He's our "Rookie of the Year"

Celebrating Everett's very First Birthday Party was so surreal. I can't believe we have a one year old. I had been scouring Pintrest looking for a cute first birthday theme and came across "Rookie of the Year." Drew and I are both fans of baseball and although I wasn't going for a baseball theme necessarily, I figured there can only be one "rookie year." For the past month I was planning things for the party and with some days full of crafting and a few productive hours at Hobby Lobby with Aunt Tammy the party began to come to life.

I created the invitation to look like an Baseball card including all of Everett's stats on the back. We had the party at Nana's house and invited family and friends to help us celebrate his first birthday. Friday Neeley and I put the babies down for naps and worked for hours putting up decorations, Aunt Tammy baked all the cupcakes and Everett's birthday cake and iced them all Saturday morning.

We set up 4 tables in the living room with red and white striped tablecloths. Each table had a different pennant in a tin of peanuts, just like you would find at the ballpark! Also just like at the ball park we had old fashioned Cracker Jacks, Sunflower seeds, and of course Big League Chew.

One of my favorite thins I had done for the party was Everett's First Birthday board. I found a design I liked on Etsy and had it printed on a poster board at Walgreen's. I loved the way it turned out and is now a keepsake for Everett for forever!

Over the mantle in the formal living room I strung up "12 months" of Everett pictures from our monthly photo sessions. People really enjoyed looking at his growth over the months in these pictures.

 

Everett was spoiled with lots of toys and lots of adorable clothes! I had asked for shorts specifically in looking forward to summer and was rewarded with some precious pairs! Everett also received his first Texas Rangers jersey which we will be anxious to put him in! 

We served Hot Dogs for lunch and offered a variety of cupcakes along with home made Rice Krispie Baseball Treats for dessert. Everett however got his very own birthday cake made special by his Mimi.  Everett was a little tentative to dig into his cake at first but once he got going there was no stopping him!

This sweet baby loved his cake! And might have suffered a bit of a sugar high!

We were so thankful to everyone who came to celebrate with us and especially all the family who helped make me prepare for it! You only have a first birthday once right?! I kept saying to myself, "the things you do for your kids" as I was going overboard for his party but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way! Everett is worth celebrating in every sense of the word and that's just what we did!!