baseball party

since we did a baseball nursery for ben,

we decided to have that be the theme for his

1st birthday.

the invitation

decorations and details

sign sending people to the backyard

happy birthday banner

it's hard to get a good picture because it was so long!

i alternated pictures of him at each month 

and the letters of happy birthday

the food

home plate cake

i set up a concession stand out of 

two windows in our porch

the desserts

i made the cake pops, cake and chocolate marshmallows

the cookies are from just-iced on etsy

the ballpark concessions

the cotton candy cones were a big hit...

but the hot dog vendor made the party!

i am one banner

games

pin the ball on the bat

perfect pitch

(try to throw 4 balls through the hoop)

pinata

party favors

bats and assorted balls

his shirt says BEN

and then around the ball says "i am one" & "birthday boy"

i ordered it from my personalized tshirt on etsy

she also made the custom shirts from ben's birth announcement.

it was very rainy all day so i didn't get to decorate the yard as much as i would've liked.  but it didn't rain during the party so i'm not complaining!

a couple ideas that i didn't do:

*vases with dirty baseballs and a ribbon around

*play a baseball game and have t-shirts made up

*a scoreboard made to look like the one at wrigley field

*have all the guests sign a baseball