Holden's Monster Mash Birthday Bash!

Holden turned ONE on Thursday. To distract myself from the fact that he is getting old, thus, I am too, (Should I have used a semicolon somewhere in there? Please advise), we decided to celebrate with an all out rager of a party. Then I remembered that a) Holden is not such a fan of strangers lately (and by strangers I mean everyone except me, Reo and my mom) and b) I live in an itty bitty condo. So we scaled back to inviting just family, which still kind of had our condo busting at the seams. Given my lack of domestic skills, I am not much of a hostess, but I think it turned out well. And if not? I have a couple more years of practice before Holden actually remembers his party, so no biggie![Some of our guests]

The highlight of the party was supposed to be Holden digging into his birthday cake. Reo was diligent in making sure no one gave any sugar to Holden for his whole first year, so he was sure Holden would tear into the cake like a maniac. Unfortunately for Reo, that was not the case. Holden stared at the cake, licked some frosting off of his finger, and then threw most of it over the side of his highchair. The whole thing was really anticlimactic, actually... He didn't even need a bath after. Not a fan of chocolate, perhaps?
And, because I like to see pictures of food, here is the food/decor. And if you think I made the decorations, you either don't know me very well, or are much too kind. I purchased them from the ever droolworthy website that ALMOST makes it okay that I am not crafty, Etsy. P.S. Holden wore that hat for approximately .5 seconds. It made a cute decoration though!