Festivities for Buhba's 1st Birthday

Buhba had his first birthday last week and I have to say that the festivities were a success! I'm so glad that it all worked out, and everyone had fun. However in hindsight, the realistic side of me asks, "really, other than pictures (and video), will Buhba actually remember this day at all?" Well, the answer is obviously "no." However, when Buhba is naughty I will remind him that his mommy stressed herself out over his first birthday party, but would do it all again for her little guy because she would do anything for him. This includes spending way too much time on making a cake, decorations, and food for a party of nine people who came to celebrate with us.

The Decor!
We (and by we I mean, my husband with me bossing him around) decorated the house with a sports theme (if you know my husband, you'd know that this was the only option), complete with signs that said "concessions" in the kitchen, "rest rooms", and "Heath Stadium" on our front door. I also used a picture of Buhba when he was a week old as the center-piece on the table, with Nerf footballs, baseballs, soccer, and basketballs surrounding it. I was pretty happy with how it looked.

The Food!
To top off our sports-themed night, we served appetizers that you'd have at a sports bar: chicken nuggets, wings, mozzerella sticks, fries, pigs-in-a-blanket, and raspberry lemonade. I got a yummy chicken nuggets recipe off of Betty Crocker's website (it's also where I got the idea for my cupcakes!)
http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes.aspx/favorite-chicken-nuggets/ddaea4d6-b3f2-414d-8daa-1d6f410ebe31

The Cake!
As for the cake, I used a football-shaped tin (that I got in February last year, just for this event!), and baked a devil's food cake in it. After that, I sliced the cake horizontally down the middle and filled it with a mixture of caramel, marshmallow fluff, butter, and crushed oreos. Then, I frosted it to make it look like a football. I also made white cupcakes and mixed in chocolate chips into the batter (which was a huge hit!), and frosted the cupcakes to look like soccer, basketball, and baseballs (well, that's what they were supposed to look like anyway!) I covered a piece of cardboard (off of a Huggies' box) with tin foil, then spread white frosting across it. I then put coconut (which was dyed green with food coloring) down over the white frosting to look like grass. I put the cake and cupcakes on top.

Please note, that I am really not normally domestic at all!!! I guess that it's true that mommies will do anything for their kids! The whole time I was doing this, my husband kept saying, "Who are you???! This isn't normal!"

Yes, Buhba's birthday was a success, and now I know why birthday's only come once a year!