@kmurdock925 I'm late at responding (3 deaths in the family have kept me busy) but I believe she said you were brave because a LOT of colors like that, stain horribly! Lol My nephew was green for a week after his smash cake! I bet it is going to be gorgeous though!
I don't have many pics yet. My girlfriend came early and brought her nice camera to help with photos. However she forgot to leave the memory card and left for vacation this morning. So I'll get them next week hopefully. But she shockingly loved her cupcake and ate it with n problem in front of the crowd!!!
We had William's party yesterday. We were going for a primary colour/ mustache theme and I think we pulled it off. The weather was perfect, Will skipped his morning nap but thankfully didn't meltdown and it all went off without a hitch! We didnt do a cake smash so much as I held him while he tried some cake and he took a tiny bit of icing and then a giant handful of cake as soon as he got a taste of it! He then proceeded to put his icing covered hand all over my chest.
Need to rant somewhere and you ladies will get it, so please ignore the long post!
I have just become ridiculously overwhelmed with the birthday party. DH got a new job and has been mostly uninvolved with any planning except to say that he wanted it big. So we invited 70 people 55 of whom will be there. It is now less than 2 weeks out and I needed to finalize food/entertainment/ a few other decisions. I tried talking to him about it and he lays out this HUGE plan with two catered meals (lunch AND dinner for any one who's still around after 5) and 4, yes FOUR, bounce houses and a huge indoor ball pit with 10000+ balls and cases of alcohol and "why didn't I invite these 3 neighbors (an additional 14ppl) that we literally maybe see 1x a month for a poker game?" And cases/kegs of alcohol only for me to remind him it's on a SUNDAY from 1-4 and then get criticized for making it a Sunday and "well we certainly don't need even a single bounce house now" who has a birthday party on a Sunday? It took 4 hours, Nothing was resolved, and I'm running out of time
Is your husband planning a wedding? Or maybe a kid friendly frat party? All jokes aside. I'm really sorry. That sounds incredibly overwhelming.
Can you sit down with him and make a list of what he considers "must haves" and you do the same? Find a middle ground on the booze. Maybe just wine and beer? Or a signature cocktail? 4(?!) bounce houses seems excessive. So perhaps 1-2 would be ok. Call me crazy, but I think 1 meal will do just fine. I guarantee you'll have leftovers. And honestly, with a time like 1-4 "etiquette" says you don't even have to serve a full meal. Let alone 2.
I hope he calms down and you can figure out the details. It's supposed to be fun, not stressful!
@FTM53 I'm going to tell you a little how our party went - We had 40 adults, and 21 kids between the ages of 2-9.
We had ONE bounce house, and the kids MAYBE spent an hour worth of time in it. Maybe. I bought 10-15 items from Dollar Tree like water guns, sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, footballs, hula hoops. They hardly touched any of it. I think they drew with the chalk for about 5 minutes. We also have a ball pit in our house. They were more interested in using about 10 of the balls to throw around. They entertained themselves by creating their own games and running around constantly. Moral of the story - you'd be wasting a lot of money on the 4 houses and ball pit, lol.
I was also convinced my wine/beer drinking friends would kill half a liquor store, if given the opportunity. SO, we bought about 8 bottles of white wine, a few champs, and some reds. We have a kegerator in our backyard and it was loaded with a keg. We threw out some bottled beer in our beverage tubs, too. ONE keg was maybe half gone, some bottles were drank and about half the wine. If that. I feel like you'd also be wasting a lot of money on all that booze. Like you said, it's a Sunday. People aren't going to come to a first birthday, on a Sunday afternoon, with the intent to get liquored up, lo!!
Now, the icing on the cake - literally - I bought two 1/2 sheet cakes from Costco, because they're cheap and I was lead to believe one cake serves about 30 people. Not everyone is over the moon about dessert!! We had an ENTIRE cake left!! My husband also got suckered into about 4 XL pizzas more than we needed, based on he and the pizza worker's calculations on slices per person. You'd DEFINITELY be wasting money planning two catered meals.
Hope some of my experience helps you to make better choices, lol. I'd hate to see you waste a bunch of unnecessary money!!
@FTM53 holy insane 1st bday party. That sounds like a wedding reception. That is intense. And expensive. Does he legitimately think that is how kids parties go? Going out on a limb here- maybe he hasn't been to many kids parties?
