Today, I've been a parent for 10 years. A decade!
My little girl is not so little anymore. I'm not so young either.
photo by Lucky Horseshoe Photography
I love that girl. And I don't want her to grow a day older or take another step away from me!
But it's her birthday and I'm not going to cry.
(I did tear up a bit when she got on a giant horse for her first horse riding lesson -her present)
Instead of crying, we're throwing a fantastic cupcake party tomorrow. We're getting out our special birthday banner and she and ten of her best pals are decorating their own cupcakes and making felt cupcake shirts like these:
(we bedazzled a sample shirt)
Each girl is getting a white shirt of their own in these felt bags from the Dollar Spot at Target (they had ornaments on them, we peeled them off and glued felt cupcakes instead!) We're also making bottle cap necklaces and learning how to decorate real cupcakes-to eat, of course.
Of course, we needed some special birthday party announcements!
Thanks Pepper for customizing some delicious birthday invitations for free! If you need some invitations, I highly recommend her!
And, one of my sponsors Party Cupcake Ideas is helping us celebrate! (Do you need cupcake ideas for your parties? This is the place!) They are generously giving away something incredible: a cupcake charm and bracelet from Tiffany's!!! ($200 value).
I may have to break my rules and enter my own giveaway for this one!
Happy 10th Birthday, Honey!
Go, have a look and tell me your favorite kind of cupcakes as your entry.
This giveaway will end soon, don't miss out.
Go, have a look and tell me your favorite kind of cupcakes as your entry.
This giveaway will end soon, don't miss out.
303 comments:
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What fun - and on a horse - YAYAY
Thanks too for the lovely giveaway what fun to treat us too
Cheers
Cathy
I love the details on the baby shower cupcakes, they are so cute. I think I'll be following their blog too now. Thanks for featuring it. Hope your daughter has a wonderful birthday party.
Amber
mopedgirl007@gmail.com
The ducks!
Hey Kristen, as of tomorrow my twins are 20
TWENTY! Man does time fly! So happy B-day to your daughter.
Love the lady bug cupcakes, but the thought of cinnamon intrigues me. :)
Pumpkin ones are so cute...love your blog traciek@sonic.net
Happy birthday to your girl! I would choose the peppermint buttercream cupcakes for me and my daughter loves the ladybug cupcakes! Thank you!
The Hello Kitty cupcakes are my favorite. We are planning a hello kitty bday party for my niece right now :)
loved the baby shower cupcakes...too cute!
What a momentous birthday for you! Have a happy, happy day.
I always love a beautiful tower of cupcakes. The wedding ones are beautiful. So easy to decorate!
Wishing your daughter a very happy birthday! My favorite cupcakes that I would love to make with my daughter, who just turned 8 last month... are the cute cat cupcakes.
micaela6955 at msn dot com
the barrel of monkeys cupcakes are too cute!!!! Hope your girl has a great double digit day!
Happy birthday to your daughter. My Son turns 10 on Tues (12th). We are having a boys only Wii and DS party.
Loved the guess the game cupcakes.
Happy Birthday to your sweet daughter! My daughter just turned 13. I love the Princess cupcake designs
tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com
I just love cupcakes. I've been wanting to make rainbow cupcakes, but those with the strawberries on top look wonderful.
I love these! The periodic table is amazing! I would enjoy sharing that with some of my students!
I loved the candy marshmallow cupcakes.
WHat wonderful ideas for a Birthday Party-I am looking for cupcake ideas for my daughters birthday in May and I have to say I love the yellow goldfish-they crack me up. Happy Birthday to your daughter!
Tress
My favorite cupcake was the candy corn. Such a cute idea!
My little guy is going to be four soon!! He really liked the Star Wars and Spiderman cupcakes!
My favorite is the Teddy Graham at the Beach cupcake. Too cute!
I love the 80s cupcakes and the butterfly cupcakes
Happy Birthday to your precious daughter! My favorite one was the 21st Birthday Cupcake tower. Love her website for cupcake ideas! Thanks Kristen!
eswhiteside@bellsouth.net
I just love the piggy cupcakes! Adorable!!
