The Heumann Experience: Elese's 1st Birthday

Now I do realize that her birthday was in December but that was before I started my blog. After posting Max's Birthday pictures I wanted to post Elese's too and I'm just getting around to it. Elese is my little Princess so of course she had a Princess Birthday Party. We started with a tea party. I didn't want to deal with all the tea bags and stuff for a 1 year olds birthday party so we had Russian Tea (basically Wasel), cucumber sandwiches, pigs in a blanket (cut in bite size pieces), Ham sandwiches, a relish plate, fruit with dip and little cookies.

If you have never made your own cake pan I highly suggest it. My mom has done this for years and it works great!!! If you can draw it on a poster board then you can make it into a cake. 1st, Draw any picture (not too complicated) on a poster board, this becomes the bottom of the pan. Then you use tin foil to make the edges by folding it down, leaving about an inch at the bottom. Then you tape the extra inch to the bottom of the poster board and fold up the sides to make the edges of the pan. Here is how Elese's cake turned out.

These were the cupcakes we had for our guests.

We had crowns for the boys and tiaras for the girls.

Being that this was Elese's first birthday it was really more for her cousins than for her so she just played whiled the cousins played the games.

For the first game we assigned all of the "Princes" a "Princess". Steven then took the "Princes" into the other room and told them a story about how an evil dragon kidnapped their "Princesses" and that they needed to rescue them. Meanwhile all of the girls were hiding throughout the house. The boys all rescued the princesses.

Next we played Kiss the Frog (Pin the tail on the Donkey) . We would blind fold one girl, put lipstick on her and have her kiss the frog. They loved it!!! My sister-in-law Laurie even wanted to play. My other sister-in-law stood infront of the frog with Laurie's son so she kissed him instead of the frog, it was very cute.