Breakfast at Clare's

Clare is 1!!! For my sweet little lady's first birthday, I decided to go with a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme.  I saw the idea when a very good friend used it for her daughter's first birthday party back in February and I immediately fell in love with the idea.  I tried looking at other themes but I kept coming back to really wanting to do Breakfast at Clare's so I made sure that Jess didn't care (she was awesome and even sent a few things to use as well as details on everything she did!) and then I got to planning.

Clare showing her silly smile :)

I knew that I wanted to have a dessert table with some sort of focal point behind it but I didn't want to totally copy exactly what Jess had done so I started looking at making paper flowers.  I ended up going with more of a starburst design which really just meant hours of folding scrapbook paper into fans and then taping them together.  I was pretty happy with how it turned out! The cakes were another story.  I baked two cakes, 24 cupcakes, and made cake balls as well as dipping oreos in white chocolate.  Everything looked pretty and was pretty much as I expected but I made the mistake of putting the cupcakes out the night before because I forgot how much more dry it is here than in Oklahoma and California so they were pretty dry.  Sorry to anyone who had one!

Dessert Table

I decided to have brunch to go with the theme so we put out croissants with meat and cheese, doughnuts, fruit, a sausage and egg casserole, mini muffins and mini cinnamon rolls.  I also put out a little mimosa bar.  Since I made most of the desserts myself (with help from my mom), I decided not to stress myself out over the food so most of it was from Costco.  My very awesome Aunt Bethany let me borrow a bunch of serving dishes from her that really made the setup look nice :)

I made two different Happy Birthday banners and then I covered some boxes in Tiffany blue wrapping paper and ribbon to work as centerpieces and extra decor.  I also set up some pictures from Clare's photo shoot with Jessie with some of the quotes from Audrey Hepburn that Jess had sent me.  The final touch was a picture banner of Clare's monthly photos from her first year.

Clare refused to take her nap the morning of the party (I think she knew something exciting was coming), so she was a bit tired but she was pretty happy.  She loves people watching and there were plenty of friends and family for her to watch and play with!  I didn't really plan activities since Clare is too little to do anything structured.  We had everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to her which she seemed to enjoy and then we gave her a cupcake to smash in to.  She was pretty dainty with the cupcake and didn't make too much of a mess.  I bought her a cupcake from Nothing Bundt Cakes on her actual birthday a few days later and she did a much better job of making a mess with that one :)

Clare got spoiled with a ton of presents and she seemed to enjoy opening them!  Grayson and our cute neighbor Levi also helped her because she kept getting distracted by the toys she opened.  She got some really great presents and we are grateful for all of them!

The kiddos had a lot of fun playing with the new toys, especially with some help from Uncle Joel!

We ended up having a great time with all of the friends and family who came out to celebrate Clare with us!  We had a great turnout and I was so glad that Clare had both sets of grandparents here!

A big thank you to everyone who helped make Clare's 1st birthday a lot of fun!  She had so much fun that she literally passed out in my arms as we said goodbye to our last guests.  That is what I call a successful party :)