You know, when you have a million things to do around the house and you can probably name them all one by own off the top of your head? But you don't do them because you can find things that are a lot less productive but kinda insanely self gratifying.
Like...taking an hour of Josiah's nap to jot down all the homemade house cleaning products that I use on my blog, instead of getting ahead of my usual Friday clean day.
It's just one of those weeks! I've been using my time very poorly, but well worth it because I've been playing with my beautiful son who is now walking everywhere it seems!
Here's a video of Josiah walking!
A little off track, whoops! Alright I'll get to the point!(I told you it was one of those weeks! ;))
With this party, I wanted it to be family only. Maybe a few friends, but the ones who did come were my siblings bf and gf and our friend David(aka uncle Dave to Josiah). It was so fun!
I also wanted it to be cheap! We are on a tight budget and this was important. Somehow I made it work! My husband said that I went a little overboard with the decor and the details but, I loved doing it! Everyone thought that the house looked so pretty. Most decor I made myself with the credit help of pinterest and friend's blogs. The food was probably the most expensive because we ordered 3 pizzas from Walery's for dinner which I don't regret in the least! Plus I made some appetizer like food.
Before party pictures
Yep! I'm 1!
Playing his piano that Grandma Barrows got him, boy does that kid love to play! I'm kinda hoping that he gets mine, my dad's, and grandma Barrows musically talented gene.
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| I love his wavy curls! |
I wanted some kind of memoir for Josiah to have when he gets older. I had everyone put a thoughtful note on this piece of poster board for him.
I already had a dozen mason jars from canning last summer, so I just used some ribbon that I've hoarded and bought some cardboard decals of the little birds. I didn't want to pay $5 for small package of cardboard birds, so I traced and cut them out of pretty blue paper. I used regular plastic straws. I really wanted to find some paper ones, but I was running out of time and I didn't want to pay for however much they were charging.
I made some pom poms out of tissue paper to match the colors of his party and I made the banner out of scrapbook paper, ribbons and I traced the letters out of the cardboard lettering. Tracing and cutting took up a lot of time, but I think that it was definitely worth it considering the cost of those darn cardboard cut outs. I can use them over and over again now!
Here again with the banner, I borrowed the punch bowl from my mother and I actually bought the liquid dispenser thingy from BB&B with a $10 off discount. Lantern is from IKea($3)! Love that place!
I think that out of everything, Josiah loved the balloons the best!
And what's a party without balloons? ;)
And of course last, but certianly NOT the least(my fav part) the cake! I think that I made have went a little overboard with his cake, but it was homemade and I tried my best to make it sugar free for the guy. But I just had to put a little bit of oreos and gummy worms on top for the pics. I scraped the goodies off the top for him to dig into without me worrying about him being up all night from the sugar.
Yummy!
We all had a wonderful time with this kid and I can't wait to see all the surprises that he's going to present us with in the future!
Mommy and Daddy love you very much Josiah and we can't wait to see what God has in store for your life.
Love, Mommy
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