In a Waverly World: While I'm at it...

...procrastinating, that is. I figure it's about time to put some photos up from Waverly's birthday party. See, by this point, I would typically just say, "forget it" and put the photos in an album at my leisure; however, this blog is somewhat of a journal of Waverly's life that I want her to have access to some day. So, better late than never!

We really did have quite the bash. For a couple months I wrestled with the invites: Who do I invite? Friends? Family? Which then begged the question, Where are we going to have this shindig? If we have it at our house, it would have to be a short guest list, but if we have it elsewhere, we could probably invite more people. But if we invited more people, we'd have to pony up more money for snacks and favors. But if we only invited a few people, who would we have to leave out?

What a dilemma. And Waverly didn't care one bit. Rude.

Finally, I worked it all out: we would invite Waverly's Gymboree pals, her grandparents and aunts and uncles (obviously), and just a couple of mine and Chandler's friends. Still, it was 40 people.

My second major dilemma: What is the theme? Again, Waverly didn't care. I was sailing this ship solo.

Ultimately, I found the invitations I wanted; they were pink and yellow with her photo on them. The selection was called "pink lemonade". And I had my "theme": pink and yellow. We served pink lemonade, banana punch (yellow), decorated with pink, yellow, and white balloons, tissue paper puffs, and tablecloth. My MIL made the cake and cupcakes with lemonade powder sprinkled on top and the favors were small jars with either pink lemonade mix or yellow lemonade mix.

Yay! I made a lot of the decorations and bought the food over a period of time. Ultimately, I paid only about $150 for everything. I'm pretty pleased.

As the hostess, I was busy making sure everyone was taken care of, but I managed to snap a few photos. Fortunately, my SIL was able to help out and took photos as well.