Brooklyn's 1st Birthday Party

On Saturday May 16th we celebrated Brooklyn's 1st Birthday by throwing her a Birthday Party! Although her actual birthday is May 21st we decided to have her party the weekend before her birthday due to Memorial Day weekend falling the weekend of her actual birthday! I did a Cupcake themed party, and had lots of fun planning her party around that theme! She was so cute, and really seemed to enjoy all the attention she was getting as well as all of the nice presents that she received from all of our friends and family! We had fun activities for both adults and kids. I had a polaroid guest book, where the guests took pictures of themselves with a polaroid camera and then wrote a special note to Brooklyn (thanks to Fielding for the camera and Suyzel for making the guest book) I thought it would be a great keepsake for Brooklyn to have on her 18th birthday! We had the adults play a guessing game, I put pictures on the wall of some of the major milestones in Brooklyn's life ranging from the day we brought her home from the hospital to when she started crawling and walking, the guests had to guess the correct age of Brooklyn for each milestone and the person with the most correct guesses won! Jamie Moreland ended up winning the game, she had 5 correct guesses....she really had her mommy radar on!!! For the kiddos we played Pin the Candle on the cupcake! The children were blind folded and the child who got the candle pinned closest to the"1" on the cupcake won a prize, our nephew Robert ended up wining that game! And lastly we had a cupcake pull string pinata for the kids which was filled with tattoos, gum, candee and biter biscuits for the younger ones like TJ & Brooklyn! We served a delicious Giant cupcake filled with rasberry bavarian cream and ice cream! Brooklyn got her own "smash" cake and it was a good thing, because she demolished that thing! I couldn't get it to her fast enough, she kept trying to pull if off the table once I sat her in her chair! She had a great 1st birthday celebration, and we look forward to celebrating many more with our little cupcake!