Happy birthday to your eldest!
Thanks for the opportunity to win this great giveaway.
Heather
What a great party idea!
My favorite are chocolate with vanilla frosting....but only store bought! haha
I loved the bug cupcakes! Well, I loved them all...but those were adorable!
Aww, happy birthday to your daughter! As for the cupcakes - I LOVE red velvet! :)
My daughter wants a periodic table of cupcakes for her birthday now! But my favorite would be the rubber duckies cupcakes, made with white cake and vanilla frosting dyed blue to be a pond.
John at darrows dot us
What a fantastic birthday party! My fave cupcakes are the ladybugs! SO CUTE!
Any of the baby shower cupcakes!!
I like the strawberry heart anniversary cupcake. Simple, tasty, and practical. Our seventh will be this year!
Holy Cow! Did anyone see the Princess Cupcakes? Whoa! They would be a hit at our house!
Happy Happy Big 10 Bday! Yippee!!
Holy Cow! Did anyone see the Princess Cupcakes? Whoa! They would be a hit at our house!
Happy Happy Big 10 Bday! Yippee!!
Red velvet peppermint. Mmmm
The game cupcakes are hilarious!!
I like cupcakes that have an equal height of icing as they do cake. With sprinkles.
I saw some very cute pig cupcakes on the Party Cupcakes Idea site that I'd love to try! Growing up every year for the Super Bowl we'd always go to a Cajun Cochon de Lait (basically, a pig roast) and those would have been great cupcakes to have there!
happy birthday to YOU, momma! i had quite a rough time of if when my oldest turned 10 last spring (just days before my youngest -- #5-- turned 1. it was a rough week!)
i think my favorite cupcakes (although it was tough to pick) were the nerd ones. i think i might even be able to pull those off and i'm nothin' special in the kitchen, let me tell you!
enjoy your 10-year-old. man, time sure flies!
blessings,
shana
Love the barrel of monkey cupcake toppers! Even I could do that.
Chocolate...or Funfetti. It's a tie.
Happy Birthday to your 10 year old, and congrats on a decade of parenting!
Thanks for directing me to such a great site! I'm hosting my best friend's baby shower in a couple of months and am excited by the great baby shower cupcake ideas.
Happy Birthday!
I love Hello Kitty, always have. We had a Japanese exchange student in '79 who brought us alot of Hello Kitty merchandise about 5 years before it hit the states--I turned out to be a trend setter! Love the cupcakes!
mmm...cupcakes..caramel with caramel icing (does anybody else remember this kind of box mix? I have great memories of warm caramel cake)
Or anything w/ a creamy center or chocolate..I won't be picky!
Hmmm The red velvet peppermint cupcakes and the rocky road cupcakes are a tie for me!
Congrats on 10 years!
10! Congrats on both of you for making it this far! :) I gotta say those baby shower cupcakes were adorable!!
Happy Birthday to your girl! I have two 10 year olds and can't believe they're 10 already!
I looked at the site and love the Hello Kitty cupcakes. So cute!
Teresa
What a fun party!!! Everything is adorable for your special birthday girl!
I like chocolate cupcakes w/ vanilla frosting:)
cyclona66(at)aol(dot)com
my oldest entered her 'double digit midget' years a few months ago! It was a fun birthday...and I made puppy cupcakes for it...so in honor of 10 year olds I choose the dog cupcakes!!
But I also really like for the upcoming Valentine's holiday the chocolate strawberry heart cupcake!!
rachel at bartlettlearningsolutions dot com
I would love to try the Peppermint Buttercream cupcakes! They sound divine!
Crossing my fingers for a win this time!
Angie
Happy Birthday to your dear daughter!!
I only wish I could be 10 again just to be able to really cherish everything!
