Jaidan’s favorite songs. ‘If you’re happy and you know it’. ‘The itsy bitsy spider’. ‘Jesus loves me.’
Then we did cake. I made him an angel food cake with this dream whip icing used with my milk. Don’t worry- the guests got the bakery cupcakes from lemon sisters in Cleburne. Oh those were soo good too! We had vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and lemon flavored. I ate the strawberry one!! Okay back to Jaidan. He was kinda not wanting to sit in his chair with everything going on but once we started singing Happy Birthday he cheered up a little. He stuck his hand in his cake and made a face to wipe it off, then he was eating the little pieces of strawberries around the edges. lol. My friend, Ashley tried to give him a spoonful of the frosting but he was not very interested.
Jared helped him open all of his presents. He is definitely set for the year! He got lots of toys and clothes! PawPaw & Dorrie got him a Harley Davidson onesie & a wagon! It has a canopy and will be great to take to the zoo! Nana and Pops got him a dump truck and started him a savings account. Well we are looking into something that gives higher interest, but it’s like a savings account. Jared’s mom & stepdad got him a Kawasaki ride-on, a lego bulldozer ride on, and his 1st laptop. My dad got him a pull along puppy, ABC blocks and a Texas Rangers outfit!!
We now know for next time that 100 balloons is too many! We will do about half that next time! They came 25 to a pkg and we had 4 colors so we just went with it. 🙂 haha
We let him do a balloon sendoff with some of the leftovers. He watched them until they were completely out of site! Then he stood up and took 2 steps! Soo cute!
Ill post when his pictures are ready!
