Throwing Our Baby Girl Her First Birthday Party!

Today we are celebrating our daughter's one-year-old birthday party, and like always, we waited till the last second, and we've got a lot to do today before 3 p.m. We've gotta get balloons, we've gotta get party supplies, wrap some presents, bake the birthday cake, and set up for the party, all the while making sure Lana stays entertained and happy while the kids are at school. She's only getting one nap today, which can be pretty scary sometimes, so let's hope this goes well. All right, it's 9.30, we just dropped off the kids at school, but it's freakin' weird, man. Jack's at school all day, Sunny's at school three times a week for three hours. It's not weird for Sunny to be in preschool. I feel like she's been talking since she was two, so she seems very ready for preschool, but Jack going to school full day is the weirdest thing for me. We drop him off at 9.30, he's done at 3.30. Honestly, he loves it, so I kind of love that for him. It's been good, but today is a busy day. Happy birthday a few days ago, Lana. Happy birthday, baby! We're a few days late on the birthday party, but between sickness, life chaos, traveling, it's okay. I don't think she'll remember that her one-year-old birthday was a few days later. But we're excited, got a little walker for her birthday. I meant we have a walker girl. She's walking on her one-year-old birthday. No, no, no, I'm saying she is a walker on her birthday. Party days are always so insane because we're just running around. For some reason, everything takes way longer than I think, but we're gonna get the list done. We're gonna split our responsibilities. Hopefully, it'll be ready in two or three hours, so I'm gonna do balloons, get the banner. I am in charge of making the cake. I'm kind of in charge of everything party related. Derek's kind of just the support, which is great because I need that on party day. It'll be good, but we gotta get a move on. We gotta get it all done. We have to keep Lana up a little longer today. Normally, she's going to bed at 9.30, but we gotta keep her up until 10.30. So, we want her to take just one long nap and then wake up for her party. And she seems to have found some of her birthday presents already. There's one present. There's another one. All right, operation keep Lana awake and happy. All right, gotta get ready for the day. So, I gotta make it quick. Feels so good to be home. We were constantly going places. It was so fun. We got really great quality time with the kids. Jack and Sunny have been playing together so well. Just makes me happy to be home. I'm trying out a freckle pen. Like, I've been loving it. It looks crazy when I first do it. And then I just do like a little. Tap it. Kind of just like cute little frecklies. Okay. Took me about 10 minutes. It's not bad. Could have been faster. Now, I'm just going to put my hair in a ponytail because I hate having my hair all up in my business. Okay, all done. I'm going to go get the balloons. You got mama's medal? Or whose medal is this? Whose is this? Oh, that's Jack's medal. Oh, that's cute. Hi. Where are you going? Is that medal kind of throwing off your balance? Okay, now we're going for the stairs. Okay, that's good. That's a good activity. If you take your eyes off this girl for a second, she's up the entire stairs. Yeah, she fast. Come here. There you go. Ready? Can you take a big step? Yeah. Good girl. Okay, I just got to the store. I just realized that I don't have anything to make the cakes. Like, I don't even have the cake pans because I was doing it at my mom's house last time when she helped me make the cake for Sunny's birthday. So, I need to buy cake pans, frosting, cake mix, all the things. I said from scratch, and I think I'm just going to go with the Betty Crocker, honestly. I think it'll just be so much easier. And then we can go shopping for all the other stuff while the balloons are getting blown up. I think I have everything. Hopefully, the balloons are done. So, I'm going to go check out all of this, grab the balloons, and then head to Walmart to grab the banner. So, success. And they're cute. I actually love the colors. I think it's cute for the puppy theme. Now, I just got to shove these into the car somehow. One of the balloons popped. Sad, but got them in there. All right, we just went for a little ride around the neighborhood. Went and saw the goats, the chickens. That was fun. And she is hanging. What do you see? Oh, your medal. Your medal. That's what you want. There. Sorry. That's so cool, Lana. So cool. Okay, Lana. Should we play on the bed for a little bit? You want to get tagged on the bed? Ready? One, two, three. Whoa, where are you going? Ready? One, two, three. Yeah! One, two, three. Rawr! Ooh. Rawr! Okay, okay. Man, I can't find the remote to close these blinds right now. It's so hot in here. Okay, we got some ice cream. I got the banner. I'm so excited to see it. Got some milky for Lana. Happy birthday, Lana. Last thing I have to get is drinks. I'm just going to get like a big jug of lemonade and water. And then I got to go set it up. It's about 11 in the morning. So I have a couple hours to make the cake. I actually am running out of time. So I got to pick it up. All right. She is ready for bed. You want some baba? Do you want some bada? Let's get some bada. I know, I know. Let's go. Let's go to bed. You want some baba? What are you going to do? Just change your diaper? Shh. And now we just hope she takes a really long nap. Otherwise she might be a little bit cranky at her party. All right. I got all this stuff and the cake is in the oven. We are literally down to like