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Ah, Honey Honey


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Hi! It’s me! Remember me? It’s been almost 7 months since I’ve updated my blog. I wasn’t sure if/when I would ever get back to it. But I miss documenting everything and sharing more than the snippets I share on Instagram. I’ve stated multiple times that I have a hard time finding motivation to blog. But I’m hoping that once I get back to it, I’ll start enjoying it again.

Anyway, I have missed sharing numerous things over the past 6+ months so I’ll probably attempt to do some quick “catch up” posts- starting with Primrose’s birthday party…that happened 3 months ago. So if you were hoping to hear more details about the party, I’ll try to quickly share how we threw it all together so that it’s not an overly wordy post.

I’m sure it’s a repeat story for a lot of you, but for anyone who hasn’t been around for the past year, I’ll just briefly share a little backstory. My best friend, Maggi, and I both had our baby girls on the same day, February 20th, 2018. Our due dates were 2 days apart and we had spent 9 months dreaming of our babies sharing a birthday. We were both about a week overdue when Maggi went into labor. She had her sweet daughter, Sylvia, at the beginning of the 20th. My labor began around 3:45 that day and Primrose was born around 9:00 that night (in the same hospital!) If you want to hear the full birth story, like how I labored in Maggi’s room until I was about 9cm, then you can read that HERE.

Anyway, on to the party! When our girls were tiny, I mentioned that it would be fun to do a joint first birthday party. Thankfully Maggi agreed to it! So we started tossing ideas around when the girls were only about 6 months old. She suggested a honey theme and I absolutely love how “sweet” the party turned out. I feel like there are so many different directions you can go with a honey theme.

 

Food

So let’s talk food! I’ll link recipes as I’m able. We kept it budget friendly and decided to skip the meal and only serve dessert. Taking inspiration from The Baked Bear (one of my favorite places for dessert in St. Louis,) we made homemade ice cream sandwiches. Maggi and I each made 2 types of cookies. We had Chocolate chip cookies, Chocolate chocolate chip cookies, gooey butter cake cookies, and funfetti cookies.

Then we just had a tub of chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream. Everyone was able to pick their cookies and ice cream to create their own ice cream sandwiches. We kept it really simple but it would also be fun to include options for toppings- like sprinkles, chocolate syrup, crushed oreos, whipped cream, etc. Just be sure to have bowls and spoons on hand because it can get messy!

 

We also had a donut hole “hive” with the sugar bees (we got them from Hobby Lobby but here is something similar from Amazon,) gingerbread honey bears, honeycomb marshmallow treats, and this surprisingly addictive honeycomb churro crunch.

 

 

Decorations

Now moving right along to the decorations. The honey bears were collected from friends and family in the months before the party. Maggi spray painted them gold and then we just used them as vases for some small sprigs of baby’s breath and eucalyptus leaves.

The balloon arch was quickly put together about 1.5 hours before the party started! I bought this balloon arch “tape” back in August for Liam’s birthday and it has been well worth the $7! I usually just pick up some packs of balloons from Walmart or Hobby Lobby. I blow up a bunch of balloons in a few different colors and then start pulling them through the holes on the strip. I use command hooks and string to hang it to the wall. Then I tie off the end of the roll and hide it within the balloon arch. I’m able to reuse it over and over this way.

It’s an easy and inexpensive decoration that is so fun! The arch stays looking nice for a while, so you can put it together the day before the party (I don’t recommend doing it an hour and a half before the party starts, like we did haha.) And to prevent light headedness, I recommend a balloon pump or finding a few friends to help you blow up balloons.


The lettering on the wall and on the highchairs was just created with printed stencils and gold glitter poster board.

The letter board is from Letterfolk. We really only decorated this one area and I think I explained everything. But if you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask!

 


Maggi’s mom made the most adorable bee hive smash cakes. A little helpful hint, if you add bees to your cake, remove the bees before giving the cake to your child. Both girls went straight for the bees haha. So they were promptly removed to prevent choking.

I was convinced that Primrose would hate the mess but she actually ended up loving it and going in for it, face first. It was the perfect messy cake smash that I was hoping for! 


 

 

I’m so thankful for these two girls and adore the sweet memories that have been created. Such a sweet first birthday party for the sweetest “twin” bffs! If you have any more questions about the party, ask in the comments and I’ll try to respond ASAP! Thank you for reading and I hope to be back soon!!

Felt flower headbands: Fancy Free Finery

Tutu Dresses: Old Navy

Party Crowns: Little Blue Olive

Ruffle dresses: Vintage

Photos by me and my friend (and also Maggi’s sister,) Mayci Loving

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The First Month


I know this space has kind of been neglected lately, but I’m hoping to get back to updating more frequently. I’m not feeling quite as zombie-like anymore now that Primrose is sleeping through the night. And we have some big (to us) news that I’ll share in a couple of weeks that will hopefully allow more time for measasaq to blog.

There are a few subjects that people have asked me to write about–and I plan to get to those over the next few weeks/months. But I have a couple of catch-up posts that I want to get to first…starting with a quick picture post of Primrose’s first month.

It’s definitely not the easiest task, but these sibling pictures are my favorite. This was the first group shot I got of all the kids. I hope that years down the road, they recreate these photos for me.

Baby’s first Target outing–which always deserves documentation. The verdict? She is a great shopping buddy and she’s destined to love Target as much as her mommy.

And I’m happy to say that Primrose’s siblings are just as obsessed with her now as they were when they first met her. Everyone wants to hold her at least once every day. But Clementine and Desmond are usually asking multiple times every day. It’s a little exhausting because they usually wake her up, but I don’t want to discourage their eagerness so I usually try to say yes more than I say no.

I know I’ve already written about it here before, but if you didn’t already know, my best friend and I had our babies on the same day. And that just means that we take every opportunity possible to dress our babies in matching outfits and take pictures of them together. It’s like having  twins…but a lot cheaper and easier 😉 Primrose and Sylvia are destined to be best friends forever!

When Primrose was 6 days old, she got her first modeling gig 😉 Raven (Raven Vasquez Photography) took these sweet photos of Primrose for a  June and January photoshoot. I miss this newborn sleepiness!

Our first family photo!

And Primrose’s first “matching family pajamas” pictures (but not her last 😉 ) This was our first time trying Hanna Andersson pjs and everyone has been loving them!

40 weeks in, 2 weeks out.

And more sibling pictures because everyone adores this baby girl.

I can never get enough of newborn stretches!

The first month went entirely too quickly. If only it went as slowly as that last month of pregnancy. You know, when time seems to stand still haha. I took advantage of every moment I could to snuggle her while she napped almost the entire day. Now she’s just about 2 months old and spending a lot more time awake. I miss her being so little but I do love all the smiles that she’s been giving us.

It didn’t take us too long to get adjusted to a new baby in the house. I’m still too nervous to take them all out of the house on my own, but we’re totally rocking it when we’re at home 😉 I’m sure that eventually I’ll work up the courage. But for now, we’re taking it slow.

I’m excited to come back to blogging. It can sometimes be difficult to find the motivation because my only chance to blog is at night, after the kids go to bed, when I’m ready to relax. But I do enjoy keeping up with my blog so I have no plans to stop anytime soon!

Hope you’re having a great week!