Lukes Nautical 1st Birthday Party!

This past Saturday was Luke's 1st Birthday Party.
When I was pregnant with him, we didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl, but I knew that if I was having a boy, that I wanted him to have a Nautical/Sailboat 1st Birthday Party!

Here is the invite that I made that features Luke each month for the first year of his life:

{Invite available in my Etsy shop}
For the girls, I also made them 12 picture 1st birthday invites. I love seeing how they grow each year I just coordinate the invite to match the colors/theme of the party.

I took a few pics of Luke the morning of his party so that I could some photos of him in his party outfit before he got it all dirty :)

{Luke's shirt made by my friend Melissa}

Baby Toms. I couldn't resist.

 They were just too perfect for the whole nautical theme. Too cute!
Kevin told me I had to keep this party small & just have family and a few friends.

I kept the tables simple.

Just some flowers & these cute containers from the Target Dollar Spot (that I bought last summer when I was pregnant) 

  I had chips in the containers for people to snack on.

We mostly had older kids at the party, so it was a swim party.

We also had corn hole for people to play:

I served dinner at the party, but kept it simple, since I was feeding over 40 people.

I tied a life saver around the utensials. Cute decoration & an after dinner mint! Win-Win :)

For Decorations, I hung up some red/blue lanterns & pinwheels inside:

I also made some bunting out of scrapbook paper:

 I had the pinwheels hanging over the dessert table.

Across the window, I strung photos of Luke from newborn to his 1st birthday.

Close up of the dessert table. You know me. I LOOOOVE a dessert table.

Cupcake Toppers I made to on on delicious fruit puffs. {Recipe here}

Red Velvet Bundtini's

Cupcakes:

I got the cupcake toppers {HERE}

Red Velvet Cupcakes:

The cake:

Usually my mother in law makes the cake for my kids birthday parties, but they were on a cruise, so I had a local bakery make it.

I think it turned out pretty cute! And, it tasted good also!

Luke's little smash cake:

Favors:

My favorite type of favor is giving out favor cookies! Much better than a bunch of random junk :)

For Luke's party, I also had a little candy station set up so people could bring home a goodie bag of candy also. I love candy :)

More bunting that I made from scrapbook paper:

 I got the oar on clearance here.

The Red "L" is from Luke's nursery.

Hat from {here} Bib from {here}

{1 Banner made by my friend Heather}

The best part of the 1st Birthday....Cake time!

It's safe to say he liked it :)

Me & the Birthday boy:

{And my awesome sailboat shorts I got on clearance here}!)

Happy 1st Birthday, Luke!

Hope you had as much fun at your party as we did!