Owlet Party!

Our little Owlet, Aria, turned 1 last week, but we had her birthday party just this past Saturday.

It was such a joy to have our family up to celebrate this beautiful little girl!

My inspiration for the owl themed party started with these little cupcakes right here.  I saw them in my Family Fun magazine and wanted to make them for her party.

Sam was showing us her ostrich impression, which isn't an owl, but is still a bird.  I appreciate her enthusiasm!

Even our lovely guests got into the owl theme and bought Aria some wonderful owl presents.  I guess she's going to like owls now!

Aria loves her granny and grandma!

From there, our owl theme expanded and grew into...

a pinata,

owl barrets for the girls and a finger puppet for Finn,

stuffed owl party favors,

and owl party bags.

In the party bags and pinata we had Tootsie Roll pops, because the wise old owl always asks, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?".

Pugsley needed a party and sun break

Other snacks included chips, yogurt and chocolate covered pretzels and pretzel M&M's.  BBQ chef Brad was cooking up hot dogs, turkey dogs, polish sausage, hamburgers and turkey burgers to perfection.  We had plenty of drinks and delicious fruit salad.  Yummy!  I definitely wasn't counting my weight watcher's points that day.

Present time!

       

Cousin Love

Water fun!

 

I had a lot of fun planning for the party and making all the favors and decorations.  I can honestly say, though, that I am happy to finally have had the party, had a lot of fun and not have to do anymore party preparations until the next birthday.

I moved some of Aria's party decorations into her room to enjoy longer.  See the pompoms? I just couldn't bring myself to thrown it all away, yet.

Happy first year, owlet Aria!