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!

Emery's 4th Birthday Party-- Belle style!

For Emery's 4th Birthday party we decided theme it around Belle, from Beauty and the Beast.  We invited 5 of Emery's closest friends and had a small party Sunday (her actual birthday) from 2-4 in the afternoon.  It was low key and the girls had a blast.

Here was her invitation:

And then this was attached to the back:

I had a gold tablecloth that we used, Emery set out our fancy beaded placemats and we stuck some fake roses in a row for the centerpiece....and that was about all we did to decorate the table!

As the party favor I sewed little "book bags" for all the girls, since Belle loves to read.  They aren't perfect but for mostly winging the pattern was really happy with how they came out!

On the table was their craft-- a magic mirror that they could decorate with fancy jewels.  The oval is cardboard covered in metallic wrapping paper, and then I cut all the glitter paper out with my silhouette which made it so easy.  I put their first initial on the back so they wouldn't get mixed up.

Here is a picture of Em's magic mirror once she finished!

We played "pin the petal on the rose" as our game.

Time to open presents... Emery got SO many awesome books and unbelievably no repeats!  Perfect presents for our little book worm!

We served cake, fruit & caramel dip (courtesy of Chick-fil-A), fruit snacks, and cheese and crackers... EASY!

I tried to make the icing look like little roses... success!

Singing to our girl!

And a blurry but documentary shot of all the girls who came! (Alaina, Merrin, Hailey, Em, Nora and Katherine)

Emery and I made a two tiered cake.. lemon and strawberry together YUM!

We let the girls dress up, dance around and then thankfully the weather outside was AMAZING so we played outside the rest of the time.  A really fun day!

Love our sweet girl!

Such a big 4 year old!