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Sabrinah turned one on Saturday,  technically at 6.45pm!    All week Sabrinah has been very unsettled,  not going down to sleep easily, very clingy and dribbling galore.  And she was a little grumpy the day of her birthday too.  She didnt crack to much of a smile nor did she want to show anyone her walking skills mind you she was cuddled alot during her party but at the end of the day inside she did a little bit,  all this past week she has just about mastered walking most of the time,  she is about 70% walking and attempts to walk first before crawling most time but she can manage to walk between rooms now so I guess you could say she is walking.

Her party was a huge success,  I am really happy with how it turned out.  The jumping castle was awesome and I’m so glad we got it!   It’s from www.jumpfirst.com.au.

Sabrinah’s cupcake outfit is from www.ollierose.com.au although you cant see it much in the photos, I’ll do a proper shoot with her in it soon.  It fit well with the Sweet Shoppe theme and my sweet shoppe I was so happy with,  my backdrop stand came in handy as did some bright curtains that my mum had!

I absolutely adored Sabrinah’s cake,  I went with a cupcake stacker and it was so much easier as far as dishing up,  just handing cupcakes out – so quick and easy!   The cake was made by a mum I know from kindy who also sends her kids to the new school my kids are at.   Only a month ago at a birthday party our kids were at I found out she is a cake decorator and runs her business from home!    So I thought I’d see if she was up for the challenge of making Sabrinah’s cake,  she was and my goodness she did an AWESOME job!   An absolutely impressive cake.  Thanks so much Stephanie.  You can find more about Stephanie at http://slice-of-heaven-cakes.ch1.com.au/

The party bags,  tablecloths, stripe table runner is from www.thepartyparlour.com.au    and the little cupcake photo holders are from a seller on etsy who lives in Israel http://www.etsy.com/shop/shimrita  she was awesome and rushed through to get this done and shipped to me and they arrived the day before Sabrinah’s party!!

Here are a few photos from the party.

The jumping castle is one of the larger size ones,  its has a jumping area then a large horse head and its mouth open and closes which the kids climb up into and the other size is a wobbly floor, what happens is the floor goes soft for a couple of minutes and then it stiffens up so the kids can bounce.  As the floor stiffens the horse head stiffens and its mouth closes and lifts the kids up and closes the enterance to the mouth and they can slide out the other side into the wobbly floor and when the wobbly floor is softer the next lot of kids can climb into the horses mouth.   Scroll down and you will see what I mean   Here are 2 of my kids seconds after the jumping castle going up!

My 5yr old Carlie in the wobbly floor section.

Sabrinah’s Sweet Shoppe table

The main table where guests will sit and chat, right behind me is the jumping castle a couple of metres away.

And a close up of the cupcake photo holder.

The sweet shoppe table had 2 jars of biscuits the kids decorated, here is one of my daughters  Tayla’s (almost 9yrs) designs.   They are just iced milk arrowroot biscuits.  I also made biscuits in cupcake shapes I decorated for each childs party bag. 

Jellybelly butter flavoured popcorn…my fave!  And some of the party bags,  I had pink and green.   The girls had hairbows from etsy.com, a small box of jellybelly jellybeans and a cupcake cookie I made and decorated, the boys had a toy or light up pen instead of bows.

The kids at the sweet shoppe and Carlie posing with the balloons!

Here is the horse head I was telling you about,  its so hard to photograph in the castle,  so many colours causing the kids to be orangey lol.   The wobbly floor was soft so they horses mouth would open easy, as the floor stiffens the bottom of the horses mouth lifts up.  My almost 3yr old is jumping in front and my nephew Daniel is on the horses mouth with Carlie’s friend Jai.

Groovy Sabrinah

The lolly theme cake!   Great work Stephanie, thanks so much!

Sabrinah not too sure what to think with people singing happy birthday to her

She decides to chill out while we finish singing.

Sussing out whats in  front of her

Taste test

Bugger the fingers!

And here’s one of the cupcake cookies I made and decorated for each party bag.

It was such a lovely day and my first kids party at home that I’ve held outside,  I’ve always decorated inside and held the parties indoors but since our verandah is up and Rhys did some paving xmas eve I thought why not have it outside and get a jumping castle to amuse the kids,  it was a warm day but the kids didnt mind, its not everyday you get to go on a jumping castle!  Definately will have one again though,  best money spent on a party!  We had the jumping castle for 6 hours absolutely work every cent!

I hope you enjoyed looking at her party photos,  I love party planning for kids parties!