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@Mrs. High Heels: Rice is abundant life, right?! Sounds like Jaren is in for a good future! Congrats on everything going great. I love how your string letters turned out!

I would be peeved about the last minute stuff. Actually, I AM peeved, kind of like @Smurfette: mentioned. I think guys just don't really get exactly how much planning it takes to pull off a bigger party. When we were wedding planning, DH thought I was crazy and way to stressed and trying to DIY too much stuff, but at our wedding and so many times after he's commented on how great it was, how there were so many personal things, etc. I had to remind him today that the birthday party is the same way. He wants to have a nice party, but just doesn't realize all the little things that go into it. If he were making the list of what needs to be done it would be like this:

1. Pick a cake from the ready made cakes at the grocery store. Maybe have them add names.
2. Buy ice cream.
3. Show up with the above.

If it weren't for my crazy planning, that party would end with everyone eating cake and ice cream with their hands. Hmmm...actually that sounds kind of awesome.

@Mrs. High Heels: J's party looks awesome! Well done mama and now you can relax. Men are an entirely different species I think. They have no idea how this party planning works or how detailed it is.

@Mrs. Blue: This would be my husband.... except no ice cream

So cute!

And yeah iF DH threw a party, there would be pizza and beer and he might forget to get cake lol

@Mrs. High Heels: Everything looks great!! The letters look so good. Every time I make them they don't look that good! Good idea with the Cheese-it's and Animal Crackers.
@Mrs. Blue: Sounds like my husbands idea for a party. I think he thinks I am crazy for all in doing, even though it isn't much, but like our wedding will say how great it looks.
@mole: yours looks so cute too! I want a cupcake!

This is making me so excited for R's party!

@Mrs. High Heels: So glad to hear your party went well!!!! J is soooooooo adorable!!! And that's awesome you had a photographer. I'm kind of hoping I can get one of my friends to take pictures at Xander's party. I can't wait to see the photos from J's party!!!! Yay!!!

@mole: Yay!!! So glad you had fun at the party! And those cupcakes look awesome!! What kind of frosting is that? And your son's stats are similar to Xander's in terms of crawling and standing! I'm glad mine wasn't the only slow poke to tackle those physical milestones!

@Mrs. High Heels: your party looks great! Those letters turned out amazing! I kind of wish we had been able to have a photographer - I got some good pics but not a whole lot of non-blurry ones!

@mole: looks like your party turned out great! Your cupcakes look delish and the favors are so cute! How do the kites work and were they difficult to make?

Our party was a lot of fun! It was so worth all the work but we will definitely not be doing anything of that scale for quite some time!!! We had about 30 people at our house. The food turned out really yummy and we have so many leftovers! I'm really happy with how all the decorations turned out even though I did scrap quite a few projects!

I think the biggest hits were the punch, mom's BBQ beef sliders, and the red velvet cake. Liam loved the strawberries I put on top of his cake - he was somewhat skeptical about the rest of it (he did eat a little of it though).

Here's some pics:

@Adira: the ones I used are from ikea! $1 each! Haha we used them at our wedding so they are being repurposed!

@dojo: wow your party looks amazing!!! love all the little details, and i agree that the IKEA display looks sooo cute!

@dojo: It turned out amazing!

@mole: That play area looks great. Love the favours.

@dojo: that cake looks delish!! Also I love your sign!!!

@Smurfette: Why am I not getting my reply e-mails?? Gahhh!!! It's photo paper, so it's thick, which I think is a big part of the problem. But still... you'd think glue would work!

@Adira: yeah I would think. Glue gun would work. Those things fix everything!

@Mrs. High Heels: I'm glad everything went well! J is such a cutie!

@mole: That play space looks amazing!!! I've never seen anything remotely that nice around here. Also, your picture is totally making me crave cupcakes right now!

@dojo: I love the Ikea picture frames! Random true story: there is no ikea here, but a little boutique shop down the street from me was selling these exact frames (plus some other ikea stuff) for some exorbitant sum...we always chuckle at what people were paying every time we walk by there. Also, love your color scheme...I might copy it for one of our future parties.

@Adira: I swear, old people think they can do and say whatever they want. You would think that generation would RSVP!

Random question! I'm planning on having about 25 guests and have ordered 36 cupcakes, which I'm assuming will be plenty. But two my guests are lactose intolerant, so I was going to make them dairy-free cupcakes when I make Xander's cake. Should I make 4 cupcakes, just in case they each want more than one?

@Smurfette: Okay, that's what I was thinking too. Maybe I'll just make enough batter for a full cake - make Xander's mini cake and then make however many cupcakes the rest of the batter makes!

@ALV91711: That makes sense! 4 it is!

Jealous you're going to have a chalkboard print!!! I wish we had done that, but his appointment isn't until a week after his party and now it's too late to try to get a chalkboard anyway, haha. Oh well!

@dojo: hahaha, yeah, I'm assuming I'll have left-overs too! But I think I'll just bring them to work the next day to get rid of them!

@cheert16: Oh, I think I posted on IG but didn't respond here. I LOVE that cupcake topper you made! It looks fantastic!!!

@ALV91711: @Smurfette: @AprilFool: @cheert16: @silver1: Thanks everyone! I am just happy that everything worked out.

@Adira: The cupcakes are red velvet, so the frosting is a cream cheese buttercream. It was actually really easy to make, and then I just piped it out.

@dojo: What great photos! The handkites are similar to these: http://www.etsy.com/listing/97337233/waldorf-hand-kite-rainbow
I didn't want any of the babies to be able to untie the ribbons, so I just secured each ribbon to itself with invisible thread. That was the hardest part of the whole project.

@cheert16: Wow, super cute!

@shopaholic: So I don't feel like working. Any of these work? Just looked for colorful party dresses.