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RavelryRhino’s First Birthday Party
We had Rhino's first birthday party at the Weasels' Den, which is such a great place for the kids! We rented a little barn-kind-of-place for 2 hours and Rhino was so ecstatic the whole time we were there! He had a blast crawling and cruising around the baby area, which is full of padded mats and castle pieces, mirrors, and giant building blocks. The Armstrongs (kids: Josh (5) and Aime (3) ) and the Kisers showed up for the festivities. We had pizza and pasta, chatted a bunch, and did presents and cupcakes.
Rhino received a gift certificate and cute card from the Kisers, a bunch of wonderful books in a pretty bag (Rhino loved the bag, hahah!) and an animal memory game from us. He was a little more interested in tearing the wrapping paper than he was for his little birthday celebration, but he was mostly interested in the ribbons and bag!
I wanted to make cupcakes again because it just seemed to make sense for Rhino to have his own little cupcake rather than a piece of cake or a mini cake just for him. I wanted everything to be colorful for him, so I wanted to make the cupcakes as colorful as possible, too. A few months ago I found a tutorial online for making pretty swirled cupcakes and had been waiting for an occasion to try it out. Thankfully the BX had a great assortment of paste food coloring! The technique is really very easy and turned out wonderfully! Our home just gets so warm that often the frosting would be too runny when it came out of the bag to make pretty, firm stars. Most of them looked pretty good, though! Rhino didn't care either way, he just gobbled his little cake up!
It was a nice, small first birthday party and Rhino seemed to really enjoy himself the whole time. He didn't get crabby at all and really likes being around Josh and Aime. The Armstrongs and Kisers are our best friends here at Misawa right now, so of course it's always nice for us to spend time with them, too!
On this day..
- Lasagna - 2011
- Rhino at Bible Study - 2008
- Tyler Visits Rhino - 2008
- Rhino's Belly Button! - 2008
Great job with the cupcakes! Sounds like he had a wonderful 1st birthday party. It’s hard to believe he’s already one!
I love the new blog theme too by the way!!!
Thank you very much, Jody! I know, the time has flown by so quickly. It was a fun little party.
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