an hour and I don't think I'm making it, but I'm just going to get the balloons and the sign and everything set up right now while I have 18 minutes for the cake to cook. I'm going to put these on either side of the high chair and around the banner. Okay. It's 1215. Lana's been asleep for almost two hours now. Sunny's home from school. Sarah is setting up for everything at the spot where we're having the party. We're doing a little pool party. So we're having Sarah's family, my family, I think just Jack and Ken and our friends that live here with their kids. Pretty small party. Obviously Tanner and Lauren will be here, but they live in California now and that's a bummer, but that's all right. So there's a few things that I still got to get done. I need to wrap some gifts. I got to gather the kids' swim stuff. Oh, what else did she say to do? Oh, and then grab Jack's football stuff because we're going to have to go straight from the party to his football game. Okay. I can do all that. I'm going to wrap the presents now. Just never really got the art skills or the crafty skills I can say. All right. Oh, crap. Ow. Crap on the foot. That hurt. That looks good. I like that. Almost right. Hey. Aha. All right. I'm kind of impressed with myself. One done. Birthday cake, dog toy. Ruff, ruff, ruff. All you have to do is this, Dad. It's so easy. Do it, Dad. Okay. Yeah, that's all you have to do, Dad. That's it, huh? Yes. It's like not hard. There we go. That's better. Oh, frick. Oh, no. Now it's showing. Frick. Okay. How do you do this? That's what it usually is like. I need to take a class. Oh, my gosh, dude. Making my life a little easier here. I'm just gonna put these ones in a bag. Little shaker. Popcorn topper. She'll still be excited. Oh, that actually looks good. High five. That's all you have to do. You're so good at this stuff, sonny. I gotta go grab their swimsuits now. Try to be quiet, because Lana's asleep up here. Jack's first. Okay. Trunks. Oh, this is too small. Get Sonny's swimsuit. Sonny's swimsuit secured. What else, what else, what else? Okay, gotta grab Lana's swimsuit. All right. What is she gonna wear? What does she like? Oh, yeah. That's the one. And now, I think she's awake. Did I wake her up? Oh, frick. Shoot. She's awake. Okay. Oh. You slept pretty good. That was good. A pretty good nap. I think you'll be all right for your party. I realize that it's on me to get Lana's hair done right now. Oh, this is gonna be rough. Okay, we can do this. We can do this. I'm gonna do your hair. I got this. It's not that hard. I don't know how to do this. It's not that hard. Hey. Ready? Okay, Lana, I'm gonna try pigtails. That's all I really got. I just don't really know how to get the part. Oh, what is going on? Here, can she have a fruit snack? Only one. Okay, give her one. Daddy will do whatever it takes right now. Yeah. Okay. Can you sit? And then this just kind of all hangs back here. Good girl. Okay, Lana, almost done. Sorry. Sorry, sorry. Okay, done. Done. Yay. I kind of did it. Mama's gonna be so proud of me. All right, at this point, it's 2 p.m. and we've got about an hour or so to go to the party. But I've gotta give a special shout out to Sarah for always doing the hard work with these birthdays. She's so good at planning them. She finds all the materials and supplies. She bakes the cakes and always just puts in so much thought and effort to these parties. I'm honestly not very good at it and I'm glad that she really enjoys doing it. So it works out. But well done again, Sarah. Mom! Hi, it's good. Can you come help me? Are you using my foot? Yes. Ha ha ha ha. Wow. It looks so cute. Got 30 minutes until the party. We just brought up a little bounce house that we used for Jack's birthday. And we're gonna set that up right here so the kids can do that or swim if they want. Some new developments in the Beeston house as of yesterday. Sunny girl is riding Jack's bike. Go girl! Yeah, Sunny! Let's go! She's been riding a balance bike for like a year now. It has looked really comfortable on it. So she is a level two rider. Go Sunny! Woo! Yeah, sis. Yeah. You're right, I forgot to put on my handitizer. We gotta go get school, bleh. We gotta go get Jack from school right now. We're gonna check him out a little early so we can go to Lana's birthday party. Does that sound good? Yeah, it's soggy though. Okay, let's go get him. Come on. I know. All right, we got Jack. We made it to the party. You guys ready to go in? Sunny, you ready? Yeah. Let's go! Okay, we did it. Here's the cake. You killed that, good job! It's so funny. That looks really good. It's like an hour. If it's the thing, it works. Look at that. Lana, cake! Later. I think it actually would have been better to move it down farther so it's not as loud. Happy birthday, dear Lana. Happy birthday to you. Oh, thanks Jack. Good morning. That was an amazing birthday. We had to leave to get to Jack's football game so we were not able to do presents. Let's open our presents right now. Look, can you open it? Good girl. That's what we got her. Good girl. That's for mama and dada. Lana, next one. What's that, sweetheart? Look, a froggie. Aw, I love these. That's cute because she doesn't have anything for fall. That's so cute. Look at her. She loves it. Daddy wrapped this one, if you can't tell. Couldn't tell, could not tell. Look, it's a puppy. Birthday cake puppy. Big cat. Aw, you love that too. This is the big one. Okay, she just wants puppy cake. Yay, aw. Open, Lana, open. Oh, what is it, Lana? A bike. Go, Lana, go. She'll get used to it. See, look. She's already getting it. Ooh, good job. Happy birthday, Lana. Happy birthday, baby. Bye-bye.