{airplane} party

When I got home from our Christmas vacation, I decided to start working on my son's birthday decor. I wanted to be able to take my time & get my thoughts together for it. It's a good thing I started so early, since I had to take an unexpected trip home for my grandfather's funeral the week of my son's birthday.

Here it what I came up with..


I knew I wanted the banner on my mantel to be full of pictures, to see how my little tiny baby grew into my big one year old. It was so fun putting it together--and super easy. Jute, clothespins, scrapbook paper, and then of course pictures, is all you need for this banner.

How the airplane party came about, was from winning a giveaway from Mygrafico. I was able to chose a printable package, and with my son's first birthday coming up, it worked out perfectly. I chose the 'Flying High Party Printables Set'.

One thing that was so nice about using this set, was the huge of amount of prep-work that was taken off. All I had to do was print everything on cardstock, then cut it out. Made my life so much easier. :)

Okay, now for the fun part, the party decor..


Here's an overview of the table, I will break it down for you in pictures below. It turned out really great though. Whenever I put together a party, I forget how much time the little details take. I sound like I throw parties a lot, I really don't, but the ones I have done in the past have been pretty time consuming.


Oh the cakes! How I loved them, wish I could take credit for them, but a sweet friend of mine made them for the special day. She actually looked at the printables to make the cakes fit in, pretty amazing, right?!

I wrapped a tall glass jar with red yarn, then added 2 airplanes from the packet to it. It was a simple way to add a pop of color.


The candy tray consisted of wrapped chocolate bars, small goodie bags & chocolate dipped marshmallows--those are MUCH easier to make than cake pops, by the way. :) The white bags were the party favors for the kids with a few little trinkets in them.

I made the party hats as well. I found the tutorial for them here. I simply wrapped scrapbook paper around party hats purchased from the Dollar Store, & added a little pom pom to the top. There were also some printable hats from the packet as well. Such a cute way to make your own party hats!

I decided to dress up the party blowers too. They also came from the Dollar Store--I glued a circle piece of scrapbook paper with a '1' on it, to make it more unique for the party.

I saw a great tutorial to make your own coffee filter pom poms from this site. They are so simple to make & the best part about them, they are reusable!


The little banner was also from the printout packet


A few more pictures of the cakes, they were almost too cute to eat. :)



Here is the big feast of the night..


The Dollar Store is the place to buy cute little glass containers, I bought several of them for the party. Having Rootbeer as our drink, is always such a treat for the kids.

Homemade slow cooked Mac & Cheese was so tasty, we will be making this again!
Parmesan Pretzel Bites were very simple to make, can't wait to try them with cinnamon & sugar next time.
Orange Fluff salad was a fun spin on the regular jello salad that we normally eat.
(If you want to view the recipes, click on the recipe names.)


Okay, so I think that about covers the party. It was a lot of work, not going to lie, but it was SO fun to see our sweet boy enjoy his FIRST birthday, so I guess that makes it worth it after all. :)

By the way, Mygrafico is going to be hosting a giveaway here tomorrow, you won't want to miss it!