So to celebrate Sophie's first birthday, I planned an party based on the Disney movie 'UP'. I tried to keep it really simple. As she's unlikely to remember this in future years; why set the bar high now? We'll save that for next year! To introduce the theme and invite our guests, I wrote this little poem:
Come on UP and over on Saturday
To celebrate Sophie's 'UP'coming special day!
She's moving UP in the world! She's turning one!
Come to her party. It's bound to be fun!
Get in your car, drive UP or drive down,
Stay just for the day or spend the night here in town.
Come hang out with us and fill UP your tummy,
With brunch and with cake. It's bound to be yummy!
Bring UP a gift if you wish, for the dear little miss,
But know all she wants is a hug and a kiss.
Show UP, pick her UP and with her play,
And you can help make this a really nice day!
She's growing UP so very fast!
Come get in a cuddle, while they still last!!
As it was a first birthday, we kept the invitees to family members. My family drove down from Edmonton and Matt's came up from the south (South Calgary, Cardston and Fort Macleod) It was great to see them all! We had a nice brunch and opened presents. Lastly, we had cake! Mostly we just visited. It was a great weekend and I am glad so many of our family were able to come. We missed my brother in law, Matt and the Hill family but will hopefully see them in the summer.
Here are some pictures from Sophie's special day:
The cake! This was one of the parts I was most nervous about. I haven't made a cake in years and have never made cake pops. I usually opt for cupcakes as they are cute and, I feel, much easier to decorate. But I bit the bullet and I decorated my first birthday cake. It was chocolate fudge cake with chocolate almond ganache filling. It is decorated in blue buttercream and fondant cut outs (that I made myself, from scratch!!). The cake pops are devils food cake with fondant (they are supposed to look like balloons). It was my first time ever making or working with fondant and I am really pleased with how it turned out!
The decorations: As I previously stated, I tried to keep it simple, and decorations is one of the areas I achieved this. We had a couple rainbow balloon garlands throughout the house but other than that not much.
Both of these ideas I got from Pinterest. The saying on the left was a gift I made for Sophie a 'one year late' birth announcement. The house, I made on the computer and printed it out. I painted the frame and all the guests left their finger prints as balloons so we could remember all the loved ones who were here to celebrate Sophie's special day. Both frames will be displayed in Sophie's room.
The food! We had a yummy brunch with muffins, cinnamon buns, orange rolls, fruit and the most amazing dips ever made (thank you Pinterest!), a yogurt parfait bar and strawberry lemonade. It was all so scrumptious!
After we were all stuffed, Sophie got to open her presents.
She loves books! She got the one above from us and the one below from my Grandma Lee. As you can see from her expression, she really liked that one!
An adorable coat from Grandma Beazer.
(And a pretty adorable baby too!)
Sophie got this doll from her aunt, Hannah.
She gave it a kiss as soon as she opened it!
The birthday girl going for a ride in her new pink wagon
with her sister Rory and cousin Bentley.
Singing happy birthday.
Lunging for a cake pop.
Yum!
There's a bit of a story here. Matt was worried Sophie was going to hurt herself with the stick so once she had taken the cake off, he took it away. Well lets just say that didn't go over well. Matt hastily put the cake back on the stick and gave it back but the damage was done.
Look at those eyes! My heart breaks!
And so did everyone else's.
The next thing you knew, Sophie's got a new, blue cake pop.
Victory!!
Sophie needed a bath after this!
It was a wonderful party and a really great day! I love you, Sophie! Happy Birthday baby girl!!
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