1 Year Old! (Part 3: The Party)

I worked on his 2 cakes till 2:30 in the morning. I was so sad to cut into them!


He was not all that impressed with my hard work. The cake experience brought him to tears!

Luckily, the cupcakes were a hit with the other kids!






His face in this picture cracks me up!



Daniel was showing him how his new 4-wheeler worked.


He wasn't being very cooperative with picture-taking. I'll have to get pictures from other family members, because the pictures I've got on here are the only family pics I've got.



Max and Zoe Grace
Having fun with his toy from Pa Pa.

He was dressed at the beginning of the party. I took his clothes off for the cake eating (which apparently I could have kept them on) and I really wish I had put them back on, because he's in just a diaper in all the pictures from the rest of the day. He was a little overwhelmed by all the people, but seemed to have a fun time after he warmed up a bit. He never did enjoy the cake, but that's alright. If we thought our house had been taken over by toys before the party, we were wrong. Now the house really is taken over! I don't know where to keep everything! It's still so hard to believe he's ONE! My, how our lives have changed in just ONE year! My friend Kim's little girl just turned one and I am stealing some very quotable words from her. Kim, you said it all too perfect! (She has a girl, so I'm changing it a tad) "Its amazing how fast a year goes by, how fast they change, how you get use to living on less sleep, how you keep learning even though we often think we just figured him out, how our wild nights now include making fools of ourselves to get a laugh, how we don't know what we ever did before him, how your heart can break when he has his first little cold, how I'd rather be no where else than with him, how one little boy can steal your heart instantly, and how life is so much more wonderful now with him in it. We realize he is a gift from God and we couldn't love anything more."