Floral First Birthday Party

I can’t believe that I have a one-year-old!

I wanted to celebrate my beautiful, precious girl with a floral first birthday party.

 

We had such an amazing time with great food and an incredible environment filled with tons of flowers.

It was also an event that tried to support as many local businesses as possible!

My gift to Adalind was a painting that was done by Lexington Lettering.

It’s such a meaningful piece of art that I’m so excited to have in the house.

It was the perfect centerpiece in her floral first birthday party!

The flowers came from Bellaire Blooms.

I loved having local blooms to decorate with. They made the house smell amazing and were beautiful!

The Cookie Social made these adorably decorated cookies!

My Aunt made several of the sweets for the party. These flower cookie cups were made out of sugar cookies and filled with pistachio pudding, chocolate pudding, and lemon filling.

We had a ton of pudding left over that we had in bowls in case anyone wanted extra pudding.

My 3-year-old niece didn’t get the memo. So she kept licking the pudding out of the cookies and then threw them away. *shrugs* At least she was enjoying herself!

In addition to the cookie cups, she also made these cake pops.

They were funfetti flavored, and pretty much tasted like cookie dough. YUM!!!

Adalind’s GREAT GREAT Grandmother’s plates and teapots were used on the table.

It was such a special touch for the day that I loved getting to see.

A floral first birthday wouldn’t be complete without some floral cupcakes!

There wasn’t a cake (aside from the smash cake) so we had chocolate and vanilla cupcakes from Kroger.

Adalind’s smash cake was a funfetti cake with minimal icing.

Before it was time to blow out the candle, the cake was topped with a cute flower.

Her Aunt bought her a little plate that holds a candle that has roses on it that was swapped out when we started singing. PERFECT!

Favors were little rose shaped soaps in flower boxes. Such a fun touch!

Streamers and paper pom poms made a perfect photo booth area!

Everyone was able to take pictures and it was the perfect backdrop for when Adalind dug into her smash cake!

We had so much fun at her floral first birthday party!

The kids drew with chalk, played with bubbles and helped her set up several of her new toys.

 

Everything turned out more perfect than I could have planned for!

I hope this is helpful if you want to plan your own floral first birthday party!

Advice for New Parents

As a new parent, whether you’re researching what’s best for your bundle of joy or someone trying to be nice just tells you, you’re going to get a lot of data, opinions, and advice for new parents.

Most of the time the next person or article contradicts the first.

It’s cool to listen to people’s advice. Seriously, do it. Hear them out.

This is going to get you a lot of information that will help you decide what’s going to be best for YOUR KID.

While your mind is open, here’s my advice for new parents.

Traveling with Cloth Diapers

Part of me thought that I was being a little “extra” because I wanted to cloth diaper on a trip to the beach even though I love cloth diapering.

I haven’t used a disposable diaper since Adalind was 5 weeks old. I wouldn’t know where to begin buying her a pack of disposables, because I haven’t wanted or needed to. Plus, cloth diapers can be used as swim diapers. So traveling with cloth diapers to the beach meant that I didn’t have to buy disposables for land or water!

I’m an ambassador for LilHelper cloth diapers and thought that this would be the perfect opportunity for me to push through the intimidation of traveling with cloth diapers as well live out one of the things that I’m so passionate about.

It wasn’t as bad as I worked myself up to believe, but I did learn a lot and wanted to share some of that knowledge around traveling with cloth diapers.

Lessons I Learned From My Failed Marriage

When you’re at the altar saying “I Do,” you don’t plan for a failed marriage.

You make promises to each other in front of your closest family and friends.

Those promises mostly revolve around the idea that you’re going to be together forever.

But, unfortunately, promises are often broken and things fall apart.

I’m not giving a reflection on me as a person or as a wife.

However, when I look back on my marriage there are quite a few lessons that I’ve learned and think would be helpful to share.

Why I love and use Lil Helper Cloth Diapers

If you’ve read the other posts in the cloth diaper series, then you’ve had a chance to think through whether or not you’re interested in cloth diapering. Choosing which cloth diaper you want to do can be overwhelming. Lots of families like to get a variety of diapers and then try them all out before committing to one particular type. I started to do this until I found Lil Helper. I fell in love almost immediately. There are 3 main reasons that we love using Lil Helper diapers—

Diaper System and Quality

Customer and Community Service

Customer Engagement

Each of these are great stand alone reasons for us to choose to support Lil Helper and use their diapers. But all of these reasons together have helped me to become very passionate about cloth diapering and them as a company.