In February this year we celebrated my daughter Sydney’s first birthday party. I actually planned two birthday parties; one for family and one for friends who have young children. After 4 weeks of intense event planning, a little stress, a lot of cooking, and tons of support from my husband, both events went off without a hitch. Take a peek at her parties by viewing the slideshow below.
Planning a party that runs smoothly, is on budget, and creates lasting memories is a hard thing to do. To help you plan your birthday event, I designed a Birthday Party Planner with weekly checklists to keep you on track! Click on the pic below to download your own copy. (Be sure to download and open the document in MS Word for the correct formatting.)
A note about Sydney’s Birthday:
I am an avid baker and I love creating elaborate special occasion cakes. But, Sydney honey, I am sorry I didn’t make a “special cake” for your first birthday. (The first we purchased from Costco, and the second was actually home-made gourmet cupcakes in fancy wrappers I purchased.) I hope you will forgive me. I did throw TWO parties for you! (To give you an idea of why Sydney may someday think I didn’t work hard enough on her first birthday cake below are a couple of birthday cakes I made for others. (The first one is a jungle babies theme and the second is the Little Einsteins’ Pat Pat Rocket.)
Are you going to plan a birthday party for your child in the coming months? What will be your theme? What do you think will be your biggest planning challenge? What do you think your child will like most? Leave a comment about your favorite birthday party planning tip!
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Event planning a party that runs smoothly, is on budget, and creates lasting memories is a hard thing to do. So one needs to be constantly in touch with weekly checklists to keep you on track.
Hi Abbie,
I like your post on birthday party planning.
I actually just did a recent post on why you should bake your own cake for parties IF you have the time(to be frugal and have decorating fun!). Here is the link: http://frugalfriends.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/frugal-cake-lady/
In my post I linked to some different tutorials and photos of theme cakes such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Disney’s Cars, Castle, Flip Flop, Purse, and more.
Your jungle babies cake and Little Einstein cake are adorable!
Laura