Morgan's First Birthday Party

warning: picture over load today!!! 

you've been warned. :)

morgan's party has come and gone and here we are the day 

before my baby turns ONE! the party was exactly as i had hoped. we had all 

our friends to help celebrate and we had a blast!! 

party morning!!! she knew it was her day.  

okay, so lets start with the house all decorated. 

i'm so thankful my parents let me completely take over their home 

for the party. with 50 adults and 15 kids there is physically no way this 

would have happened in my home. so thank you mimi and poppi!! 

there really wasn't a 'theme' to the party, it was more just pink and gold with 

pictures of morgan everywhere. i really just wanted everyone to see how much

she has changed over the last year and i personally loved just seeing her face all over the house. 

i really love how her birthday chalkboard turned out printed. this is going

in her play room and would love to do this again for next year. 

more birthday chalkboard info here

i bought the dr. seuss happy birthday to you book to have everyone sign. 

it came out so cute and was really fun reading all the sweet things everyone wrote to morgan. 

i don't really print pictures unless i am framing them. i make photo books, so i

had all of morgan's out for the party. i had her newborn, 6 month, 9 month, fall pictures and our instabooks {instagram pictures}. they are all made from blurb. i absolutely love them. 

candy land! all the pictures that are hanging as a banner are from instagram 

that i had printed at walgreens. they came out really good. 

we had a kids table with some fun little things to keep them busy. 

my mother-in-law got a really old wooden high chair and

my dad completely fixed it up for the party and it came out so adorable!!!

i'm so mad i forgot to take a before picture! 

someones ready for her guest to arrive! 

morgan's outfit: headband | shirt | skirt | shoes 

i don't think she knew what to think of everyone singing to her. 

when i wasn't paying attention my hubby got me with some cake

so of course i had to get him back! :)

this girl loves, loves, loves icing. who doesn't? 

i tried for 2 days to get morgan's picture next to her birthday chalkboard

but its impossible to get her to sit still she is always on the move. 

since we didn't get a picture of her whole high chair with the balloon i decided what the heck

lets give her a cupcake and take more pictures :)

if you made it here to the end, thank you for sticking through this 

very super long post!! 

coming up next: the last 3 weeks of her weekly pictures that i totally for to post! 

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DIY Birthday Chalkboard

okay, i am totally freaking out!!! 

morgan's first birthday party is THIS weekend!!!

even just thinking about it i honestly want to cry! i just can't believe how 

fast this year went. 

i'm so excited for all our friends to come celebrate

morgan's birthday with us on saturday. 

okay, now to the chalkboard! 

i fell in love with all the birthday chalkboards

on pinterest. i instantly knew i had to do this for morgan's party. 

after looking into them i realized i did not want to 

pay the high prices on etsy {even though i LOVE etsy}.

so, i decided to make one. 

this was so easy to make. you can

make it any photo editing soft wear. i used picasa.

here is the chalkboard background i 

used. make sure you download

it as 20x30. just have fun with all the colors

and different fonts! 

i can't wait to pick this up from staples tomorrow!! 

at first i was just going to use this for the party

but now i want to frame it and put it in 

her room and hopefully do this again 

next year. 

49 weeks {our week in pictures}

forty-nine weeks!!

this isn't the best picture but its the first

one i have been able to take showing that

she has a second tooth coming in.

{our week in pictures}

who doesn't love starting the day off with pumpkin coffee 

topped off with a little whipped cream! :)

of coursed it rained on halloween so we 

didn't take morgan trick-or-treating this year.

but we did sit in the garage and pass out candy, she loved

seeing all the kids dressed up.

look how happy she is be at nordstrom :)

morgan loved being at barnes and nobles

as a parent i hate daylight savings!! 

her sleep schedule has been so screwed up. 

its getting really cold now. winter coats had to come out. :(

see you next week! 

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First Birthday Invites

with morgan's birthday party being 2 1/2 weeks away

i thought i would share her invite now that they

have all be sent out! 

i feel like everyone keeps asking me how old she is

when we are out in public and it feels odd saying

"she'll be ONE this month"!!

morgan's party doesn't have a theme so trying to figure

out what to do with an invite was a little complicated at first.

her party is a collection of everything pink and gold. 

{shocking its pink, i know}

after talking it over with my hubby for weeks on end

we finally decided we wanted a picture but not just one. 

we sat together and picked our favorite picture of her from 

each month. 

her invite is completely DIY.

i love being able to say "i made it".

it feels more personal. 

i created it with picmonkey.com.

i love this site! if you want a quick place to edit

pictures or make a collage this is the place for you! 

and here is the final product. 

i love it!!