Gracie's 1st Birthday Bash

I made Gracie's invitaion, it is much cuter in person.

My parents came in on Thursday and Friday to help with Gracie’s party. It was a busy couple of days but we got it all done. Saturday night we hung all the decorations. When I came down stairs Sunday morning Gracie was sitting in the dinning room and she pointed to the flowers hanging from the ceiling, she seemed too love them.

Gracie’s Birthday was a blast. It was a color them of pink, aqua and purple with a candy bar full of the same colors. I am not really big into character parties and she does not really know any so I just did colors, I am sure this may change as she get older. With bouquets of chocolate covered pretzels, rock candy, candy apples, sugar cookies, m&m’s, chocolate covered marshmallows, jelly bellies, cake and much more. There were plenty of goodies to go around.

Sugar cookies cut into 1's, G's & S's, I hung
a ribbon of pictures from 1 month thru 12 months,
and all different items on the candy bar.

Gracie had just gotten up from her nape when some of the guest had arrived and I got her dressed and ready. To my surprise she did not move much at all. She pretty much sat there looking at everyone. It was a lot for her to take in. There were a handful of people she did go to comfortably but other wise she was pretty shy. And, if you know my Gracie she is usually very out going and will go to anyone, but not on her birthday. Besides that we had beautiful weather it was in the 70’s which was nice for Troy who was doing all the grilling which is where most of the guys seemed to congregate.

Gracie in her Birthday outfit. 

I made the tutu and her Auntie Kristen gave her the shirt.

Gracie had a smash cake which she seemed to poke at and picked of the little pink sprinkles. Everyone suggested putting her hand in it to show her what to do so I did. Nothing, she seemed a little disgusted at the idea. We finally fed her a little piece and she was good to go. Her face was covered in chocolate even though she did not really put much of a dent into the little cake I had made her.

Gift time was most interesting and embarrassing, well at least for me. Gracie did not seem to like all the people she just could not get over it. I was helping her open some of her gifts and at some point she crawled away and was completely uninterested leaving me to open her gifts for her which was so awkward. We tried to get her back but she had found some she liked to holder her instead so she could watch. Oh, well it was her first and she did not understand completely what was going on.

The Proud Parents

Once everyone left she was all over the peoples. She was putting them in the little doll house/bookshelf. She loves it! It is so funny to watch her play with her toys and get so excited about them. It is quit apparent that the little toys we had were pretty boring to her.

Chocolate Cake Face

Earlier this week I wanted to take some more pictures of Grace with just her in a diaper and a cake. She did pretty well, she seemed to go straight for the icing and cake but she was not as messy. She actually got some on her foot and she just kept holding it up in the air. She does not seem to like being dirty too much. She even tried to shake some of the icing off her hands at times but then went back to eating.

Over all it was a great party and I think everyone had a good time. Lucky for Gracie she gets to celebrate her birthday again at the end of the month when we go to Smith Center to see Troy’s parents. I would like to say cake is off limits for the next year but I do not think that will happen yet.

Gracie playing with her little book case

which we consider a little doll house

Party bags to fill with candy to go

I will try and add all the pictures to

facebook here in the next couple of days.