Wednesday, January 11, 2012

First birthday Planning

I know I have been MIA recently on my facebook page and it's been forever since I posted on this blog but I figured it was time to update you ladies on what I have been up to.  

I recently traveled to Mumbai, India so my daughter could finally meet with her great grandmothers. They enjoyed interacting with her and loved all the time she was able to spend with both of them.  It was a three week LONG trip in all the heat and craziness of meeting with friends and family I hadn't seen in years!

After India, I went back to work part time for Johns Hopkins.  It has been an interesting time, working as well as balancing it all out with spending time with my little girl! I'm not sure I've found my happy balance just as yet! However, I am excited about planning my daughter's birthday!! 

My daughter, Suri, is turning ONE in March! My husband and I finally decided what we were going to do for her party! Never thought party planning would be this stressful!

We decided to have it at our house and invite all our friends and family to celebrate Suri turning One.  First things first, I knew I needed to nail down a theme for her party! We had planned to have a photo shoot for her prior to her birthday so that we could use the pictures for her invitations.  We met with the very talented Abhishek Pandya from Pandya Photography in NJ and he took some amazing pictures of our little girl.  Below are a few sneak peaks that he shared with us.



Next to have done is invitations! It's already January 10th and I have nothing finalized! Before we could finalize the invitations, I looked online for ideas on themes.  My husband finally found a  great link to a blog where the very talented Stacey Elle-Belle planed her daughter Liv's birthday using the One year old in a flash theme. We loved what she did with the pictures, colors, desert table but our favorites were the photo booth and the time capsule ideas.  I have since been trying to incorporate her ideas, tweaking them some, to plan Suri's first birthday! I would ideally love to follow everything she did, lets see how good I can be with it :)