Emily's 1st Birthday Bash

Welp, Emily's 1st birthday party is over. And it was fabulous. The weather was gorgeous, albeit insanely hot (as in food is melting, solids are liquifying hot), and it was so nice seeing friends & family gathered together to celebrate the 1st year of an amazing little girls life.

My MIL once again did an amazing job on the birthday attire front. All I told her was that I wanted a giraffe print & hot pink halter style outfit. She came up with this.

Absolutely adorbs, right?! {You may notice the orange polka dot shoes were a no show. It was just way too darn warm for her to be wearing socks & shoes. But don't worry, they won't go to waste. Dustin's already pointed out that she's ready for Dolphins football season.}

Did I mention MIL also made big sister's dress as well? Equally adorbs.

Party decor. I took some help from Etsy & Big Dot of Happiness, but I did alot of it myself {with the help of party blog stalking & Hobby Lobby. Oh & summer shandy after the girls & hubs went to bed while I was downstairs crafting away.}

This was probably my favorite idea. I got a shamazing deal on these water bottle labels here.

"Make Your Drink Orange or Pink" with pink lemonade and tangerine mix in's.

Simple banner of construction paper chain links with wooden giraffe figures from Hobby Lobby hot glued on. And then a banner of her month by month pictures. 6 pieces of giraffe print scrapbook paper, whole punched in each corner with a long piece of ribbon lined through.

Food wise, we kept it pretty simple. {See the strawberry milkshake whoppers & orange slice candy? Melting...yeah...}

Sub platters from Subway, fruit kabobs, veggie pizza, and chips.

Sweet tea & water. {Iced sugar cookies? Melting.}

Side walk chalk, bubbles, and giraffe masks for the kiddos.

That highchair was mine when I was a baby. I had my first piece of birthday cake in it too =)

Presents! And our official party guest greeter. Brookie fondly named him Big Guy.

Flowers from Hobby Lobby. 4 bunches on sale for 69 cents a bunch. And my most favoritest picture of her ever & maternity/newborn session photo album for everyone to reminisce.

Party favors. I got the bags here and filled them with iced animal cookies from the Dollar Tree. 3 bags filled 28 bags.

The kiddos!

Fun with the bubble machine.

Time for presents! This was the only picture I got of the girls together. {Heck, I didn't even eat a bite of anything until well after the party was over. Who has time to eat when pictures need taken, people!}

The cake! Cake lady Emily did a FANTASTIC job putting together my thoughts & rambles and turning them into this. Dontcha love the giraffe "1" on her smash cake? Gah, too cute!

Lemme tell you...this girl loves her some cake. She was not shy about diggin in.

{Party hat & highchair banner from here. And personalized bow bib from here.}

So there you have it. I can't believe her party is done. That her birthday is tomorrow. That my baby is going to be ONE.

We've got her 1 year check up at the pedi's office this morning. I'm anxious to see how much this chunkaroo has grown. =)