June 5, 2010
Karter has been here an entire year. I CAN'T believe it. This was the fastest year ever.
I had been planning
Karter's 1st birthday for a few months. I decided on doing the theme of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
Karter loves this book. I handmade 25 invitations in March and sent them out early May. Basically I handmade everything but his birthday shirt. I bought that on my favorite website
Etsy. I think every part of his birthday turned out perfect except two things. The
butter cream icing and not getting any of it on video. The
butter cream melted on every cupcake. It was the very first day of the year to be over 100 degrees. So my icing did not want to cooperate with me. After making over 50 cupcakes and icing all of them I didn't care what they looked like. As long as they tasted good.
I had every
intention of recording
Karter's big day. I had the camera out and charging. It was all ready I just didn't have anyone grab it and record. Can't do much about it now.
We had about 40 people over to celebrate with us. I originally wanted a small party. Nothing huge and over the top. But once you invite one person you have to invite another and another. SO I decided this would be the year we invite anyone who took our long journey to parenthood and who had enjoyed his first year of life with us. Next year we will do a much smaller party for him. All in all I think he had a great day and everything came together perfectly. I did not cry only because there was so much going on but at the end of the day when all the guests had left and
Karter had gone to bed, I sat in my living room (mess and all) and thought about how blessed we have been over the last year.
Karter amazes me every.single.day and I love him so very much.
Birthday invitations and Party Hat
Party Hat
