Pierson’s 1st “Bee” Day was Bee-yond fun. So you caught me, I planned his party 6 months early . . . I am a bit of a overachiever when it comes to being prepared and planned ahead of time!<\/div>\n

(The Bee Day invitation and coordinating package<\/a> is available in our shop!)<\/div>\n

\u00a0#1 Priority – Invitation:<\/strong> Had to have a cute way to get the “buzz” out about his party! Many more designs to come – if you are interested in the bee party invite, let us know!<\/p>\n

It reads:<\/p>\n

Have you heard the buzz?<\/p>\n

Pierson is going to bee 1!<\/p>\n

Join us at the Anders Hive<\/p>\n

for Pierson’s Bee-day celebration<\/p>\n

Address\/date etc<\/p>\n

It’ll bee the sweetest place to bee!<\/p>\n

Buzz the Queen Bee to RSVP<\/p>\n

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Bee-bee-que and Bee Hive Cake to be served<\/p>\n

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#2 Priority: Outfit:<\/span><\/p>\n

I appliqued a bumble bee on top of a black\/white gingham jon jon that I made for Pierson. The lining is a soft yellow and white plaid and it has white pique piping. The yellow buttons have little white polka dots going around the circumference.<\/p>\n

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I also made him a bib (for the cake mess that was about to occur). I used a yellow hand towel and cut a neck and sewed in a t-shirt collar. Then I appliqued the number 1 in black\/white gingham to match the rest of his get-up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I almost forgot Priority #2.5 . . . Cotton’s outfit.<\/span> Yes, my dog had a bumble bee costume on. He looked so pitiful, but I loved it. He was just humping<\/span> stinging and buzzing kids all over the house, left and right. He looks so sad, but I think he was happy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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#3 Priority: Favor (of course): <\/span>I decided to use empty honey bear containers for a “sweet” part of the kiddie favors. I filled them to the top with Earth’s Best Organic Smiley Cereal for the babies and Tootsie rolls and Butterfingers for the older kids. (black and yellow packaging was key!).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Then, I topped each honey bear off with a party hat that had paper shred for the pom pon, ribbon around the base, slapped the kids name on the hat, and put a little personalized sticker on the front of the honey bear that said “Thanks for Bee-ing so sweet . . . Pierson’s 1st Bee Day – 1.30.2009”<\/p>\n
Use our CUSTOM logos to personalize and make all your detailed party favors more special!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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For the toy part of the favor, I wrapped up books for the children. The babies each got 2 chunky board books (by Bright Baby), and the older kids got a book by Eric Carle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I used the most fabulous wrapping paper, houndstooth!!! Black and white. I found that and almost had a panic attack<\/span><\/span> (I am being completely serious) at Hobby Lobby over Christmas. I mean, how perfect?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Each gift had a circle giant tag with the child’s name personalized. It says “Thanks for buzzing by to bee here for Pierson’s first bee day”. Ok, I went a little overboard using “bee” in place of “be”. Wrapped with yellow and black raffia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Baby books (above). Toddler books were larger (below)<\/p>\n
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Look at the happy bears just waiting to be handled by all the kids that were there!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The centerpieces were the honey bears, too!<\/p>\n
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Then, of course, I had to send home a sweet confection for the road. I know<\/span> most people opened it on the car ride home and devoured those sweet little bees!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Like the glass shaped hive (courtesy, Kristin) that we put bumble bee stickers on. Thanks, Kristin!<\/p>\n
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#4 Priority: Food:<\/span> We had an array of foods, theme appropriate, of course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Menu:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bee-bee-que (with buns if the guests wanted it on a sandwich)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Cole Slaw<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Baked Bee-ns (Kristin’s famous)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Fruit cups w\/ honey yogurt dip<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bumble bee Nectar (Lemonade punch)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bee-r (J found the most perfect beer, it had a yellow wrap w\/ a huge bumble bee on the front of the bottle!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bee and Hive Sugar cookies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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P.Bee Honey bees (can’t even describe – yum)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bee-bee-que. Not the Midwestern type BBQ. (When I first moved south, I thought bbq was when you put chicken on the BBQ. Totally different down south . . . in a better, fattier kind of way)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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My mom and I were up the night prior until 1 am shredding this dreaded pork butt BBQ. I had never made it, ever. We decided to go all out and do it ourselves. Bought 30 pounds of pork ass and roasted that pig right up . . . all day long. By 2 am it was shredded and ready to go. We split it into 2 crock pots – one was plain (just some vinegar sauce to keep it moist) and the other had the mustard based sauce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Turned out scrumptious! We had 3 sauces (in honey bear containers, of course). Red sauce from Mac’s BBQ in Charlotte, Mustard from Maurice’s BBQ, and The Q-Shack vinegar based.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Bee and Hive Sugar Cookies<\/p>\n
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Priority # . . . Well, lets start back at 1: CAKE<\/span><\/p>\n
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I was bound and determined to not have to buy that $40 Williams-Sonoma cake pan. That would have been too easy. So I did a 3 layer cake, with a dome cake (from Jeffrey’s previous birthday where we had sports balls cakes) on the top. It was actually very simple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr. Oeteker Organic cake mix, my favorite. Layered chocolate\/vanilla\/chocolate\/vanilla so when that hive was cut into it looked like a striped bee!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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The bumble bees on top were chocolate covered almonds with almond wings and yellow frosting stripes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Placed the cake on a black\/white Houndstooth covered cutting board. Yes, the houndstooth that I almost had a panic attack about at Hobby Lobby. (I won’t tell you how many rolls of that paper I purchased that year. Hey, its an investment)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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I also made a small hive cake for Pierson to crush. J’s mom, Vicki, had her birthday the day of the party (Jan 31!) as well, so we<\/span> I made her a cake of her own!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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To my mom, Kathy, for taking my orders . . . some call me “host-zilla”<\/span>.<\/p>\n
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With all the chaos, this was the only family photo we GOT! Oh well! There is always next year.<\/p>\n
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J’s mom was the birthday girl, too.<\/p>\n
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The guest of honor. Pierson Burke. Otherwise known as Peanut. (He was smiling at Auntie Claire)<\/p>\n
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May the bees be with you.<\/p>\n
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