Thomas and Amari

After contemplating various 1st birthday party ideas, I settled on a Thomas the Train theme. Decorations such as hanging 3d clouds, cloud posters, highchair banner, Name; letters and numbers, candy buffet containers and banners, favor bags and luggage tags, wall decorations (corresponding trains) and tissue poms, edible treats; candy apple (favors), cookies, jello cups, Chocolate lollipop (#1 center pieces), all of the aboved were created and designed by myself. Water bottle labels, smash cake and cupcakes were outsourced, via a local baker, and etsy

• Desserts

  Vanilla cupcakes with alternating blue and red buttercream icing. Layered jello cups (strawberry, lemon,and blueberry), homemade sugar cookies with homemade icing, Color coded candy; red and blue airheads, yellow banana taffy's, and Thomas the Train gummy snacks.

• Party Favors

  Homemade Red of Blue (Blue Raspberry) candy apples, Wrapper with "Amari" cookies, #1 chocolate lollipops, assorted Thomas the Train trinkets; bubbles, crayons ect.

• Activities / Games

  No organized games, just allowed the one year olds to be one!

• Budget

  Didnt set one, definitely didnt stick to one, In retrospect bought a lot of unnecessay things, a lot of which are still in its original packaging (couldn't locate my reciepts)! I did utillize Dollar Tree when able, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Party City.

• What People Ate

  Chili Bar; Two crockpots of chili, both beef one with beans, one without beans. Chili offered by itself, or to be placed on top of nachos, hot dogs, and/or pasta. Condiments provided; sour cream shredded cheese, salsa,ketchup, mustard, and relish.

• What People Drank

  Homemade sweet tea and lemonade, and water.

• Best Moment

  My son's smile.

• Funniest Moment

  Son attempting to smash his cake only after realizing he'd need to be a bit rougher to get through the fondant.

• Most Touching Moment

  Realizing your celebrating one year of life, when knowing life is not guarenteed.

• Best Dressed

  Wasn't even on our mind. Cliche answer... our son!

• Diana

  Cake designer

  Operates out of Crossroads, in Pelahatchie, MS.

• PrintSparkle

  Printables

  Product delivered within hours, no probelms with this helper at all. http://Etsy
  [email protected]

• Bridgett

  Stationer

  Provided our son's custom train ticket invites. Wonderful to work with, patient, understanding, and is determined to get the product as you wish. Would work with again.

• Sugarcraft Inc.

  Party Favors

  Candy apple mix purchased from SugarCraft. http://sugarcraft.com

• M&B Concessions

  Party Favors

  I utilized the location in Jackson, Ms off woodrow willson.