Sarah's choosing table: She is wearing the hanbok Mijung gave me while I was pregnant with Anna. The objects on the table are: a book (scholarly pursuits), string (long life), money (wealth), rock (happiness), rocket ship (adventure), paintbrush (she'll be an artist).
She chose the rock (happiness).
Checking out the paintbrush before making a commitment...
Now checking out the money...
Flipping through a Marine Engineering book.
The party is underway.
Some of the kids getting started on taking every single toy in the house out to play.
Sarah looks a little concerned that I'm about to light the cake on fire. Photo by Jaynie
Cake photos by Craig
Sarah is apparently in training for a pie-eating contest, she didn't think she could pick up the cupcake, I guess...
I forgot to take pictures of the cake before it was cut! This is the chocolate cake from the back of the Hershey's cocoa box; also known as "Jaynie's chocolate cake" around here.
These are Billy's Vanilla-Vanilla cupcakes as seen on Martha Stewart (I did a different buttercream frosting though). I'll post recipes for both cakes on the recipe blog.
The kids seemed to enjoy the bubble machine; even Anna was relaxed and comfortable enough to try to catch some.
Sarah wanted to get right to the source of the bubbles.
Matthias is one month younger than Sarah and lives two floors up from us.
We hosted a barbecue for Sarah's first birthday party. We had over forty people at our place and I think it went really well. Sarah did great and even Anna had fun and kept saying she wished the party was still going on after everyone left.
Looks like it was a wonderful birthday party!