Yahoo! TATUM IS ONE! To celebrate her first year of life we invited friends over to play in the sand box, eat yummy "kid friendly" snacks, and enjoy the spring day. We decorated the back yard using First Birthday lanterns that I scored for free at a yard sale (actually the same yard sale is where I got the top I'm wearing at the party). I got sand crazy and purchased sand pails and shovels and decorated them with the kids' names.
We baked a banana birthday cake and presented it to Tatum - who had no idea what to do with it. We helped feed her, and she yummed her way through a bite or too. Next year we'll try carrot cake.
Tatum was presented with lots of generous gifts including a swing for the backyard, a pool, books, a baby doll, puzzles, a puppet, an activity station, building blocks, clothes and lots more. Tatum was so pooped by 3:30 that she crashed out before our last guests arrived. So Tatum missed out on the pinata, but the other tykes sure enjoyed it.
We are so thankful to have such great friends to celebrate with, and only wished that our family could be there as well! A special thanks to Sara for her decorating help and princess bedazzling of the crown; to Rhonda for helping prep all the food and providing an extra set of eyes and hands on Tatum; and finally to my dear husband who put on his bbq best and did a bang up job on the grill.
For more pictures of the party, visit Tatum's Flickr Photos and click on the set First Birthday - or view other sets too.
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happy birthday Tatum!! The party looked like a lot of fun! Can you believe a whole year has passed, er flown by??
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