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Jude’s Zoo Party

September 17, 2014 by Aliesha

We had such a wonderful time at Jude’s first birthday party at the zoo!  Here are a bunch of pictures from our day!

He loved this monkey from Pops and MiMi.

 I made chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter filling and peanut butter frosting.

MiMi made these fun favors (peanuts in their shells).

Family pictures…

Remember this bunting banner?  I used it at Vera’s first birthday party, as well as our “county fair night” last year at the beach!

As usual, we had lots of great food!  Pulled pork, salad, slaw, chips, fruit, baked beans, watermelon, pickles, and more.

 

I’ve already shared the smash cake pictures.

Jude was pretty excited about opening presents!  Of course he had lots of help!

It was raining for much of the afternoon, but it did clear up when we started to go see the animals.

 Feeding the giraffes is always fun!

 But goats are, apparently, hilarious!

If we hadn’t seen this goat standing on top of a sheep, we probably wouldn’t have believed it.

It was too funny!

We got to see the penguins being fed!  They waited so patiently!

One of the highlights of Vera’s day was getting to splash in all the mud puddles!

What a blessing to be able to celebrate our sweet Jude’s first birthday at the zoo!

Filed Under: birthdays, Cordelia, family, Jude, milestones, travels, Vera

Smash Cake

September 16, 2014 by Aliesha

On Saturday we celebrated Jude’s first birthday with a zoo party!  I have tons of pictures to share, but I thought pictures of Jude eating his smash cake deserved a whole post!

As you can see, Jude had one thing on his mind!

He went to town on that cupcake!

 We realized soon that he was making a big mess and needed to be back in his high chair!

He was so fast he almost ate the wrapper too!

I’ve never seen a one-year-old eat a cupcake so fast!

“You guys, this is the best thing I have ever tasted!”

“This is the best birthday ever!”

More pictures to come soon from the rest of his zoo birthday party!

Filed Under: birthdays, Jude, milestones, parties

Vera’s Pink and Gold Tea Party: Part 2

August 26, 2014 by Aliesha

As promised yesterday, here are the rest of the details from Vera’s pink and gold tea party!

I’ve been wanting to make a ruffled cake for a long time, and this party was the perfect excuse!  The cake was homemade chocolate and the frosting was buttercream.

I used some pieces from my collection (the tea cups on the left and all the tea pots) as well as some thrifted tea cups and saucers so that everyone could drink their beverage of choice from a pretty cup!

The gold edged tea cups were perfect (and only cost $.45 each!).

I served vanilla sugar for people to stir into their tea and coffee!

I also made petit fours, and they turned out pretty well.

The peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were popular with the kids!

We had veggies and fruit too (brought by MiMi and Grammy), so there were healthy choices in addition to all the sweets.

Here was the party menu:
-marinated ham biscuits
-croissants with chicken salad (chicken, Greek yogurt, green onions, salt & pepper)
-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
-cucumber sandwiches
-veggies
-fruit/dip
-vanilla scones
-petit fours
-tea pot sugar cookies
-chocolate cake with pink buttercream frosting
-tea/coffee/iced tea/sparkling pink lemonade

I decorated the breakfast nook a little bit too.

I made crepe paper flowers and was happy that they turned out so well!  The looked almost real!

For favors, we gave little boxes of fancy chocolates/caramels.

Didn’t my mom do a lovely job with the tea pot cookies?  They were delicious too!

I hope Vera cherishes many sweet memories from her tea party!

Filed Under: birthdays, parties

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