@TiffRox81 thanks. That does make me feel better. Your numbers look very similar to ours. My invites say "drinks and light snacks; BYOB" it's not that I mind all his epic ideas, it's that he through it all on me with less than 2 weeks notice and then just dropped it all and wanted nothing cause it was a Sunday. Just not feeling the fun right now when I was really excited a day ago. I know we'll figure it out. Just needed to rant.
@LDSJM123@kmurdock925 Lol...yes, he's a show off and always wants the biggest and best. I was worried about this when we first had DS, so I dragged him to a couple a kids' birthday parties. All it did was confirm what he "didn't like" at a kids Birthday (no seating, no planned activities, crappy food ect...). He wants it stand out and "be special". Which I kinda created because I brought up the idea of a 1/2 keg because it's also a "we survived the first year" party. I think he took that and went a bit looney with it
You're preaching to the choir. My husband also likes to be the ultimate party thrower. Which is why we spent an embarrassing amount of money, if you ask me, on all the stuff I listed! Hey, you only turn 1 once right?! Lol But true story, in hindsight some of it we could have done without. The sucky part about stocking too many kegs is you'd legit have to keep them cold and drink them!! They'd go bad otherwise. I'm all for wasting $10 at the dollar tree but wasting a couple hundred on kegs would really break my heart, lol!! And same is true with the food...you can only eat leftovers for so many days. We were sending the last of the mohicans home with pizzas!!!
Haha! I'm completely with you! Wasting beer and food just makes me cry. It sounds like our husbands would get along. I think DH only didn't mention fireworks because he hadn't thought of it...next year, he wants to throw a huge birthday party the weekend before the 4th as a kinda pre-party and birthday bash. I think it will crush him once DS is old enough to say "nah, I just want Jacob and Liam over to play video games and eat a pizza."
So DH found his mind and realized he might have been going a bit extreme. We solved the entertainment and cake. Still working on food and any safety upgrades needed.
Question for moms though: Of all the birthday parties you've been to, what makes them most enjoyable for YOU?
We will have cornhole and penny-ante poker for the dudes (we're known as the poker house) and plenty of fun for kiddos, but want to make sure the other moms enjoy themselves, too. I'm thinking wine and plenty of adult seating where kids can be kept an eye on. But anything else?
@ftm53 I think that sounds like a good plan. I would say that in addition to seating make sure there are places for the moms to set their drinks down if they need both hands to chase after the littles. I always find myself awkwardly not sure if i should put my cup in the grass or hand it to someone (hoping someone is close enough) or what to do with it.
Today is Ps birthday!! This year went way too fast. Tomorrow is the party and I am not anywhere close to ready, tons (ok like 40) of people are coming and I have never hosted this many people!
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@FTM53 Thanks! It did go well, we had lots of fun! And P was out like a light in his stroller by the end, so I guess that means it was a success haha. I didn't have time to get many pictures, so I'm hoping my mom sends me a bunch soon!
Married 6/1/13
BFP #1 7/2013 MMC 9/17/13
BFP #2 5/2014 MC 6/15/14
BFP #3 11/13/14 (Found in ER with ruptured cyst) Diagnosed MC 11/15/14
BFP #4 4/2015 MC 7/1/15
BFP #5 10/21/15 EDD 7/3/16 Praying for our rainbow!
Here we are...the big party weekend! DH & LO are grocery shopping today while I'm at work and I haven't had any texts yet saying he can't find something so hopefully he gets everything! lol. Food & garage prep tomorrow, truck pull tonite & tomorrow night, and big 1st birthday party on Sunday!
Miss M's party went wonderfully! We served pulled pork, baked beans, pasta salad, watermelon, and a veggie platter. There were apple and blueberry pies, a decadent chocolate cake, and a variety of sugar cookies. There was plenty of booze too . Her smash pie wasn't messy enough so we gave her a big hunk of cake to eat too. Our in lieu of gifts also was a hit. We have an entire wagon full of dog/cat related items to donate to our local shelter. I'm in denial that my baby turns 1 tomorrow but so incredibly thankful for all the people that love her and came to celebrate our sweet girl!
