Brandon's 1st birthday!!!

Hello everyone! 

This is the first of many blogs that I hope to share with you.  If you know me good enough, then you know I'm not much of a blogger. But I guess with living far from many loved ones and having created a weird relationship with my cellphone, this seemed like the logical solution.  So, I hope you enjoy your readings! 

This past Saturday, the 13 of September, we celebrated Brandon Elisha's 1st birthday! His actual b-day is the 12th, but the party was better set on a weekend. I had sooo many ideas for his party it was pitiful! My mom was making fun of me reading my long lists of stuff that I wanted to do and that I was actually doing.  I love party planning though!  I'm a very detailed person so party planning is the perfect outlet for people like myself with a mild case of OCD. LOL! 

I was able to do the majority of the ideas I had.  I think it all worked out great! Of course there are always things that you missed or that you wish you could have done differently.  But again, I think I can just blame that attitude to my OCD.  Enough of that for now. Let me tell you all about what I did! 

The theme of the party was Baby Einstein.  The baby is a HUGE fan of the dvd's so even though everyone expected me to throw a "Tory Spelling-ish Monkey extravaganza" I chose to please the guest of honor and do what he would enjoy.

For those of you with kids, I'm sure you're familiar with the Baby Einstein dvd's.  For those of you who aren't, here's the deal.  It's basically a digital board book with puppets and images and simple words that stimulate babies.  Brandon was hooked since he was like a month old! 

I went online and found all kinds of goody's of the theme! Including a personalized banner...

...and the actual puppets that they use on the show.  So of course... I HAD to orchestrate a puppet show! :oD 

One of the things that I wanted to do and was so exited about was to somehow create a picture wall with one picture of every moth of the little man's life.  So, I did!  

I chose my favorite pict of every month and strung it from yarn with clothes pins and attached the age on the bottom of the pict.  It was a hit! I got so many compliments on it.  I was really proud and so happy it worked out! 

I WAS going to attempt to make the cake.  But a good friend gave me a good reality check on all the stuff I had going on and I decided against it.  So, I also decided not to inconvenience anyone with the task and bought one of the same theme at the local Publix.  It was cute and yummy.  And they also throw in the smash cake for free :o).

So, all and all it was a great party! I hope everyone there had a good time as well!

Love you and I'll be back to blog some more soon!