Polka Dot Birthday party

We celebrated Claire's birthday on Saturday with a polka dot party in Grandma Diane's backyard. Mother Nature cooperated with us, since it snowed the day before we were a little scared, but the weather was great! Jason's family arrived from California the night before- we were so glad they were able to come up. We had lots of friends and family over too.

Here's the invite I made

And the star of the party, well besides Claire... the cupcake cake. I was so worried this wasn't going to turn out. But it ended up alright since I am not an expert cake decorator.
Here's our lovely food spread, we had yummy chicken salad sandwiches, fruit, chips & dip, veggies.

Abby and Brenna playing with some of the balls (polka dots) before the party started.

Some of the decorations- I made a polka dot Happy Birthday sign.

Debra cleared everything off of the fridge and put pictures up of Claire, the 5 pictures on the left are of me on my first birthday, do you think we look alike? (click the picture to see it larger) Ahhh Jennie is so nice, she sat at the kids table with my nieces

Enjoying the party- notice all the polka dots... he he

I know this is not a clear picture but it shows the kids enjoying the bounce house

Birthday cupcake time- I found this "1" sparkler at a party store, and it actually worked, I loved it. We also had cupcakes with polka dot sprinkles on them.

As you can see Claire didn't like her cupcake either, I made hers with a very very thin layer of frosting and she still wanted her fingers clean

Present time

California family bought their presents to Claire when they got up here so they didn't have to carry them on the plane. Claire was with them and I guess the rule was whatever Claire touched they bought... she got lots of fun things.

You can't really tell from this picture but Claire is doing a little dance because this Dora bike plays music so she was dancing to it.

She loves her little baby doll

Aunt Ruth Ann did a great job of displaying all of Claire's clothes

Here's Auntie Ree trying to get the birthday girl to take a little nap, it didn't work but she got some good snuggle time in with her.

The yummy chocolate chip cookies that Debra made for the parents to take home, notice the M&M's (polka dots)

Abby, Samantha, and Brenna showing the goodie bags that the kids got. They had Easter eggs filled with candy inside since Claire was born on Easter last year. And a bag of Yo-Go's (little yogurt cover fruit balls- more polka dots)

Here's a shot of Jason and out friend Jennie playing with the girls in the bounce house.

Go Jay, White men CAN jump!

Claire loves this walking thing, so Auntie Ree went walking with her all around Grandma's house.

Hmmm can you tell where they are from??? California. They thought it was cold so they are all bundled up and even are taking a little nap at the end of the party.

Claire got inside this car and loved it- she was really driving.

Brenna, Claire and Abby all matched in the cute polka dot shirts

And here's the 3 of us after the party was over (don't mind my obnoxious polka dot shirt- I had to buy it for the party)

It sure was a great day, thank you to all those family and friends who shared the day with Claire. We can't believe we have a 1 year old now!!!