My little ladybugs first birthday party!

Bailey's birthday party went great! I had spent many nights laying in my bed thinking about how exactly I wanted the party to go and what I wanted and I think everything lived up to that. I even managed to squeeze 2o people into our not so big house..ha! I think sugar bear had a good time although she was quite serious at the party. I don't know if it was all the loud noise or her nap wasn't long enough but she wasn't giving anyone too many smiles. Anyway, I am about to overload you with pictures here but hey I need them in my blog book and I learned the hard way that it takes forever to go back and add them later. If you would like to see all of the pics then you can go here http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8IbuGrZyycMQS . There are so many good ones that I had a hard time narrowing it down so check them out.

Like I said I really had put some serious thought into this party so I will share you a few pics of the decorations so if you weren't here you can see it and I can remember it. More of the action pics down below.

Cake table - I cute holes in a red table cloth so that the table would be spotted! :)

I thought this pull string pinata was so cool. It is intended for younger kids and since Bailey loves strings I thought it would perfect. More on the failure of this "great in theory but not so great once you actually use it" in a minute.

Since most of Bailey's guest were adults I thought that the would need a little game themselves. So, I had this board with pictures from each month of Bailey's first year. You had to see if you could figure out how many months she was in each picture. My dad claimed it was too hard but Shelli and my sisters Karen and Melody took away the prize with only missing 4. I guess I can see who keeps up with their blog reading! HA!

Of course I have always loved (and been miserable at) guessing how many whatevers are in a jar. The winner of this was my niece Hanna.

Bailey's high chair and balloons!

Bailey's ladybug cupcake cake

Ok Ok now enough braggin on my decorations now onto the fun pics....

Kels and the bug

Kels, Bear, and Hope

Sweet bear

Crawling bear

Give me the camera!

Bear got lots of wonderful gifts. I am not sure she really grasps the concept of gift opening even after Christmas and her birthday. Of course she had many little helpers ie. cousins "helping" her.

The fam

Cake time

Hmmm....whats that?

GROSS!!! Bear was not a fan of the cake and did not want it on her or to eat it. She obviously doesn't take after her mama.

She did have fun getting the icing everywhere!

Pinata time!

Bears friend Kai trying out the pinata

So, allegedly the pinata is suppose to fall whenever a person pulls the correct string. So, all the big kids somewhat took turns pulling all the strings and when the last one was pulled...NOTHING! HA!

So, we gave the oldest kid a hammer and had to resort to the old fashioned way! That did the trick!

The evening ended with a special treat for the bear! Fireworks!

It was a perfect ending to a great party! Thanks to all of you that came! Maybe for her second birthday I can let her daddy plan the party and do all the work! HA!