Justin's 1 Year Old Birthday Party

We celebrated Justin's 1 year old birthday a little bit late (cuz I was trying to find a best date for everyone.  I prefer to have party or attend party on Saturday but grandma usually works on Saturday and uncle too).  However, recently Uncle Dennis schedule changed (off on Tues and Wed).  I invited uncles and aunties.  My sister, nephew, and niece couldn't come because my sister can't handle over an hour drive and kids have to attend school the next day. 

Eric and I didn't sleep the whole night preparing for the party.  Although we didn't invite many people to come, we tried our best to prepare for everything.  I even went shopping at Wal-Mart at 2:30 am and then went to Winco too.  I did a "LORAX" theme.  Justin's new favorite movie is Lorax.  He can even say the word "Lorax".  I only invited few friends (the ones I'm sure they would like to come).   I didn't want to just invite everyone (some people probably don't want to be invited). 

I didn't have enough of time to prepare everything that I wanted to do.  I didn't get to finish my Lorax pinata.  I wanted to do stir-fried noodles, baked Madeleines, make mango pudding and etc but didn't get the chance to. 

I designed my own cupcake toppers on Avery.com.  I asked Vicky to print them out for me but she couldn't get the color printer to print out correctly.  I ended up going to FedEx.  I baked some cupcakes and then put the cupcake toppers on them.

I bought wafer sticks.  My idea was using it as a stick which cotton candy can be on the top as "Truffula tree".  I used them to decorate the cake that I baked.

Party Favors
I made "Truffula" pencils (painted white with acrylic paint, drew black marks as the tree marks, made yarn poms poms and brushed them so that they are fluffy like the Truffula trees). 

Eric suggested to use hole puncher to make a hole on the Mason jar lid.  I got this idea from Pinterest.  Some people used Mason Jars as party favors (pour drinks in them). 

I bought cotton candy machine from Kohls.  Vicky was having fun making cotton candies. 

Eric started bbq pork ribs early in the morning (took 6 hrs).