If you haven't read my past blogs, then you might not know that Liam is our miracle baby. Of course every baby is a miracle, but God truly gave him to us as a sign of His promise. We tried for 3 years for him and after 2 years and 2 miscarriages later, I got a diagnoses of fertility issues (won't go into details, but its in a past blog) and I should not have gotten pregnant on my own. I was about to start fertility treatments and then in November 2011 prayed for healing and a month later God blessed us with Liam. So he is truly special in his own way and not a day goes by that I don't thank God for him. I am still amazed when I look at him and think of how long we waited for him and he's here. And now he's 1!! I can't believe a year has come and gone. My littlest man has turned one. It has been such a FUN year with him. Watching his little personality develop and, let me tell you, he has quite the personality! He loves to laugh and make others laugh. He literally will do something over and over if he sees you're laughing at him. He has a bit of a temper too, but I'm trying hard to get that under control. As much as you can with a 1 year old. "Be nice... don't hit... BE NICE!!" haha! In one ear and out the other. But its gotta be sinking in there somewhere! He is also SO curious and busy! And the thrill-seeker his older brother never was. They said the first child is born into an adult world and second child is born into a child's world. It is so true! In short, he's making up for what Christian didn't do. Haha! We love it and we love him!
So about a week ago we had his first birthday party. We did a sock monkey theme because he truly is our little monkey! Crazy and curious! So I wanted to share my party pictures with you.
But first! A couple of things to note...
I made the bunting for his high chair myself. It was super easy (thanks to a friend, Alanna (Toronto Mama) who pointed that out!) Just bought some scrap book paper and ribbon at Michael's. $2.50 folks! Easy-peasy! I don't think I need to do a DIY on that. Right?? haha..
Also the Hershey bar wrappers I made myself as well. What I did for that was look up the dimensions of a Hershey bar wrapper and I found this website: www.candywrapperstore.com and they had a template there for the 1.55 oz Hershey bar. I printed it out, measured it and went to my favorite site PicMonkey and designed my own wrapper. It took like 20 minutes and I printed them out, cut them out, and wrapped my candy bars. Done!
Our smash cake was done by my brother Josue and his wife Linda. They're so awesome at making cakes and I knew they would come up with something cute and good! So I gave them an idea of what I wanted and they ran with it. I absolutely loved the finished product!
I made the cupcakes myself, but that was a live & learn experience. They were just ok for me. I should definitely do a trial run next time. Especially for the piping of the icing. I wanted the perfect moutain of icing and it looked like a wiggly worm, haha! I needed a bigger tip for it. So I just ended up spreading the icing on with a knife. Oh well. Like I said live & learn! The monkey cupcake sticks I also made myself. I bought stickers and cut out each and every circle. 48 of them. My advice, spend the money for the sticks. That was no fun. The money for that is worth it.
Now this one you guys are going to think I'm crazy for doing... My cupcake stand. Its 3 cardboard cake circles. I bought 3 different sizes for like $1.50 each or something like that. And then I took 2 cans of food and wrapped them in papaer and hot glued them to the cake rounds. Voila, cupcake stand! It was super sturdy too! haha! Ghetto? Maybe. Smart? Definitely!
One last thing that everyone was raving about, my "chalkboard" of Liam facts! I absolutely loved it. I did not make it myself though. My friend Kayla has her own etsy shop and she designed it for me! Please go over to her site and check out her stuff. Alabama Angle Designs. Custom made invites, chalkboards, you name it! I just emailed her all of Liam's info and she designed what you see. I LOVED IT!! You would think that I was getting paid to sponsor all these websites, haha! Just wanted to point out that you can have a fabulous party for cheap.
And now without further ado, here are the party pics!
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