My fave of their cupcakes are the baby shower themed ones
:)
I have to admit... I never met a cupcake I didn't like! But the Peppermint Buttercream Cupcakes sound super delish!
Thank you for introducing me to this new to me cupcake site!
And congratulations on your decade of parenting. I am on my 2 1/2 yr and I hopr I can make it to 10!
I like the game ones especially the simon and pac-man ones! Honestly though I don't think that I turn down cupcakes very often no matter what kind...
Cute! Happy Birthday!
The baby shower cup cakes are adorable, but I definitely don't need them.
tia
I LOVE the game theme cupcakes. And while I couldn't figure most of them out...I really loved the Simon game and the pacman one. These guys are amazing!!
Thanks for another great giveaway.
Liz2@iname.com
Too cute!! They are all adorable...hard to pick just one! I really like the pool party cupcakes with the teddy grahams and gobstoppers. Since we live in AZ, I could do those quite a bit!
Happy Birthday to your dear daughter! I hope she has a wonderful party and enjoys every minute of it!
Our favorite cupcake in our house is a deep dark chocolate cake with girly pink icing. I plan on making them again for Valentines day.
Take care!
Johanna
Happy Birthday Sweet Girl. My oldest/youngest just turned 5 and there is nothing I can do to stop them from getting older. Such a bittersweet moment.
I love the games cupcakes. I like that they are unique and bring out a certain nostalgia.
It's amazing how fast our kids grow. The orchid wedding cupcakes are so cute. It would be a great change from the standard cake.
Hillary
indeelady@yahoo.com
Being the mom of 2 boys who LOVE LOVE Star Wars and Legos, Im going to have to go with the Star Wars Cupcakes.
Happy 10th birthday!!
I love the thank you cupcakes
I sooo love the sunflower cupcakes. I saw some at Harry's market the other day, but they wanted $4.00 a piece for them :(
I love the party hat cupcakes and the website is adorable!
chrissiealex (at) yahoo (dot) com
oh i love the Teddy Graham at the Beach cupcakes...they are so cute!
Happy Birthday!
I'll be makeing the Starwars Cupcakes for my husbands B-Day!http://partycupcakeideas.com/stormtrooper-star-wars-lego-cupcakes/
Thanks for the idea!
My "big" kid is turning 10 this month as well. We are trying to plan a "mad scientist" birthday for him. Between pinching myself that this can't be true....my baby is 10!
I am all over the bug cupcakes! How cool are they?!
What a cute idea! I am sure the cupcake party will be a big hit! I think the vegan cupcakes sound interesting. I have never heard of such a thing!
The cupcakes with miniature baby items were adorable.
spiced.chai@hotmail.com
I love your blog and happy 10th to your beautiful daughter. I am very intrigued by the tiramisu cupcake-yummy! And, I would most likely get them all to myself as hubs doesn't care for the espresso taste in tiramisu-bonus!
I definitely like the chocolate covered strawberry cupcakes! Happy Birthday to your daughter!!! My son just turned 10 in August. It goes too fast doesn't it?!?!?
Stacey
smmwellington@yahoo.com
Happy Birthday to your daughter. My youngest is going to be 19 in Feb. time flies.
I liked all of the cupcakes but I really liked the baby shower ones.
Did you see how cute the baby shower cupcakes were?
Those are the cutest I saw there...but in RL I like yellow with chocolate icing best. :)
This is the sweetest giveaway of 2010 and the bug cupcakes on their site are adorable!
I love the 'gone fishing' cupcakes and the 'fish cupcakes' just the idea I was looking for! so many are tooo cute!
Happy Birthday!
What a cute idea, I love it! I personally love the black bottom cupcakes.
Aww! What a great theme! And such creative activities.
I'm a carrot cake girl with butter cream icing. Traditional, I know, but you can't go wrong with a classic.
The gone fishing...too cute!
The gone fishing...too cute!
Happy double digits- my first is turning 10 in March and I am right with you! I love the ladybug cupcake, but if someone were to send me to cupcake heaven it would be with carrot cake and cream cheese icing. Delicious giveaway!
