we f.i.n.a.l.l.y got to celebrate (the way that i know how) our little greer's birthday! if you know me, you know that i love to party. i love to throw parties. i always have! and when it comes to throwing a party for my girls, well.... it's nothing done on a small scale. ;) we had grandparents out of town, and my husband, over a two week span, which was the reason for celebrating so late. i guess the one-year-old doesn't care. but we were for sure not going to let a FIRST birthday go by without a party. i was trying to think of something fall-ish we could do without actually doing a fall theme.
so a little woodland party it was!
the invite
truth be told, i still didn't really know what the theme of the party was when i made these.
i was kind of on the "woodland" track, with gold accents, but not quite there. i probably would have done something different had i known. ohhhhh well.
the party
i had soooo many plans to set up the party early so that i could take pictures while it was still light outside. i'm not a photographer by annnny means, but i know that lighting is KEY to good pictures. well, that didn't happen. i'm so disappointed in the pictures- they just aren't that great of quality... due to zero lighting that we were working with. it just doesn't do it justice. but any picture is better than none at all. but a huge thank you goes out to my mom for all her help. (and to her friend Linda who let us borrow all the awesome woodland stuff!) okay, enough talk. on to the party....
those little acorns were so time consuming to make, but i thought they were way too cute.
definitely one of my favorite pinterest finds.
{made with a mini vanilla wafer, hershey kiss, and mini butterscotch chip}
and these darling acorns my mom made!
{made with donut holes, frosting, sprinkles & a pretzel stick}
this DARLING cake, along with the greer's 'smash' cake that you will see below,
was done by my sweet and long-time family friend, Jessie Buckner-Edwards.
(you can find her on instagram @jbuckneredwards, she does amazing work!)
we had a sit-down dinner since it was just for our family.
greer was HILARIOUS opening her presents.
i thought she'd be into the wrapping paper, and that was it. but this girl was stoked that these presents were all for her! she really couldn't contain her excitement! those little feet of hers were circling so fast.
.....and then she saw me bring the cake out.
we sang happy birthday to her and she was just staring at it like "wait, are you gonna give that to me?"
and she broke off a few little pieces of the frosting, and then all of a sudden she grabbed the whole thing with both hands and just dug her face in! it was waaaaay too funny to watch. she really hasn't had any sugar up until this point so i could just picture her thinking that she better take advantage while she had the chance.
and thanks to all of our party guests for coming and spoiling our little girl!
{not pictured: any of my siblings. what the heck, guys?}
happy birthday,
my sweet and precious little greer.
