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First Birthday Party Food

First Birthday Party Food

Brittany Payne
Parties, Kids

For Melody's First Birthday Party, I really struggled with what food to have at her party.  We knew we would have cake and an ice cream sundae buffet, but I wasn't really sure what to do about other food or if I should even have other food.  We planned to have about 30 people or so, and we opted for a party at 2 pm.  So we knew we would not need heavy food, but I wanted some sort of appetizers for everyone to snack on.  I contemplated continuing with the ice cream theme, but I wasn't exactly sure how to do that.  So we opted for some various finger foods.  I also was sure to include a few things I knew Melody and some of the other kids could have.

Melody's Twelve Month Schedule

Melody's Twelve Month Schedule

Brittany Payne
Kids

Melody's twelve month schedule isn't very different from her eleven month schedule.  I suspect this will be her schedule for awhile.  Melody is still taking a bottle, and we plan to transition her from the bottle to a sippy cup at around 14 months old.  We want to transition her to all milk first and not make a bunch of changes all at once.  When we do that, we will probably try and transition out the nighttime bottle.  Our pediatrician recommend this be completed by 15 months, so we will see how that goes!  We are also attempting to transition to one nap a day, but each day is different on what Melody wants.  So I will note the naps below too!  I probably won't update her schedule monthly anymore now that she is officially a toddler.  I will probably just post about the changes as they occur!

Foot Print Golf Course

Foot Print Golf Course

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Kids

For Father's Day, we decided to give Brad's dad some sort of foot print picture from Melody.  He loves to golf, so what better than a foot print that looks like a hole on the golf course.  Check out what we did below!

Ice Cream Cone Favors

Ice Cream Cone Favors

Brittany Payne
Parties, Kids

Melody's first birthday party was an ice cream themed party.  I wanted to do some cute favors to go along with the theme.  I found all kinds of things I considered doing.  I went back and forth on which type of favors to do.  Do I do fun favors?  Do I do edible favors?  Do I do favors I can make weeks in advance?  Do I do favors I have to make the day before?  So many decisions.  In the end I decided I wanted what was going to be the cutest!

Ice Cream Sundae Buffet

Ice Cream Sundae Buffet

Brittany Payne
Parties, Kids

Melody's first birthday party was an ice cream themed party.  Because of this theme, I knew I would need to incorporate ice cream into the party.  Traditionally, people include ice cream to simply go along with the cake, but I wanted something more.  So I decided to come up with a way to have an ice cream buffet!  

Birthday Guestbook

Birthday Guestbook

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties, Kids

For Melody's First Birthday, I wanted a simple guestbook.  I contemplated whether a guestbook was even necessary, but I really wanted something to document everyone there.  I came up with many ideas, but they all were becoming either way to complicated OR I had no clue what I would do with the guestbook when the party was over.  So I opted for simplicity.

Melody is ONE!

Melody is ONE!

Brittany Payne
Kids

Melody turned one May 25!  She celebrated with a party earlier that week, but on her actual birthday we were able to celebrate with her just the three of us.  Here is how her day went!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!

Brittany Payne
Randomness, Kids

Sunday was Brad's second Father's Day as a daddy.  He is such an amazing dad to Melody.  It is true what they say.  You do see a completely different side of your husband when he becomes a dad.  And you fall in love with him all over again, but for completely different reasons.  I knew he would be an amazing dad.  He is truly a kid at heart.  But seeing him with Melody has been more than I ever expected.  Melody and I love you Brad!

Donut Grow Up

Donut Grow Up

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties, Kids

My best friend's little girl, Lydia, turned one on May 13.  She decided to do a donut themed birthday party built around the phrase "Donut Grow Up".  How adorable is that?  She had a few ideas that she wanted me to do for her using my Silhouette Cameo machine.  All of these were her ideas, I just designed and cut them.

Melody's Eleven Month Schedule

Melody's Eleven Month Schedule

Brittany Payne
Kids

Melody's schedule has been extremely crazy over the last month.  We have done a LOT of transitioning I feel like.  Two big things happened.  One, around 11.5 months, we started the new schedule below.  We reduced our bottle count to only 3 bottles!  If you want to view the schedule for the first half of the month, it did not change from her 10 month schedule.  Two, naps are in limbo.  A lot of days in the last week of the month, she started only taking one nap a day.  Most of the time it was a complete accident.  Like we were out shopping during the morning, so she didn't really nap.  So she passed out after her lunch around 1 and would wake up for her bottle at 3.  The schedule below is going to be based on where she was at 11.5 months though...3 bottles, 2 naps!

Happy Birthday Banner

Happy Birthday Banner

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Parties, Kids

When planning Melody's First Birthday Party, I almost forgot about having some sort of signage that actually said Happy Birthday!  It finally hit me that I probably needed something somewhere. When planning out decor, I noticed that the wall above the cake was going to be empty aside from the lanterns I planned to hang and some balloons.  So I decided to come up with something using my Silhouette Cameo.

Fireplace Streamers

Fireplace Streamers

Brittany Payne
Parties, Kids

Melody's first birthday party was an ice cream themed party.  The colors were general pastel with the focus on pink, blue, and yellow.  I planned for her to have her smash cake in front of our fireplace so that everyone could see it.  I also wanted to open gifts in this same location.  I knew for gifts we would be sitting down, so I wanted to find some sort of decor that would cover up the actual fireplace.  I already had banners and balloons for the mantel.  I did some searching online and found where someone used streamers to cover their fireplace, so I decided to attempt that!

Melody's FIRST Birthday Party

Melody's FIRST Birthday Party

Brittany Payne
Household, Parties, Kids

I have said this many times, but it is truly so hard to believe our little baby is ONE!  I wanted a fun themed birthday party for Melody, but I didn't want to do a theme that she may want to do one day in the future.  So Brad and I came up with an ice cream themed party.  I personally loved the end result of the party, and it seemed to go over well with our family and friends.  Below are some general birthday party pictures.  This was a very DIY party, so I plan to post about all of the mini-projects that were involved.  I will link them as they are posted, so be on the lookout for those if you are interested!

Melody's Twelve Month Pictures

Melody's Twelve Month Pictures

Brittany Payne
Kids

Melody was officially twelve months old on May 25th.  It is truly amazing that one whole year has already passed by since Melody was born!  I have so many things to share in the coming weeks regarding her birthday, schedules, and pictures in general.  In the meantime, check out her pictures below.

Baby Painting

Baby Painting

Brittany Payne
Crafts, Kids

Painting with a baby isn't easy.  Honestly, I have been way to afraid to really attempt it.  We tried doing some hand molds at Christmas, and my child refused to open her hands.  I know if I put paint on them, she will just lick the paint off.  I noticed someone posted this method on Facebook not long ago.  With Mother's Day, I decided to make each of our mothers a piece of Melody art.  See the mess free method below!

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