It's a Ladybug Birthday

Landen is ONE! I cannot believe how the past year has flown by. It seems like just yesterday we were in the hospital meeting our beautiful little girl for the first time. Now she's walking, talking and getting into everything! 


This summer I took on preparing a proper ladybug themed first birthday party for my precious little girl. It all started when we bought a book for her around Christmas titled Ladybug Girl Dresses Up by David Soman and Jacky Davis. Ever since then we started calling her 'Ladybug Girl'. It just seemed natural to have a ladybug theme for her first birthday. 


Had I not been off all summer, I can't say that I would have gone to the same extent in my decorating; however, I had a lot of time to think about, prepare and shop for my decor. So here we go....

Here are some ladybug oreos along with black and red "milk chocolate gems" a.k.a. M&M's, mini oreos, and red licorice to accent the black and red theme. The ladybug bowls were found at Meijer this spring. I also picked up some roses for some extra red decor around the kitchen.

This is the beautiful cake I ordered from ele cake co. located in Beaverdam, OH. 

My mother-in-law found these little ceramic ladybug salt and pepper shakers which I used as decor on our kitchen shelves.

I found these ladybug napkins on ezpartyzone.com. I ordered them on Sunday and received them by Wednesday - quick shipping!

I also made six of these tissue paper puff balls for random decor around the house. Three were red, two were white with black dots and one was white with red dots. These were possibly my favorite part of the decorations.

I picked up a couple of bouquets of red, black and polka dotted balloons from Celebrations in town and anchored them with ladybug ceramic pots. I painted these pots red, glued black fuzzy dots, antlers and eyes to them. 

For this birthday sign, I painted letters on regular paper, glued them onto the red construction paper and strung them up on a thin wire. 

Here are Landen's gifts from mommy and daddy. I just had to keep the red, black and white theme in my wrapping! 

I decked out Landen's highchair with some tulle and wrapped her chair in part of a tablecloth so we wouldn't stain the material with cake and icing.

Landen didn't have much of an attention span for opening her gifts, but she got some great stuff from everyone. She's had a great time today trying out all of her new toys. Mommy's equally (if not more) excited for some new things to keep her busy for the rest of the summer!

After presents Landen was able to dig in to her cake. She's had some tastes of sweets here and there this summer, so we knew she was going to love all of that icing and cake. She actually didn't get too crazy smashing her cake, but she was trying to savor every sweet bit of that icing in her mouth. :) I think someone has a sweet tooth.

Later in the night after most had gone home, our little ladybug was still on her sugar high. She finally crashed around 9pm and didn't wake up until almost 8am. She was a worn out little girl!

I have to say that the day was an entirely enjoyable one. It wouldn't have been as great without all of the family and friends involved in celebrating our little one. She is blessed to have such wonderful people in her life.