I don't think my heart has fully been able to accept that I am sitting here writing the blog post of my daughter's first birthday party. Even though her actual first birthday is September 11, we wanted to celebrate before all the back to school and end of summer madness. What a year it has been for my family and myself, I sometimes sit back and think about how far we have come in this whole journey in general. How just about two years ago we had no hope of starting a family, we weren't sure if it would ever happen for us and here we are - celebrating our daughter's first birthday. It took everything in me not to cry through her entire party, she is so loved by everyone in her life and that really showed this weekend. We had close friends and family on both Kyle's side and mine come together and spoil Everly with laughter and memories. It is truly one of those days I will never forget, 18 years from now when she wants nothing to do with us haha and I see these photos and videos I will always remember the feelings I felt celebrating with her.
Her theme was "Onederland," which was like a little floral oasis mixed with pinks and pastels, pretty much as girly as it gets. There was so much more I wanted to make for her party but overall I think it turned out really beautiful. The kids did a piñata which was fun to see the little ones try their hardest to break it. We filled it with small toys and some candy. The birthday favours were all personalized hand painted peg people, I figured instead of getting a bunch of small cheap plastic toys that people throw out anyways I would get something a little more special. We also had the most beautiful hand painted sugar cookies made by someone local to us, she had put water coloured flowers on them and they were so amazing, but at the same time way too beautiful to eat lol.
The weather was perfect, not too hot and not too cold. Overall the day went smoothly except for some minor teething pains (she popped another tooth that morning). We also had printed out some photos from her cake smash we did the weekend before. Those turned out so amazing, I styled the shoot and Kyle snapped away - reminded me of how much I loved working with him for photography. We decided to try a milk bath for her photos afterwards and it turned out perfect.
Happy First Birthday my sweet sweet girl!
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