Scenes from Lily's Birthday Party

Its hard to believe that it has been a week and a half since her party, but here are a few shots of the big event....

Our "theme" was pink and polka dots...

...the cupcakes with the marshmallow fluff frosting....yummy but sticky!

...I also made some cake pops which turned out yummy.  The story behind them is a long one for another day... Also, imagine a beautiful platter of chocolate covered strawberries.  I made them and then completely forgot to put it out for the party! Oh well...

My parents were gracious and opened their home for the party which allowed us to invite our family and close friends who have helped us with Lily and really poured into her life over this past year.

On the mantle, we put some framed photos of Lily that we love and then also hung up some other snapshots from her first year.  It is just amazing how much she has changed in one year!

On the windows we had a "timeline" of Lily over the past year, with one photo from each of her monthly photo shoots under a fun little pennant that I made...the lighting in this photo above makes it difficult to see the photos and pennant, but it gives a good idea of what it looked like...

...a better glimpse of the pennant...

...we served yummy punch and ice water for drinks...which helped to keep things pretty simple...

...a glimpse of the birthday girl and her grandpa before the party started.  He was put in charge of supervision while I ran around finishing up everything...

...during the party, we had a special dedication ceremony for Lily.  Tom, who is our dear friend and a pastor at our church provided a beautiful little service and ceremony right there in my parent's family room.  It was lovely and very special to have so many loved friends and family present for the service.

...after the ceremony, we opened gifts.  Lily is not really into opening presents yet, she helps a little bit, but she loves to play with what is inside of them and sometimes with the paper that they are wrapped in.  It was a lot of fun to see her joy during this experience...

...Then it was time for cake! Lily was stripped down to her diaper for the big event.  We all sang "Happy Birthday" and then she was given her own cake.  At first she did not really know what to do.  As I mentioned earlier, the pink frosting was made with a Marshmallow Fluff base which had kind of gotten hard in the fridge.  So at first she kind of had a difficult time breaking into her cake.  Looking back, I would have made just a plain old butter cream frosting, but as you can see, she managed to tough things out and eat her cake like a pro!  It was a really fun party and a huge thanks to my pal, Jenny for helping with the photo documentation!  Happy Birthday, Lily! We love you!
xo