Kaleb's Monster Party - First Birthday Party Revealed

I would like to take a moment to mourn the loss of the days of my son officially being a baby. My baby boy has turned one and is no longer my baby. This birthday party marked the transition of my little boy becoming a toddler. I know I’m being silly, but you know I think I’m allowed to be silly from time to time.  He is now a toddler!

Ok. My sad boo who rant over.

My Baby is One! Yay.

When I first starting thinking about my son’s birthday party the first thing that came to mind was that I didn’t want this party to be over the top. There wasn’t really going to be many children at this party and I knew deep down that it would be all in vain. So the theme of the party was sweet simple and visually appealing for photos. I believe I pulled it off. Due to the results of this party I have been hired out by my niece to decorate her sweet sixteen party next February (don’t even want to think about her being that old).

This party marked not only the changes that may little man has mad over the last year, but marketed the growth of his momma. That's right after witnessing what accomplishments could be made by trusting your friends and relinquishing control over everything. I had help from friends on this party. So I have to thank Amanda and Jessica. I love you both!

Decorations! Yay I had a lot of fun getting ides for and making all the decorations. I took several different ideas that I found and kind of meshed them all together. My lovely Amanda did an amazing job on our front door to Kaleb's birthday party. She seems to think that she doesn't "craft" well, but she did an amazing job here. Be proud Amanda, be proud.

I saw a lot of different adorable ideas for kids goodies to give away at the party, but since we were going with a pool party option I thought beach balls would be a great option. I also went with an alternative of bubbles as well because face it who doesn't love bubbles.

 There were several different birthday banner ideas that I loved, but I found that I wanted to combine the standard triangle banner with monster puff balls. I have to say the puff monsters were so easy to make and were super cute! It would be a fun project to take on when Kaleb gets a little bigger.

I decided to follow up the triangle monster banner with a timeline banner that is made up pictures of Kaleb. It was a great way to show how much he has grown. Sniff Sniff. This was a big hit at the party, and I apparently take a lot of pictures of my son. 

We attempted to have a photo booth area for people to take silly pictures with Kaleb. It turned out really well I think with these super easy monster fans. However; overall it didn't turn out as well as we hoped.  Well it wasn't used like we hoped. I only had one picture taken and it was blurry due to host error in setting up the camera?! Fail. It did make for a cute seating area and care seat resting spot. 

I stumbled across this idea of decorating your French doors and giant legos. I couldn't resist. I have to say for something that was so easy it really made a big impact on the décor. Who knew? Plastic table covers and paper plates are great decorations. 

On to the Food! One word people. ADORABLE!



My girl Jessica did an amazing job at making Kaleb's smash cake. I say that she makes adorable monster's wouldn't you say.

I love food, and I love to cook. However; when it comes to parties I always seem to run out of time. So this year I decided to outsource some of my work. We semi catered this party to Cardenas where we bought makings for our taco bar.





Since our son had his adorable monster cake we had a desert bar for everyone else.

Cookies, Brownies and Cupcakes people! I found the most delicious recipe for Dark Chocolate Cupcakes and super addictive peanut butter frosting (post will follow as soon hopefully). I'm a huge fan of cake and frosting, but I don't like mine sweet so this was the perfect frosting possible. Just think peanut butter cup.

Overall I had a wonderful time preparing for this party and am looking forward to more parties and family fun!