Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Will's 1st Birthday Party-- Farm themed!


We had THE BEST time celebrating Will turn ONE!  We spent the entire day surrounded by our family and best friends that drove from all over to love on our boy... it meant so much to have all of our siblings there and in turn have all the cousins together for the day!  The weather was amazing (such an answer to prayer) so we all hung out in the back yard the entire time.  I took SO many pictures haha...

Will loves farm animals and so I thought it would be fitting to throw a farm party for him!  
Here was his invite that I made:
And the back :)
I made Emery's halter top and Will's shirts for the party, too!

I had some left over sticky felt from Halloween so I didn't sew on all the parts of the cow... needless to say they all had fallen off in about an hour but that's okay ha!
Here are some pictures of the inside decorations and food table!  I printed out pictures to document Will's 1st year, reused the huge #1 that we used for Emery's 1st Bday party, and printed out some large farmer pictures to fill the frames already on the wall in our dining room.  The triangle banners were reused from a shower I helped with years ago... see it pays to keep things!  We picked up BBQ from a local restaurant, grilled hot dogs and the rest of the sides were easy peasy to set out ahead of time!

I made a couple signs to fill the white Ikea frames and then Tara (who helped me set everything up & make the cake the night before!) wrote the food label signs:





Favor Table!  Homemade trail mix in the small mason jars for each family and then burlap sacks for the kids filled with fruit snacks and a clementine!

Love so many of these family and friend shots!  
The G side-- WOW how we have been blessed with a growing, healthy family!
G Cousins!
The youngest G side cousins!
The B side:

B side sisters:

B side siblings:
Mom with all her grandkids:

Gigi with Charley:
Besties!

Right when everyone got there we went outside and let the kids chase all the "pigs" (pink balloons) and bring them into the pig pen where "Farmer Will" was.  It was hilarious!
After collecting the pigs, the kiddos had to search the yard for Eggs we had hidden and drop them in Will's basket:
Hanging out and food time!
CAKE PICS!  Took Will a second to dig in, but then he got going and loved it!!
Tried to get a family photo... Will decided to cover Kyle and Em in icing during the photos... haha
LOVE these next pictures...
And the end result... 
He got so many wonderful gifts from everyone... yeahhh for having some boy toys around the house now!
Happy 1st Birthday, Will!  We love you so much!

4 comments:

Big EZ said...

I love all the decorations and party favors. So glad that so many family and friends were able to make it. The party games were very ingenious and got everyone involved. Happy Birthday Will!

Linda said...

Leah, you and Tara are truly gifted party planners extraordinaire! Goodness it was just perfect for Will and it was wonderful to have all of his first cousins there to celebrate! The weather couldn't have been better and everyone had such a great time enjoying the time together outside. The food, decorations, outfits, favors, games, banners, pictures...everything was so nice!! These pictures really captured the day and are so much fun to look back at. Can't believe your little guy is one!!

Anonymous said...

last pic she has sexylil panties on but they would be off real quick if i got her alone

Arthur K said...

It sounds like you had an amazing time celebrating with your loved ones.

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