Party Prep!

The KJ house is in full prep mode for Lexi's first birthday and Pintrest is helping out a ton! I've gotten so many good ideas for easy decorations and dishes to make. We're doing a "Little Birdie" theme. I had a hard time coming up with a theme at first because, I mean, Lexi is only 1. It's not like she has all of these outside interests and hobbies. She eats, sleeps (on occasion! Ha!), and plays with her toys. I don't let her watch a lot of TV and even when I do put it on she's not super interested in it. So, I went searching for some inspiration and found the perfect cupcake tree in all the right colors... And our birdie theme was born! 

Here's the invitations I made:

I want to make the majority of the food "Lexi friendly". Meaning things that she can eat and incorporate some of her favorites. So, the meal plan is sandwiches, pasta salad, fruit salad, sweet potato fries with dipping sauce, cheese and cracker tray (MIL is bringing), and homemade cupcakes. I'm also going to make a healthy smash cake. Drinks will be blueberry punch, iced tea, and bottled water.

For decorations, I wanted something inexpensive and easy, but still with a lot of pop. I found these great tissue paper pom-poms and made up a bunch to hang around. I made them in pink, white, purple, green, and yellow.

KJ and I went to Ikea last month and I scored some napkins and cups on clearance that just so happened to go with our color scheme. I also made some birthday banners. One says "Happy 1st Birthday Alexis" and the other is of her monthly photos. I'm really happy with how they turned out. 

I still have to make Thank You notes, but that will be a project for next week.

I think we'll have an ok turn out for the party. It'll be mostly family. It seems like Saturday is a busy day all around. All of our friends with kids who we invited were busy doing other things that day. I'm bummed there won't be any other babies for Lexi to play with at her party. I really need to find this girl some more friends... I was going to make up these nice favor bags for the kidos with healthy squeeze packs snacks and an age appropriate toy in them. I was also going to do a "toddler food" tray with cheese, graham crackers, dried cranberries, and blueberries. But I guess there's no need to do that now :(

Here is my to do list for the rest of the week... You know how I love lists when I get stressed! Haha!

To do for Lexi's party:

Wednesday:

Clean fridge

Wrap presents

Clean up basement

Finish chairs (my chalk paint chair project, more on that later!)

  Wax

Thursday:

Clean up deck

Weed

Wipe down door

Vacuum everywhere 

Touch up paint in living room

Friday:

Clean bathrooms

Take pictures and get printed

Make fruit salad

Make pasta salad

Prep fries

Make cup cakes and smash cake

  Bake

  Frost

  Fondont

Go shopping

Dust

Saturday:

Wipe down tables and chairs

Vacuum

Put up decorations

Bake fries

Arrange meat and cheese tray

Arrange condiment tray

Make dipping sauce

Lots of Love,

KJsbabe