Happy Birthday to your daughter. I love the felt t-shirts.
Love all those cupcakes, but the baby shower ones are so sweet. I'm not so creative, but our just-turned 3yr old had a cupcake birthday cake where I made the cupcakes into a caterpillar with the first cupcake as the head and the rest with legs. :)
It's my baby's 2nd birthday tomm- and she loves cupcakes!! We're doing Hello Kitty- so that is my pick for the giveaway (wow!) and anything with chocolate gets my vote!! Love it & THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Happy Birthday Zoie Senait!
How many kinds of cupcakes could there possibly be? I love the wedding ones, elegant with the gerbera daisies especially. My friend had cupcakes at her wedding, such a good idea!
Wow, what a fun site! I saw the words peppermint and buttercream in the the same sentence. Yum!
The decorations on the Christmas cupcakes are divine.
We LOVE Hello Kitty here, so I'd have to go with that as a favorite. There are so many inspiring ideas, the ladybug is super cute.
I will cry if i win this. My favorite cupcakes were the candy corn cupcakes.
Anniversary cupcakes!
I like the Puppy Dog cupcakes...but i laughed when I saw the Lady Gaga cupcake!
Happy Birthday to your daughter! Sounds like a fun party you are planning.
Happy Birthday to your daughter!! Mine is 15 months and just can't imagine who she'll be at 10!!
Loved the hamburger cupcakes...how creative!!!
Happy Birthday to your not-so-little one! What a special time. (My "little girl" is 13...)
As for the cupcakes, I loved the wedding cupcakes. I'm getting married in May, and my H2B are using cupcakes instead of a wedding cake. Can't wait!!
I looove the Frog Cupcakes! My nephews would love these. :)
First of all, happy birthday to your sweet girl!!! The birthday party sounds like a great time! I liked the candy corn cupcake and the RIP cupcakes! I laughed out loud at the Lady Gaga cupcake. Too funny! Is it rude to say good luck to me?
Mine turned 10 in August and I think ive been having a midlife crisis since... cant believe how time flies... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Wow-10 years! What a special birthday! Oh my, those cupcakes were adorable - I love the baby shower cupcakes! So fun!
Happy Birthday to your daughter! How exciting :-)
My favorite cupcake from the site was the 40th birthday tombstone cupcakes. My husband will be 40 next month so I'll keep it in mind. However, when I turned 40 last August if he would have given me those cupcakes I would have shot him.
But the best cupcake I've ever had is called "Velvet Painting" from the best cupcake establishment on the planet . . www.cupcakejones.net. Here's how they describe the little beauty:
Red velvet cake filled with vanilla bean pastry cream topped with cream cheese icing, and a hand candied rose petal
Yellow cake with white chocolate icing. Yummmm!
I loved the Celebrity cupcakes. The Steel Magnolias one would be perfect for a movie night. Just amazing and Happy Birthday to your sweet girl!!!
I love the strawberry heart cupcake! Hmm...how to make it gluten-free...
I'm expecting a little girl in May, so the baby shower cupcakes are my favorite! :) Such a cute cupcake charm, too!
chasityann_03@hotmail.com
The ladybug cupcake is my favorite!!
I think the game cupcakes are so neat! What a ton of work, I wonder if they had a difficult time thinking of 100 games!
Happy Happy birthday to your little girl, her party looks so fun.
brandie08 at yahoo dot com
They all look awesome - but the choc chip....yeah!
Wow, that is a great cupcake site! I love the Tiramisu cupcakes - they look so good!
Oh my goodness the Pig, Ladybug, Frog and Fish Cupcakes are adorable. I think the animals would be great for a child's birthday party too!
simple.....chocolate with chocolate icing. the fish cupcakes are adorable.
what a wonderful cupcake site
wirefox1@cox.net
i love the spring wedding flower cupcakes... cool idea!
I have to admit that the edward cullen cupcake face cracked me up....too funny!
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