It's Party Time!

Once all our guests arrived, it was time for dinner but let's fast forward to the extra fun stuff first.... CAKE!

I was in love with Addison's cake and was SO happy with how it turned out.  It was from Geelicious Confections in Frisco and the nicest baker, Gloria, made it just perfect.  Even better, I happened to WIN Addison's cake in a monthly giveaway back in March.  Who wins a cake!? Gloria delivered her beautiful presentation on Saturday afternoon and went above and beyond our expectations.  

The GIANT cupcake is completely edible and was accompanied with Addison's smaller smash cake. In fact, the only thing you couldn't eat on the whole tray was Addison's picture.

Addison sat in all her glory and listened to everyone sing her "happy birthday" and then very delicately, went right for the frosting.  I helped her after a few minutes get to the cake.  I think she would have spent hours slowly swiping her fingers in the frosting bit by bit.  She loved it.

I love that sweet face more than I can put into words.

Here is a video of our little cupcake!

Okay, let's back up a bit.  As I mentioned - we had dinner after our guests arrived and then Addison opened some gifts.

We had Addison's party at 5 in the evening so we put together a simple dinner spread of sandwiches, pasta salad, fruit, chips, dip, some veggies and tortilla roll ups.

And some sweets of course to celebrate our "Sweet One".

I found some great recipes I used for Addison's cookies and cupcakes.  I will share those in a later post.

I could not have put Addison's party together without the help of my wonderful Mom.  We spent Friday afternoon together prepping for Miss A's cupcake party.  I loved every minute of it and we had some really fun laughs along the way!

Addison thought the tissue paper was the best part of her presents! Once she was over the paper... she found interest in her new toys that talk to her and play music.

Addison loved her slide from Mimi and Papa as did her cousins.  She still needs some help of course but will love that for many years to come.

We had the best time celebrating our 1-year old and cannot thank our family enough for celebrating with us.  The amount of support and love we have received from those we love for over the past year is priceless.

We asked our guests to sign the inside cover of "Camilla the Cupcake Fairy" for Addison to have as an extra sweet memory in years to come.

 

 The little ones went home with bubbles for party favors.

I am looking forward planning Addison's next birthday but for now, I am soaking up time with this precious TODDLER walking all over the house and developing quite the little personality.

We cannot wait to see what this next year brings!

Happy 1st Birthday Addison Leigh!