This entry is more about how I created the theme for his party. If you know us well you know we are Gators, we bleed orange and blue! So naturally Ben's first birthday theme was gator!
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| All starts with a cute invite. |
I did the invites using a card kit I found at Target that came with cards, envelopes, and the green paper. I cut out the gator from one I found on the website I ordered his shirt from. (So they matched)
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| I decorated with his monthly picture next to his gator (Albert). |
I got the cable and kit from Ikea, it worked out perfectly to hang all the pictures I took of him each month to show how much he's grown and changed.
With my sister's help and the help of
Hello Cupcake we decorated the cupcakes as gators.
I made 3 kinds of cupcakes:
Vanilla,
Hot Chocolate, and
Applesauce with
Buttercream frosting. For the gator shaped "cake" I made 24 mini cupcakes and we laid them out on a cookie sheet, the scales were Oreo cookie 100 calorie packs, the teeth were shaped marshmellows, and the eyes were frosting and M&Ms.
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| These were free hand |
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| Orange and Blue balloons and a gator football player... must have! |
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| The birthday boy in his Birthday shirt for his 12 month picture with Albert |
The shirt is from
Izzy B Designs, Jerica makes amazing shirts!
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| Ben had a great time eating his Applesauce cupcake! |
