Briar Bear Turns One

Briar is ONE!!! How quickly the year went and we are just so smitten with this little guy! We gave him the nickname, “Briar Bear” when he was just a month old, so of course we had to give him a party to fit his name!

This party was so easy and SO fun to throw! We kept it simple with a cake table, and a balloon garland wall behind his highchair. The party was at 10 in the morning so we had quiche, fruit, and donuts. Just a few family and friends came, and this to date was my most low-key and fun party I’ve thrown. (quite a difference from Adelyn’s first birthday when I basically invited everyone and their mom…) While I love to get creative with parties there is nothing fun about being exhausted or spread thin the day of the party. If I can suggest anything when throwing your child a birthday party is to KEEP IT SIMPLE! You will be thanking yourself later when you look back and see you actually got to take it all in and enjoy the day rather than frantically obsessing about every detail.

It was the best day celebrating him with lots of balloons and cake! He woke up to a crib full of balloons & party hats, and continued the day with lots of yummy food & his fav song, “Baby Shark”, on repeat.

Ok. Let’s get into the details! I knew I wanted to do a balloon garland behind his highchair and decided to do the “one” in moss to go with the forest-bear-bee-kind-of-theme. I bought the wooden letters from Hobby Lobby, and adhesive spray glue along with live moss from their floral section. I would just spray a little glue and then add moss until all the wood was covered. I made the balloon garland from a kit on Amazon using balloons from Sweet Lu Lu. The highchair garland was a few fern leaves tied together using fishing line.

On the cake table, I kept it simple with our Letterfolk letter board, the most beautiful cakes made by my friend, Mel, the little honey jars for favors, and bear honey containers filled with chocolate milk. The cakes were hands-down the best part of the party as they were made in a bee-hive shape, with honey ganache frosting, and a honey swirl cake. It tasted incredible and Briar seemed to agree as well.

God blessed us big with you Briar. You have completed our family and we can’t imagine it without you. We love you our sweet, sweet boy!

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