Come and gONE....

I knew from the beginning that when I had the opportunity to plan my child's first birthday, I was going to plan!  The idea of ladybugs came to mind thanks to my amazing sister who calls me ladybug.  She says that although a lady I sure can bug! I had ten months of planning this ladybug first birthday and I had a blast every minute of it.  And, sure enough as I knew it would happen, it was Come and gONE before I knew it...
Here is my little ladybug's 1st birthday... enjoy :)

I bought these invites at Target and added the ribbon and mini ladybug stamp (from etsy.com)

Center pieces were formula cans that I saved.  I spray painted them, added ribbon (ladybug ribbon was purchased at Costco) and fresh flowers.  I placed green water foam in the cans to help the flowers stay fresh longer.  These also served as favors for guests to take home...

 The final set up before guests arrived.....

Setting up was a lot of fun and work! A big thank you to my nephew Brandon who did all of the balloon  work...

This was one of the food tables.  I found these food tents at our local swap meet and added the felt ladybugs around them...

The banner was one of my favorite projects.  I incorporated the polka dots and the red, black and white color scheme.  If you look closely, the stamp I used for the invites, was also used on the banner. 

I made this board with some of my daughter's first.  Guests really enjoyed looking through all the pictures...

This was my daughter's seating area.  Her portrait was a hit...

This is a close up of her high chair.  I had left over tule and felt ladybugs and at the last minute thought about decorating her chair...

The goodie bags were sown together by my husband.  We had black for boys and red for girls.  Theses were also a hit because the bags are reusable!

For our outfits, my daughter had an embroidered onesie (made by a co-worker) with her name, a number 1 and ladybugs, her tutu and we all wore red Toms.  I had a ladybug shirt made for myself and another for my husband that had a ladybug picture and said, "Real Men Love Ladybugs" these were made by my husbands co-worker.

Daddy's girl....

The two tiered cake was surrounded with flowers and ladybugs.  It was delicious.  I purchased this at Sing Long Bakery in Santa Ana, Ca.

One of the entertainment activities was pony rides... nothing to do with ladybugs, but the kids had so much fun...

I hope you enjoyed. It was such an amazing journey to plan and couldn't believe how quickly it had come and gONE.