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Okay so this is one of the longest posts I have ever done, but I loved this party so much that I took A TON of pictures and just had to share them! Last Saturday we celebrated Avery's 1st birthday, YAY! I ordered the invitations, banners, labels, table signs, and other decorations from Paper Follie, and Avery's birthday outfit from Christi Creations. It was a huge relief not to make all of it. They were both fabulous to work with and the products were even cuter than I imagined!
Here was the invite
The birthday girl on her special day!
This beehive door hanger welcomed everyone to the party
I had been wanting to do a candy buffet for some time, and figured now was my perfect chance. I had somewhat of a hard time finding a good selection of yellow and black candy, mostly from a few supply stores in Salt Lake and then a couple online. Here is the treat table. I had so much fun decorating it, just looking at it makes me smile!
Sugar cookies with fondant bee's 
Bumble Bee cake pops
Beehive cake and Bumble Bee smash cake
The beehive was 4 layers of vanilla cake iced in vanilla buttercream, covered with yellow fondant, and decorated with fondant bumble bees and flowers.
Smash cake was iced in yellow buttercream with black fondant stripes and sugar paper wings
Drinks and more treats
Popcorn cones
We didn't play any games, since it was Avery's birthday, I just had a simple craft for all the kids. They each made an antenna using a headband, pipe cleaners, and pom poms. They chose whatever colors they wanted and then I helped glue the pom poms on with the hot glue gun. 
They actually turned out pretty cute and all the kids really enjoyed them. They all started acting like little bumble bees and running around "making honey" and stinging all of the adults, it was kinda cute. Here is my little honey in her antennas...
Bring on the cake!
After a quick wash down it was time for Avery to open her presents. I must say that I was surprised how much she got into opening presents. I remember with Mason he was just so pooped that we all did it for him, this was much more fun.
For the party favors, I found empty honey bear bottles online and filled them with candy and put a cute little tag.
Some were filled with yellow m&m's for the older kids, and other were filled with cheerios for the little ones.
Here is a close up of the tags. One side had a bee and the other had a little thank you, so cute!
The after party: David finishing off the cake!
Avery says thanks to everyone for such a fun party and for all the great presents!
Two little monkey's jumpin on the bed....
I don't usually blog about cakes anymore, but I just had to add this one because I thought they turned out pretty cute and was super easy! So it was our neighbor's birthday yesterday and her hub wanted to do something Dr. Pepper themed because she is so addicted to it. I googled some Dr. Pepper cake recipes and found quite a few. I tried out two, one was much more moist and held together better. But after it baked, you couldn't taste the soda. So I think that I may yet try another recipe if I ever have to make something like this again, but they still tasted pretty yummy though!
First bake and cool your cupcakes as recipe follows. Next take your 12oz Soda cans and rinse them out. Then cut them in half. You can do this 2 ways. First I tried squishing the sides and cutting it, but when you pushed the sides back out it left some crinkles. So then I just poked a hole in the side and cut around, which worked much better in my opinion.
See the difference with the crinkled edges
After you cut the can in half, trim the edges nice and even. I also cut out the Dr. Pepper logo from the top half of the can.
Then I hot glued the logo to the can. 
Next, just drop your cupcake inside the can. It's the perfect fit! 
Then I just did a swirl on top of the cupcakes with the frosting. Trimmed down some straws and stuck them in the side and topped them off with a cherry! 
Straight or bent, I think I like the bent straw better! 
I also made some with out the cans for the little kids... 
When the kids got their cupcakes they tried sucking on the straw to drink the cupcakes, it was pretty cute!
I hope you enjoyed this post and let me know if you ever try these at home, I would love to hear about your results! Also if you love cupcakes as much as I do, then enter Utah Loves Cupcakes free cupcake giveaway, I sure did! But hurry because it ends tomorrow night...
