My Baby is 1!!

I can hardly believe it's true: my baby is one!  It must be so though, because he is starting to walk more than crawl, and he is absolutely into everything!! He is still mostly sweet, but we have definitely seen a temper from this little guy!  He "talks" all the time although we don't really know what he is saying he definitely gets his point across and we figure he will start talking in complete sentences when he does! :) We love the added entertainment this little boy adds to our family and we can't wait to watch as he grows! Happy Birthday Sammy Boy!

The cake table and all the goodies!

These were popcorn cupcakes! So cute and really easy... Just cut marshmallows on top and then sprayed with yellow frosting spray!

Sammy's cake!

The Circus tent cake... It was actually a lot harder than I thought it was going to be... I tried to cover the whole thing in one piece the first time... That didn't work (the fondant ripped and made a mess) so I had to do it in two pieces... The top of the tent and the bottom of the tent as separate pieces! Not fun reeeeeaaaalllly early in the morning!! :) But it worked out in the end.  Not my favorite, but still cute!

Lots of Lollipops!

Cotton candy, clown noses, and Peter Spier's Circus! book (it's got great illustrations!)

Animal crackers, (of course) paper straws, and mustaches!

Bubbles, bubble gum, and Jelly Belly's!

Posing with kissy lips and handlebar mustache!

Everyone had fun in the "photo booth!!"

A couple of cuties anxious for the party to start!

I told Chloe she was going to hate this picture when she gets older and she asked me what hate means!! ;)

Nicole and Heather having fun!

Some of the kids!

Adults clownin' around!

Mika!

Andrew!

Mika again!

Me and the birthday boy!!

Elizabeth!

The props!

The games... I didn't formally organize the games (this crowd is pretty young so that seemed like a lot of work!!) but the games were there if they wanted to play them!

Kid table!

Sweet Juliet!

Playing around!

The bounce house is always fun with the 5 and under crowd!

Time for cake!

Sammy had NO problem digging in!!

This is good stuff!

Face first!!

Makin' a mess!

All done!!

Getting the glazed over look!

Too much Birthday!

Sooo tired!! But such a fun day!!

Getting Ready for Sammy's 1st Birthday Party!

I have been wanting to do a Circus/Carnival party for a long time now, and since the 1 year old doesn't have opinions about what kind of party he wants, I was excited to choose for him!! I love Costco's photo cards and decided to use those for the invitations, but first I had to get a picture of the birthday boy!

Trying to get a picture of Sammy with a clown nose... Not an easy task

And was one that I quickly gave up! This was as close as I got!

I thought maybe we could distract him with the huge lollipop long enough to get one of him with the wig on... Nope! He's quite talented in ripping things off his head or nose all while still sucking on a lollipop!

Sweet Elijah though has moved onto the stage of loving to have his picture taken and wanting to wear the funny stuff and then looking at his funny pictures!!

Once I put away all the props he did just fine!!

What a sweet little one year old!

I had planned on having him wear a little top hat, but it got lost in the mail and I was already getting the invitations out late enough as it was! No matter, he's still the cutest little guy around!

On to the cake baking... I had seen a bunch of cool rainbow/colorful cakes that everyone is making on the web and decided that would be fun for the party... I just used regular boxed cake mix and dyed equal portions of the mix

My colors were red, yellow, green, blue, pink, and purple...

Then I just added the mix in somewhat equal portions into the pans...

They looked pretty psychedelic baking in the oven!! 

And I do believe they made the prettiest dirty dishes I've seen!

The actual party will come soon!