Mr. ONE-derful First Birthday Party

Posted on July 24, 2019

I know. I can hardly believe it myself, but our third little man is officially ONE! We celebrated his first birthday at the end of June at our house over dinner with family. I wanted to keep things simple, so I decided to put up a few decorations and of course served the birthday boy up with a smash cake. Mainly as entertainment for the adults! Here are a few snapshots from his mini soiree, a Mr. ONE-derful First Birthday Party!

Ahh! I know it happens, but for some reason I thought it would be different the 3rd time around. But nope. I blinked and a year went by. You guys have been on this journey with me since the beginning. From our pregnancy announcement, to all of my bump-dates, his nursery progress, to the Nursery Reveal and then finally his birth announcement post!

We welcomed Winston on June 20, 2018 [which feels like yesterday, btw] and here we are now celebrating his first birthday!

A simple Mr. ONE-derful themed 1st birthday party in black, white and gold with touches of bowties and topped off with a crown.

It was just perfect for our little guy!

MR. ONE-DERFUL FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY DETAILS

Since it was a very small group of us celebrating, I knew I didn’t need to pull out all the stops, but still wanted to do a little decorating in honor of the birthday boy!

I put up a gold Mr. ONE-derful banner across the back sliding door and then added with this mini black bow-tie bunting to it. I put them up using my favorite mini clear command hooks. The same hooks I use for every birthday party banner! I almost ordered another package of the bowtie paper bunting to hang from the kitchen chandelier over the table, but didn’t think of it until later!

These would work great on a mantel, too!

I DIY’d a high-chair banner for Simon’s Safari themed first birthday party, but when I saw this darling black, white and gold “ONE” highchair banner, I decided it would be easier to just order it! I just don’t have as much time to craft & DIY as I used to. This banner was so well made and absolutely adorable!

I think $11 is a steal for all of the cutting and tying of ribbon I would’ve had to do. Plus, you’d have to buy all the different individual spools of ribbon.

Absolutely worth it in my opinion!!

I decided to opt out of a ton of balloon bouquets for this party, but still ordered a large metallic gold “1” balloon to have filled up. We normally do all of our balloons and grab any last minute decorations at Party City the morning of the party. He loved bopping the big balloon around!

His brothers always love having balloons to play with during birthday weekends, too.

We ordered a 6″ inch smash cake from our local Mariano’s with simple black and white stripes for Winston and then cupcakes for the rest of us. I added little gold and white flags leftover from my Galentine’s Day Party.

We had some minor issues with the order, so I ended up having to write on his little cake with frosting myself. The lettering was not neat, but he did not care ha!

I inserted this little “ONE” cake topper with a crown in his smash cake and this is the black Mr. ONE-derful T-shirt he wore up until it was time to eat his cake!!

We grilled steaks [with plenty of yummy apps and sides including my Spicy corn dip and stuffed mushrooms] and enjoyed the cupcakes for dessert, while Winston got to indulge in a cake all to himself. And he nearly devoured it all!

We could not stop laughing.

He showed zero emotion. He had no facial expression. In fact, he made one motion and one motion only. He lowered his arm down to grab cake and then lifted his arm up to slowly stuff it in his mouth!

I think we were all waiting for some big reaction, but he was as cool as a cucumber. As if he’d been diving into dessert on a regular basis!

I bet we snapped 100 pictures of him eating his cake.

Here are a few of my favorites 🙂

MR. ONE-DERFUL FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Although I still can’t wrap my head around the fact he’s one and oh, how I want time to slow down more than anything, it sure did make my mama heart happy to celebrate him anyways! Thanks for taking a peek at our little guy’s first birthday celebration!

It was simply ONE-derful! 😉

In case you missed any of the sources throughout the post, here they are below!:

Looking for more little boy birthday party ideas?

Here are a few of our other party posts from the past!

1st Birthday Partee
Safari Style Soiree 1st Birthday Party
Books & BBQ Birthday Party
ABC & 123 Birthday Party
20+ Birthday Party Theme Ideas

I owe you guys a ton of promised posts, but wanted to get this 1st birthday party post out before the holidays roll around ha! Not that I ever promise a post and sit on it for months 😉

The Laundry Room Reveal, Hilton Head recap, a beauty favorites post and more simple recipes are coming your way soon!