Party!

We celebrated Parker's 1st birthday last weekend by throwing a party for family & friends.  My wonderful family flew in from St. Louis on Friday: Mom, Dad, Annie, Jack, & Charlie.  Greg's family drove in from Pittsburgh on Saturday:  Gennie, Eric, Clare, & Cate.  The party consisted of 20 adults, 5 preschoolers, 5 toddlers, and 2 babies.  The weather was a bit dicey and it rained all night on Friday, but by Saturday afternoon the skies had cleared.  While it was still chilly, it was a pretty, brisk, fall day. 

We had a taco bar with two different kinds of chicken, ground beef, & fish.  We had a cake made from an amazing bakery in our neighborhood and sugar cookies as favors.  The theme was the colors hot pink, torquoise, & orange with some polka dots sprinkled in.  Thank goodness my Mom and sister were in town because they were my event designers and did all of the decorating work, who knew a few balloons could have such an impact!

Even though this was a child's birthday party, we still had a full bar complete with margaritas and a honey crisp apple sangria.  It's the first time (and hopefully not last) where we had a bounce house in the yard and bar set up inside! 

To top it all off, our friends Tim & Laura surprised us by making this video of the event.  Good thing we have creative, artistic friends because this is above and beyond what Greg and I could ever manage to do on our own. 

Tim's Video

 

 

 

On Sunday we went to Stokoe Farms and had all kinds of fun.