You are my Sunshine First Birthday Party

It is a cliche, but time really does fly.  Our youngest turned one this week, and to celebrate we invited everyone over for some BBQ and a sunshine party.  This theme turned out to be so much fun, and simple as well.

When I started thinking about this party, I wanted to keep it simple because as a full time working mom, my free time is sparse.  I made a list of what I really wanted to make.  This included painting a canvas:

I wanted to make a high chair banner (not sure if that is what this was called, but it was really fun using all the ribbon.

I wanted to make a banner using suns for Molly's picture each month. This was so easy and a lot of fun.

I also really like making cupcakes, and my MIL got me this really beautiful cupcake tower for Christmas. It is the first time I used it, and I loved how it looked.  The tablecloth is actually sun fabric.  The little spoons are for butterscotch banana pudding parfaits, which were delicious but were not as pretty as I thought they would be.  Molly loved her sun cake. I used funfetti cake, but used cream cheese as frosting.  Did you know that cream cheese frosting does not harden?  Oops!

At the last moment I bought some sun balloons, and I am so glad that I did.  I set up this table in our play room, and everyone ended up gathering there.

Molly really enjoyed her party.  We had a great time with friends and family.  She truly is sunshine in our lives.