Gio's First Birthday- Halloween and Pumpkins!

Last week we celebrated my little pumpkin's first birthday!  It was a sweet day celebrating my baby love.  We went with a Halloween theme (poor kid will have to deal with that one most likely forever) with a focus on pumpkins.  Essentially, we decorated the house with our usual Halloween decorations, and bought a small patches worth of pumpkins and partially themed the food.  It was fun!  Here are pictures of the details!

The top of his cake from Della Fattoria

The food table- before the food was out.

My mom's awesome goodwill find!

My awesome dollar tree find!

The food table with appetizers

I was super proud of that pumpkin cheese ball. Recipe here.

A pinterest find- carve bread into the shape of a coffin for your spinach dip!
I used black icing for the lettering.

The dessert table, cake from Della Fattoria was chocolate with salted caramel buttercream... Yummy!

My sister made this amazing snake sandwich. There were several variations included but the basic premise is meat and cheese baked into bread dough and then shaped and painted like a snake. Amazing.

Gio's pumpkin shaped smash cake by me!

Yummy!  Trader Joes Vanilla Cake mix with cream cheese frosting.