The day of the party is here! I can't believe this little miss is almost one!
We skipped church today because the timing wasn't going to work out with naps and party, and while Zada napped snow started to fall!
Jon thought he should dress up for his Halloween daughter's party, but it's Sunday, and we didn't think about it ahead of time. He thought for a brief moment he should figure something out with his old wetsuit, and provided some entertainment in the acrobatics involved to get it on! He did quickly decide against a wetsuit based costume, and decided to just go casual.
While Zada took her second nap at Grandmere's house I got the smash cake area ready.
Finally, she was awake, everyone was there, and it was time!!
At first she was a little timid.
But slowly figured it out!
Though she dug in to the cake a decent amount, she wasn't as frenzied as I expected her to be, and I realized I should have just done a regular cream cheese frosting on the cake. I made swiss meringue buttercream and just flavored it with cheesecake flavor oil...I think this was a mistake. The frosting was quite hard in the cool October house, and the taste wasn't what a carrot cake frosting should be! I realize she didn't have anything to compare it to, but I would do that differently next time.
She stayed put really well, and looked super cute in her messy little witch dress. Eventually she realized she had a hat on and took it off.
Happy cake smash little Zada!
After a quick hose down to clean her up, it was dinner time!
Yummy chicken tortilla soup with all sorts of Mexican fixings and fruit and rolls.
I failed to get a picture of the dessert cakes with their cascading bats flying out of them. But Zada enjoyed being sung to!
I'm not sure one bit of dinner made it into her mouth after digging into a cake, but we had to try!
Leiden chose to do her skeleton costume and the half face again. She definitely got into the spirit of things! The other girls dressed up, too, but their costumes are cozy and casual.
Zada thought the pile of gifts was really most useful for practicing her mountaineering skills,
So we had to help her see that they had all sorts of fun things in them!
Grandma and Grandpa even sent a gift from Michigan!
All in all, it was a great party celebrating this little girl.
We love her so much and we were so happy to gather today in her honor. The real big day is coming up soon!!
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