Lucian had his birthday on his birthday last Saturday the 22nd! Hazy, hot and humid until the clouds opened up about an hour after the party started we made due with out tents and then retreated inside the house once the monsoon hit. Of course you would think it was a, quick passing storm from all that humidity and 95 degree temp!...(insert sarcasm right here) OF COURSE NOT...RAIN CLOUDS: "LET ME SIT RIGHT HERE AND RAIN FOR THE DURATION OF THIS KIDS PARTY AS WELL AS THE NEXT 3 DAYS"!!! I'm not kidding! :::SIGH::: as pissed as I was about that, I looked at the other kids running around in our back yard, stepping in puddles, chasing each other in the pouring rain and thought, that is what it's all about...just go with it! Everyone seemed to have a great time! We sang happy birthday of about 50 ppl huddled under a tent together! Can't get much better....lmao This little piggy ate the whole smash cake
...and then bathtime after and that smile....lmao Happy birthday to all the July 2016 babies!! XoXo
Re: 1st bday! Because someone had to...
Time to party!! Haha
I have just become ridiculously overwhelmed with the birthday party. DH got a new job and has been mostly uninvolved with any planning except to say that he wanted it big. So we invited 70 people 55 of whom will be there. It is now less than 2 weeks out and I needed to finalize food/entertainment/ a few other decisions. I tried talking to him about it and he lays out this HUGE plan with two catered meals (lunch AND dinner for any one who's still around after 5) and 4, yes FOUR, bounce houses and a huge indoor ball pit with 10000+ balls and cases of alcohol and "why didn't I invite these 3 neighbors (an additional 14ppl) that we literally maybe see 1x a month for a poker game?" And cases/kegs of alcohol only for me to remind him it's on a SUNDAY from
1-4 and then get criticized for making it a Sunday and "well we certainly don't need even a single bounce house now" who has a birthday party on a Sunday? It took 4 hours, Nothing was resolved, and I'm running out of time
Is your husband planning a wedding? Or maybe a kid friendly frat party? All jokes aside. I'm really sorry. That sounds incredibly overwhelming.
Can you sit down with him and make a list of what he considers "must haves" and you do the same? Find a middle ground on the booze. Maybe just wine and beer? Or a signature cocktail? 4(?!) bounce houses seems excessive. So perhaps 1-2 would be ok. Call me crazy, but I think 1 meal will do just fine. I guarantee you'll have leftovers. And honestly, with a time like 1-4 "etiquette" says you don't even have to serve a full meal. Let alone 2.
I hope he calms down and you can figure out the details. It's supposed to be fun, not stressful!
@FTM53
We had ONE bounce house, and the kids MAYBE spent an hour worth of time in it. Maybe. I bought 10-15 items from Dollar Tree like water guns, sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, footballs, hula hoops. They hardly touched any of it. I think they drew with the chalk for about 5 minutes. We also have a ball pit in our house. They were more interested in using about 10 of the balls to throw around. They entertained themselves by creating their own games and running around constantly. Moral of the story - you'd be wasting a lot of money on the 4 houses and ball pit, lol.
I was also convinced my wine/beer drinking friends would kill half a liquor store, if given the opportunity. SO, we bought about 8 bottles of white wine, a few champs, and some reds. We have a kegerator in our backyard and it was loaded with a keg. We threw out some bottled beer in our beverage tubs, too. ONE keg was maybe half gone, some bottles were drank and about half the wine. If that. I feel like you'd also be wasting a lot of money on all that booze. Like you said, it's a Sunday. People aren't going to come to a first birthday, on a Sunday afternoon, with the intent to get liquored up, lo!!
Now, the icing on the cake - literally - I bought two 1/2 sheet cakes from Costco, because they're cheap and I was lead to believe one cake serves about 30 people. Not everyone is over the moon about dessert!! We had an ENTIRE cake left!! My husband also got suckered into about 4 XL pizzas more than we needed, based on he and the pizza worker's calculations on slices per person. You'd DEFINITELY be wasting money planning two catered meals.
Hope some of my experience helps you to make better choices, lol. I'd hate to see you waste a bunch of unnecessary money!!
Question for moms though: Of all the birthday parties you've been to, what makes them most enjoyable for YOU?
We will have cornhole and penny-ante poker for the dudes (we're known as the poker house) and plenty of fun for kiddos, but want to make sure the other moms enjoy themselves, too. I'm thinking wine and plenty of adult seating where kids can be kept an eye on. But anything else?
:::SIGH::: as pissed as I was about that, I looked at the other kids running around in our back yard, stepping in puddles, chasing each other in the pouring rain and thought, that is what it's all about...just go with it! Everyone seemed to have a great time! We sang happy birthday of about 50 ppl huddled under a tent together! Can't get much better....lmao
This little piggy ate the whole smash cake
...and then bathtime after and that smile....lmao
Happy birthday to all the July 2016 babies!! XoXo