Scout had a great birthday party on Saturday (Which was on her actual birthday - How cool is that?) Just by some stroke of luck, the whole thing was timed perfectly with her nap schedule, so she woke up nice and refreshed just before it was time to get her dressed for the party. My mom made her a sweet dress out of Hello Kitty print fabric and a pinafore with machine-embroidery. It turned out so cute!



Here's me with my one-year-old!!



Scout seemed to have fun running around with all the "big kids" on the gym mats at my friend's gymnastics studio where we had the party. She chowed down on some Chick-Fi1-A nuggets (We got 2 large nugget trays and had a coupon for buy-one-get-one-free. Woot!) and some fruit salad and pasta salad, and then tore into her cake.

I made a smash cake especially for her out of somewhat healthy ingredients. She gagged on the first taste of icing, which was hilarious because I had just been bragging to the surrounding guests about how I made this delicious healthy cake from scratch for her. She seemed a little reluctant to dig in at first, but then decided it was tasty enough and got a couple of good fistfuls. My favorite was when she turned and looked at the video camera in the midst of the messiness and said, "Hiiiiiieeeeee!" with a giant grin on her face (I need to get hot on uploading that video so you guys can see it) She also liked to lean in and just suck the icing off the corner of the cake.









I didn't think she'd be all that interested in unwrapping gifts, but she really surprised me. She actually seemed excited about it and enjoyed ripping the wrapping paper and tossing tissue paper out of gift bags. She also had fun tossing the once neatly-folded clothes over her shoulder as she grabbed them out of the boxes. (Man-o-man, did she get a TON of clothes!!!! I won't need to buy her any clothes for Summer now!)



I had invited about 30 adults and 12 babies/toddlers to the party, but only about half showed up. Maybe not even half. I'm not sure what the head-count was. (I think more people did show up after I took this pic, though) It was super nice outside that day, so I bet a lot of families were taking advantage of the nice weather and doing things like cooking out and working in the garden. Can't blame them for that. If I would've known it was going to be such a gorgeous day, I would've planned an outdoor party. But we've been having copious amounts of rain around here lately, so I wasn't sure that'd be smart.



All the kiddos that did come seemed to have a blast romping around on the padded floor, trampoline, and big soft ramps and cylinders. It was a great place for a party and we were blessed to get to use the facility for free. My friend who made the gorgeous Hello Kitty cake, insisted on making the cake for FREE! DH does computer work for her and her husband sometimes and she just wanted to bless us back. What a wonderful gift!!






In fact, we really didn't have to pay for much of anything!! My parents and grandma paid for all of the decorations, the table/chair rental, and most of the food. I think the only thing we may have paid for was one nugget tray! We are seriously spoiled. DH's dad said to me, "Good thing she won't remember any of this, because this is one heck of a party! It would be tough to top this with future parties!" He's right. From now on, I'd like to do smaller "family" parties at home (at least until she gets old enough to care)....but I'm sort of glad we went all out for her first birthday. It was really special.

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