1st Birthday Party!

After months and months of planning and lots of money spent, we finally celebrated Alex's 1st birthday. I put way too much time, money and effort into it but it was worth it all. Despite the heat we had lots of great family and friends come to the house to help celebrate and it seemed like everyone had a great time. 


We go lucky that his actual birthday landed on a Saturday so we could have the party on that day. I also planned the party for noon, the time he was born but it was actually a complete accident.


Some of the decorations I made:

All of the food was named with Mickey characters. My favorite was the Hot Diggity Dogs and Burgers.

Mickey heads with pictures from every month, including 12 months that we took first thing that morning.

The banner. It took way too long to cut all those hands out!

His smash cake from Cassie. The Mickey is a stuffed animal that I had embroidered with "Alex's 1st Birthday" so we can keep it forever.

The butt on the onesie I ordered. The front was really cute too and is in the  pictures below.

Here are the things Alex loved about his party:

All the new toys, like Rocky, the motorized rocking horse from Nana and Poppy.

And the new truck that looks like Poppy's.

He would have stayed in the truck all day if we would have let him.

Loved playing with all my friends!

The whole play group made it!

LOVED Mickey showing up. When he walked out of the house, Alex started waving and clapping. It was too cute.

Great group of kids at the party and there are 5 missing from this picture, 2 younger babies that had gone down for nap and 3 older kids that weren't big fans of Mickey.

Actually enjoyed opening the presents, unless it was clothes, he threw those and went looking for toys.

Liked all the new presents, especially the ones that make lots of noise.

Things Alex really didn't like about his party:

The only thing he didn't like was the cake. He acted like it tasted horrible. I tasted it and it was delicious so he is just a weird child. We tried again at his 1 year pics and he still hated it.

Didn't like having the icing all over him but enjoyed playing in the sink while mommy was cleaning him off.