Parker's 1st Birthday Pictures - Before Guest Arrived

Here are a ton of pictures before the guest arrived. I will be posting more! Sorry again for the overload of pictures;)

Front of our house! I have always wanted to buy a "1" balloon

Every guest had a picture up!

Food set up!

Smash Cake!

Dreamcakes!

Monster Marshmallows!

Halloween Bark - By Aunt Casey!

Mummy Hotdogs!

Spinach Dip in Pumpkin Bread Bowl!

Sausage Balls!

Ham and biscuits - By Bob Woods!

Mini Fruit Kabobs

Witches Brew (Adults ONLY) and Orange Kool-Aid!

Frozen Hand! Recipes from Phyllis Hoffman Magazine!!

Made labels by using packing tape - "Our little pumpkin Parker is ONE!"

Yes, we had alcohol - Please don't judge;)

Carved pumpkins to hold ice and drinks!

Pottery Barn lanterns!

Backyard!

Plastic table cloths with skirts at Party City for like 1.99$ a piece! (They do not really look plastic)

Borrowed the Bailey's Bouncy House!

Favor Tags!

Favors - From Old Time Pottery

Pumpkin slinky, bubbles, ring pop, straw, stickers, sucker, tattoo and popcorn ball

Invitation - From 2911creations.blogspot.com

LOVE HER!! We made it together!!

(I took my address off - sorry bad editing)

- Look at older posts to see more pictures of our party set up!

Preparing for Parker's 1st Birthday Party!

Jamie arrived Thursday night at 11:15PM and we began making our "to-do-list" for the weekend! Friday, Aunt Molly and Khaki came and played with Parker while Jamie and I ran errands. Friday night the Bailey family came over for dinner and then Jenna, Jamie, Colt and I stayed up all night doing a little bit of everything! Saturday Aunt Casey arrived in town and came to the house with Pawpaw, Khaki, and Aunt Molly. They brought Parker and I gifts and took Parker to lunch while Jamie and I worked inside and Colt and a few guys worked outside. Then Pops, Mimi, Aunt Al, and Aunt Shelly arrived and then a few hours later Stephen (Jamie's husband) arrived! It was fun to have to have everyone here and yes I put them all right to work too;) We had a really good time working and spending time together! At Khaki and Pawpaw's house they were working just as hard making "Halloween Bark" and 70 "Mummy Hotdogs"! I think it is a tradition I would like to do every Halloween with or without a birthday party!!

I cannot thank everyone enough for helping make Parker's birthday SO special!!! Everyone worked really hard and I think we all slept really good Sunday night! I will be posting birthday party pictures soon!

Here is an overload of pictures!

Aunt Molly, Aunt Casey, Pawpaw, Khaki, Parker and Colt

Parker opening his gift from Aunt Casey

F.A.O Schwartz!

Charlie Brown Halloween DVD!

Parker, Aunt Shelly and Aunt Al

Aunt Casey and Parker

Parker and Mimi

Sweet Jamie! (can you see the ghost "strawberries"?)

Pops preparing drinks!

Making Monster Marshmallows!

Jamie and Stephen

Directions on making Monster marshmallows

(or you can make them into whatever fits your theme)

Icing:

1 (1pound) box confectioners' sugar

5 table spoons meringue powder

1/2 cup water

food coloring

-Recipe is from Phyllis Hoffman Magazine

Mix all ingredients (minus food coloring) - Mix with electric mixer for 10 minutes

Put lollipop sticks in Marshmallows

In separate bowls - mix icing and food coloring

Dip Marshmallow and let sit for 5 minutes before you decorate

LOVE!!

Drying

It was a long fun night!

Blink Lady 11 Month Photo Shoot!

I can finally post Parker's Blink Lady pictures! I was waiting to post until after Parker's birthday party - so I didn't leak any of the birthday pictures. I will blog about Parker's party later, I have to sort the (over 500) pictures 1st;) I think we really love our boy!!

My Favorite Picture!!

Parker's Birthday/Halloween Outfit!

Family of Pumpkins!

Yummy Birthday Cake!

Love this one!